Resources (1-18 of 18)

1. The Edge Effect

   03 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sean McNamara¹, Kiersten Newtoff², Kelly Livernoche², Allison Bell, Jeff Leips³, Gina Wesley², William Gretes⁴

   1. Community College of Baltimore County 2. Montgomery College 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County 4. Howard Community College

   This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4292/?v=1

2. Linear Regression (Excel) and Cellular Respiration for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics

   03 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Irene Corriette¹, Beatriz Gonzalez¹, Daniela Kitanska², Henriette Mozsolits², Sheela Vemu³

   1. Santa Fe College 2. Passaic County Community College 3. Waubonsee Community College

   Students typically find linear regression analysis of data sets in a biology classroom challenging. These activities could be used in a Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Statistics course. The...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2811/?v=1

3. Thinking deeply about quantitative analysis: Building a Biologist's Toolkit

   26 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sarah Bray¹, Paul Duffin¹, James D. Wagner¹

   Transylvania University

   Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education encouraged faculty to focus on core concepts and competencies in undergraduate curriculum. We created a sophomore-level course, Biologists'...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2575/?v=1

4. Ethics in Synthetic Biology

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lisa Scheifele¹, Fran Sandmeier

   Loyola University Maryland

   This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1396/?v=3

5. Ethics in Synthetic Biology

   30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lisa Scheifele

   Loyola University Maryland

   This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1396/?v=2

6. Interconnections in The Open Ecosystem

   11 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Karen Cangialosi

   Keene State College

   Presentation on open education and open science given as the keynote address at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1401/?v=1

7. Teaching introductory bioinformatics with Jupyter notebook-based active learning

   17 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Colin Dewey

   University of Wisconsin - Madison

   Presentation on teaching introductory bioinformatics with Jupyter notebook-based active learning at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1399/?v=1

8. Data Science as a Superpower

   15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Amelia McNamara

   Presentation on data science education given at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1397/?v=1

9. Ethics in Synthetic Biology

   15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lisa Scheifele

   Loyola University Maryland

   This collection of four activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in genome synthesis and gene editing. This resource was developed as part of NSF Award...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1396/?v=1

10. Should we synthesize a human genome?

    15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    Two articles introducing the Human Genome Project-Write and asking questions about the ethics of the project.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1395/?v=1

11. Ethics of Metabolic engineering

    15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in metabolic engineering and the potential for "home-brew" morphine. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the linked...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1394/?v=1

12. Ethics in synthetic genomics

    15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in genome engineering and the synthesis of potentially infectious viruses. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the linked...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1393/?v=1

13. Ethics of Gene Editing

    15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in gene editing. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the two linked articles. Also included is the grading rubric.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1392/?v=1

14. Biobyte 4 - The role of data science principles and practices in undergraduate biology

    15 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sam S Donovan

    University of Pittsburgh

    This short activity was an effort to launch a community conversation around the interface of data science principles and practices and undergraduate biology education. A variety of resources,...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1390/?v=1

15. Summer 2019 Biobytes

    14 Aug 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sam S Donovan

    University of Pittsburgh

    This series includes the four Biobytes that were piloted at the 2019 BioQUEST / QUBES Summer Workshop titled, “Evolution of Data in the Classroom: From Data to Data Science”.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1391/?v=1

16. Data Analysis for the Life Sciences

    23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Rafael A Irizarry¹, Michael I Love¹

    Harvard University

    An online stats book written completely in R

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/841/?v=1

17. The effects of Avian Malaria On Pigeon Fledging Growth

    19 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Qingxia Li¹, Lauren Gollahon², Tony Weisstein³, Xinyao Yang⁴

    1. Fisk University 2. Texas Tech University 3. Truman State University 4. University of Missouri

    Poster on a case that combined Biology and Statistics in a student research project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/603/?v=2

18. The effects of Avian Malaria On Pigeon Fledging Growth

    30 May 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Qingxia Li¹, Lauren Gollahon², Tony Weisstein³, Xinyao Yang⁴

    1. Fisk University 2. Texas Tech University 3. Truman State University 4. University of Missouri

    Poster on a case that combined Biology and Statistics in a student research project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/603/?v=1