Tonight I watched another MAXDAYS 2025 session. This one focused on Exploring Instagram with text and image analysis. Justyna Okrucinska has many roles: they are a Ph.D. student, work with MAXQDA, and train others. For this study, Okrucinska used the tool Web Collector and installed in MAXQDA. This allows you to download text and images […]
Tamara Pataki from Verbi Software spoke about discourse analysis with MAXQDA. They are also completing a Ph.D. at the central European University. Pataki started by stating that discourse analysis with MAXQDA helps analysis but is not a method. Tamaki shared that Bennet 2015 explained that constructivist ontology and epistemology can be aligned with the use […]
I continued watching the KBase Educators Orientation from December 2024. Ellen Dow from KBase provided an overview of the narratives in the KBase Educators Org. Dow shared how students, for example, can import data from other narratives. This is a feature I did not know about! RAST and Prokka are two annotation tools available. Dow […]
The London Calling 2024 studio interview session I watched tonight was about rapid tumor classification. Zoe McDougall spoke to Simon Paine from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. Paine is a neuropathologist and analyzes samples to predict patient outcomes. They are excited about discovering ways to classify tumors using Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The […]
Tonight I started an EPI2ME Metagenomics workflow to analyze our two 16S runs for the metagenomics class. I also watched the Nanopore Learning Human Genome Sequencing and Analysis course video on “Data Analysis: EPI2ME Labs Introduction.” Anthony Doran, a member of the Technical Services Team with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, described EPI2ME Labs as a “point-and-click” […]
Stephanie Yu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore (2023) on “Long cell-free DNA: the beginning of a new era in liquid biopsy.” Cell-free DNA is released into circulation after cell lysis. Their group is interested in novel molecular diagnostics based on cell-free DNA in […]
Tonight I watched a recent JMBE Live session I missed with Marcos Garcia-Ojeda on Ddecember 2, 2022. They described their adaptations to online lab sessions. The title was “Microbiology Labs with Virtual and Hands-On Parts.” Garcia-Ojeda published this work with colleagues in the JMBE 2022 special issue. Garcia-Ojeda explained that there are several challenges to […]
I started watching poster presentations from ASMCUE 2022. The first one with a video recording was entitled “Piecing Complement Together with LEGO bricks: Impacts on Interest, Confidence, and Learning in the Immunology Classroom,” presented by Joshua Baty, Suzanne Bohlson, Mallary Greenlee-Wacker, and Heather Bruns. Their research question was: does use of a 3D model help […]
Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference online session “The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Reading Strategies in the College Classroom” by Jiyoung Kim from Fayetteville State University and Trela Anderson from the National Defense University. They assessed metacognitive reading strategies in the courses they teach. The data is from the reading across the curriculum program at Fayetteville […]