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Celebrating ASM Carski Award Winners and Their Impact

Tonight, I watched Stanley Maloy, Editor-in-Chief of JMBE, host a conversation at ASM Microbe 2022 in DC. This was a conversation with four ASM Carski Award winners: Nancy Boury, David Westenberg, Mark Martin, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, about their insights into excellence in undergraduate teaching. Westenberg spoke about about student success as part of the reason why […]
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Ethical Lab Notebook Management in STEM Programs

Rachel Horak facilitated the JMBE Live! session on “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Presented on October 28, 2022, Caitlin Light and Sonia Hills at Binghamton University. Sonia Hills was an undergraduate. Binghamtopn University’s First-year Research Immersion Program is a University-wide STEM program enrolling 300 first-year students. The three semester […]
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Benefits of Collaborative Two-Stage Exams in Biology

Tonight I watched Claire Meaders speak about two-stage exams as part of a JMBE Live! session. The title of the session was “Collaborative Two Stage Exams Benefit Students in a Biology Laboratory Course.” Meaders used menti and polled the attendees. Meaders explained that they joined UCSD as an Assistant Teaching Professor in November 2020. They […]
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Revamping the Central Dogma: Teaching with Chromogenic Proteins

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live session with Greg Phillips from the University of Georgia and Nancy Boury from Iowa State University. Stanley Maloy, Editor in Chief of JMBE, was the moderator. Maloy spoke about how this Curriculum article revisits the Central Dogma. Boury and Phillips were together for several years at Iowa State. The […]
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Benefits of CUREs on Scientific Identity in Undergraduates

I am happy to have found the JMBE YouTube playlist I had forgotten about! Tonight I watched the session on “CURES increase students’ scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and self-assessed skills.” Grace Borlee and Carolina Mehaffy were the guests, and the session was moderated by Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-chief. Mehaffy is at Colorado State University along […]
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New Oxford Nanopore Technologies

I am now watching videos from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) YouTube playlist that includes sessions from the NCM 2022. I want to learn more about what others are doing with Nanopore and how to use automation and pipelines more efficiently. The first session I watched tonight was on “End-to-End human genome nanopore sequencing and […]
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Basecalling for Modified Bases

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) NCM 2022 masterclass I watched tonight was “How to basecall your data and detect methylation” with Jessica Anderson, a field application scientist with ONT. The recording is available. Anderson described how Nanopore sequencing works: as DNA/RNA strands pass through the pore, changes in current are detected. Anderson explained that basecalling […]
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Creating a Specifications Grading Course

The JMBE Live session I watched today was on “The Effects of Specifications Grading in a Cell Biology Course.” I watched it from the JMBE YouTube. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor, was the moderator. The authors are from Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) and included Shoshana Katzman, Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy, Elisabeth Javazon, Alessandra Barrera, Jennell Talley, Mary Diaz, […]
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Labster Pre-labs and Safety

Dr. Manuela Tripepi, an Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, presented at ASMCUE 2022 about the use of laboratory simulations as pre-lab activities. This microbrew entitled “Using Laboratory Simulations as Pre-lab Activity” was an overview of how Tripepi used Labster videos during the pandemic in unique ways. Tripepi asked: do students learn and read the […]
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Primer Design with Examples and Forums

“Use of an Online Discussion Board in Improving Student Confidence in PCR Primer Design” is the title of the ASMCUE 2022 recorded nine-minute session I watched tonight. Nancy Magill is in the Biotechnology Program at Indiana University. They teach the T315 Biotechnology Lab that is required for their Biotechnology majors and has molecular biology as […]
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