Conveners
Education
- Shelby Scott (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) is an NSF funded project with the mission to improve learning opportunities for all students enrolled in undergraduate biology courses by reflecting the centrality of quantitative approaches in modern biology. We will provide an overview of the QUBES project, then discuss the Quantitative Modelling assessment QM BUGS. The...
While there are many opinions on what mathematical modelling in biology is, in essence, modelling is a mathematical tool which allows consequences to logically follow from a set of assumptions. Only when this tool is applied appropriately, it may allow to understand importance of specific mechanisms/assumptions in biological processes. Mathematical modelling can be less useful or even...