Tonight I started watching ASMCUE 2022 sessions. The first half-hour session I watched (I skipped the CourseSource one since I participated in that one and didn’t want to watch myself!) was entitled “Session. A storytelling approach to microbial metabolism: improving attitudes and functional knowledge.” Jake McKinlay is an Associate Professor at Indiana University. McKinlay teaches […]
The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Microbrew. Empathetically Engaging With Our Community Through A Service Learning Project.” Pete Chandrangsu, an assistant professor at Scripps College, and Jessie Lee Mills, an assistant professor at Pomona College, were the presenters. They collaborated with the Latino & Latina Roundtable and Pitzer College. Chandrangsu teaches […]
“Microbrew. Implementing team science training in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)” was the session title I watched tonight. Anna C. Ward and Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft were the presenters. I know Vance-Chalcraft from citizen science work in the area. I also watched this session live, and it was good to return to it after a coupe […]
“Alpha, Delta, Omicron- Oh My! A SARSCoV2 Genome Alignment Activity to Understand Mutations and COVID” was the creative title of the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight. J. Jordan Steel, an Associate Professor at the US Air Force Academy, was the presenter and shared COVID sequences as handouts for the session. Interestingly, I think […]
Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session by Daryn Stover entitled “Enhancing communication skills through discussion of primary literature and phenotypic variation.” Stover is at Arizona State at Lake Havasu and is a dedicated undergraduate campus. There are no dedicated research labs. There is a senior capstone experience and opportunities for internships. The BIO […]
Mary Ann Smith presented at ASMCUE 2022 a microbrew session entitled “Too long for a CURE: Building a Semester of Short-term Research Experiences (SREs) for Microbiology.” Smith is at Penn State Schuylkill and has earned two MAs and an MBA. They used slido.com for polls during their session, starting with “Have you incorporated a CURE […]
Jaclyn A. Madden, Associate Professor at Hartford Community College, was the speaker at ASMCUE 2022 for the microbrew entitled “Undergraduates as Science Communicators: How to Engage Students in SciComm.” Jackie Madden teaches biotechnology. Madden defined “SciComm” as how scientists explain science to non-scientists. Effective SciComm requires letting go of technical jargon and benefits students as […]
The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Measures Taken to Increase Belonging and Retention in a First Semester Majors Biology Course.” Sean Timothy Coleman was the presenter and used a Padlet to share information. Coleman is at a small institution in Iowa. They launched workshops on diversity and inclusion and brought in […]
Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “Teaching microbiology with poetry: Connecting lower and higher order cognitive skills.” Suparna Chatterjee has two Ph.D. degrees: one in microbiology and one in curriculum and instruction! They presented this short microbrew on their approach to teach microbiology with poetry at Arkansas Tech University. Chatterjee teaches several courses and […]
Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “3D Printing to Observe Bacterial Interactions.” The speaker was Nik Stasulli, an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven. This session was about creating 3D structures to examine bacterial interactions due to chemical secretions. Stasulli started the semester by having groups create Winogradsky columns and isolating bacteria. […]