Publications

Awong-Taylor, J., D’Costa, A., Giles, G., Leader, T., Pursell, D., Runck, C., Mundie, T. (2016) Undergraduate Research for All: Addressing the Elephant in the Room. Council on Undergraduate Research CUR Quarterly Fall 2016: Vol 37, No 1.
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Russell, J. E., Dā€™Costa, A. R., Runck, C., Barnes, D. W., Barrera, A., Hurst-Kennedy, J., Sudduth, E. B., Quinlan, E. L., and Schlueter, M. (2015). Bridging the Undergraduate Curriculum Using an Integrated Course-Embedded Undergraduate Research Experience (ICURE). Cell Biology Educationā€“Life Science Education 14(1): 1-10. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353079/

Heinz, A, Xin Xu and A. Dā€™Costa. (2015). Web-animations: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Biology and Information Technology Students. Published in Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2015 IEEE, pages 33-37. Conference date: March 7th, 2015, Princeton N.J. PrintISBN:978-1-4799-1828-7. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A7119894%29&refinements=4226196162&pageNumber=1&resultAction=REFINE

Schlueter M.A. & Dā€™Costa A. R. (2013). Guided Inquiry Labs using Bean Beetles for Teaching the Scientific Method and Experimental Design. The American Biology Teacher, 75(3):214-218.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/abt.2013.75.3.11

Dā€™Costa, A.R and Schlueter, M.A. (2013). Scaffolded Instruction Improves Student Understanding of the Scientific Method and Experimental Design. The American Biology Teacher, 75(1):18-28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/abt.2013.75.1.6

Dā€™Costa, A. R., A. Benson, and D. Dorsett (2011). Crime Investigation Laboratory captivates interest of Non-majors students. Published in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 32 (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE). Ā Ā www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-32/v32toc.htm

Dā€™Costa A. & Shepherd I. (2009). Zebrafish Development and Genetics: Introducing Undergraduates to Developmental Biology and Genetics in a Large Introductory Laboratory class. Zebrafish, 6(2), 169-77 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774836/

Dā€™Costa A. R., and Santoro, I. (2009). The effect of UV radiation on the survival of yeast and its implication to a real-life situation. Published in Tested Studies for LaboratoryTeaching, Volume 30. Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), page 371. Ā Ā www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-30/v30reprint.php?ch=29

Dā€™Costa A., Reifergeste R, *Sierra S, Moses K. (2006). The Drosophila ramshackle gene encodes a chromatin-associated protein required for cell morphology in the developing eye. Mechanisms of Development,123, 591-604. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16904300

Dā€™Costa A. and Moses K. (2003) Looking Up: Regional Patterning in the Fly Eye. Dev.Cell,5, 665-666. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14602064

Otteson D. C, D’Costa A. R, Hitchcock PF. (2001) Putative stem cells and the lineage of rod photoreceptors in the mature retina of the goldfish. Dev. Biol. 232(1): 62-76. Ā http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11254348

Sylvester J. E, Wu S, Dā€™Costa A, Goodwin D, Purohit K, Keats B. (1993). Linkage analysis in American Friedreichā€™s. In: Handbook of Cerebellar Diseases, Richard Lechtenberg (ed.), Marcel Dekker, Inc., Basel, 1993.