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EMBRIO Team Receives Innovation Hub Grant

January 18, 2023

Innovation Hub Grant. “Design and Instruction of a Team-Based Transdisciplinary Cross-Listed Course in Computational Understanding of Biological Systems and Data.” EMBRIO PIs: Brent Ladd, Janice Evans, Alejandra Magana, Elsje Pienaar. Funded via Office of the Provost, Purdue’s Lilly Endowment award for Transformative Education 2.0. Project period 01/23 – 8/23.

 

Abstract:

Computational techniques are so central to the understanding of life that the next modern synthesis in biology will be driven by mathematical, computational, and statistical methods. Thus, biological training must involve computational thinking as a cross-cutting practice for connecting the natural and engineered worlds. This Innovation Hub team leads development of a project-based interdisciplinary course for undergraduate and incoming graduate students in both biology and biomedical engineering that will prepare them for collaborative discovery-making across biomedicine. The course will develop students’ ability to quantitatively and computationally analyze biological systems to understand the rules of life. Specifically, the course will integrate experimental concepts in biology with quantitative analysis, modeling, and prediction, and thus directly address the documented challenge that biology students are often math-averse. The expected impact is that students will increase their confidence in (and eventual adoption of) quantitative and computational biology.

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