TY - GEN
T1 - Real-time and turn-based biology online experimentation
AU - Hossain, Zahid
AU - Chung, Alice M.
AU - Riedel-Kruse, Ingmar H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/4/15
Y1 - 2015/4/15
N2 - Being able to perform versatile biology experiments online would be very beneficial for research and education. Currently no such platforms exist in the life sciences. We have developed two such platforms, which are optimized for biological phenomena at the seconds and hours time scale, respectively: (1) A fully automated realtime biology lab that enables direct online interactions with phototactic microorganisms (euglena) that are long-term stably cultured in a microfluidic chip; (2) A turn-based biology lab that enables the spatio-temporal chemical stimulation of slime molds (physarum) in a petri-dish over multiple days. We compare the utility and affordance of both platforms, especially regarding use in online education.
AB - Being able to perform versatile biology experiments online would be very beneficial for research and education. Currently no such platforms exist in the life sciences. We have developed two such platforms, which are optimized for biological phenomena at the seconds and hours time scale, respectively: (1) A fully automated realtime biology lab that enables direct online interactions with phototactic microorganisms (euglena) that are long-term stably cultured in a microfluidic chip; (2) A turn-based biology lab that enables the spatio-temporal chemical stimulation of slime molds (physarum) in a petri-dish over multiple days. We compare the utility and affordance of both platforms, especially regarding use in online education.
KW - biology
KW - biotic processing unit (BPU)
KW - education
KW - online experimentation
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U2 - 10.1109/REV.2015.7087268
DO - 10.1109/REV.2015.7087268
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84929179840
T3 - Proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, REV 2015
SP - 86
EP - 89
BT - Proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, REV 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, REV 2015
Y2 - 25 February 2015 through 27 February 2015
ER -