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1. Biodiversity research using digitized, internet-based natural history collections

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

   By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Collections based research is a critical tool for organismal biology and biodiversity research. Yet natural history collections have a complicated past. This multi-class module examines the...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1553/?v=1

2. Mosquito Vector Ecology of the East Coast using NEON

   16 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Courtney Campany¹, David Kang²

   1. Shepherd University 2. Cornell University

   This data module examines the relationship between mosquito vector ecology and climate across the east coast of the United States. The module is designed to merge core concepts in ecology with...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1552/?v=1

3. A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology

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

   By Karen Cangialosi

   Keene State College

   A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology was curated and written entirely by students, and mostly edited by students at Keene State College that were enrolled in the course taught by Dr. Karen...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1507/?v=1

4. An Introduction to Biodiversity Databases and Specimen Images

   04 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Amanda Fisher

   Long Beach State University

   In this module, students will be introduced to some biodiversity data resources and how to search for and download herbarium specimen images. They will be asked to think critically about the...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1493/?v=1

5. Bacteria Transformation

   02 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Matthew Zelisko¹, Kimberly Anderson

   University of Houston

   TeachEngineering resource in which students construct paper recombinant plasmids to simulate the methods genetic engineers use to create modified bacteria.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1492/?v=1

6. Building creatures with the central dogma of biology

   02 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Skyer

   National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology

   Activity that demonstrates how nucleotide changes can affect phenotypes

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1445/?v=1

7. Lesson VI - The Community Science Project

   19 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

   1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

   Genome Solver's Community Science Project was developed as a way to use the skills taught in the previous lessons. We're asking members of the community to provide instances of potential phage...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/859/?v=2

8. Teaching Population Dynamics with Data and HHMI BioInteractive

   16 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Abby Kula¹, Kristine Grayson²

   1. Mount St. Mary’s University 2. University of Richmond

   Presented at NABT 2019, we demonstrate how the Population Dynamics Click & Learn resource can be customized for any organism - using the Lionfish invasion as an example

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1474/?v=1

9. Earth Analytics in Python Course

   01 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Leah Wasser¹, Jenny Palomino¹, Chris Holdgraf²

   1. Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder 2. University of California, Berkeley

   Earth analytics is an intermediate, multidisciplinary course that addresses major questions in Earth science and teaches students to use the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1437/?v=1

10. Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly

    29 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Eric Cooper

    Hartwick College

    This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1453/?v=2

11. Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly

    28 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Eric Cooper

    Hartwick College

    This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1453/?v=1

12. A Curious Display

    28 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Margaret Waterman¹, Brandon Call, Sandi Connelly², Kristin Jenkins³, Sam Catherine Johnston⁴, Vedham Karpakakunjaram⁵, Viet Le⁶, Hayley Orndorf⁷, Melissa Skyer⁸, Barbara Spiecker⁹

    1. Southeast Missouri State University 2. Rochester Institute Of Technology 3. BioQUEST 4. CAST Inc. 5. Montgomery College 6. Rochester Institute of Technology 7. University of Pittsburgh 8. National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology 9. Oregon State University

    Case study on genetically modified organisms

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1452/?v=1

13. Intro videos and terminology for GMOs, Transcription, Translation

    28 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sandi Connelly

    Rochester Institute Of Technology

    Compiled resources around GMOs and protein production including vocabulary, animations, videos, and games

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1446/?v=1

14. Gelin’: Gel Electrophoresis Simulation

    24 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Beyond Benign

    Students will understand how DNA is separated into a fingerprint by using a chromatography activity to simulate gel electrophoresis.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1448/?v=1

15. Complete Set of Lessons

    23 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    The Genome Solver Project began as a way to teach faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics - no coding or scripting. These Lessons also work well in the undergraduate classroom, culminating with...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/860/?v=2

16. Lesson V - Phylogenetics

    22 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson V is an introduction to Phylogenetics.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/858/?v=2

17. Lesson VII - Synteny

    22 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Gaurav Arora¹, Anne Rosenwald², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Gallaudet University 2. Georgetown University 3. Cabrini University

    The lesson teaches about synteny or the order of genes along a chromosome, which is useful for looking at orthologous genes between two species or strains.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1414/?v=2

18. Get Started With GIS in Open Source Python Workshop

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

    By Leah Wasser¹, Jenny Palomino¹, Joe McGlinchy¹

    Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder

    There are a suite of powerful open source python libraries that can be used to work with spatial data. Learn how to use geopandas, rasterio and matplotlib to plot and manipulate spatial data in...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1441/?v=1

19. Introduction to Version Control and Git Workshop

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

    By Leah Wasser, Max Joseph

    Learn how to use version control with Git to work collaboratively and back up your work.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1443/?v=1

20. Writing Clean Code in R Workshop

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

    By Max Joseph¹, Leah Wasser

    Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder

    When working with data, you often spend the most amount of time cleaning your data. Learn how to write more efficient code using the tidyverse in R.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1442/?v=1