Reflections

GoogleForms for Unknown Microbe Identification

Dr. Lauren Brooks presented a ten-minute recorded session for ASMCUE 2022 entitled “Online unknowns: a supplement for the microbiology lab.” Brooks is faculty at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Their learning objectives were to revisit the unknown identification lab since it is often only performed “once or twice in a semester.” Brooks recreated the unknown […]
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TopHat and Technology in a Food Folklore Course

Dr. Bwalya Lungu, Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis, presented a recorded session at ASMCUE entitled “Integrated Approaches to Teaching Improve Overall Student Learning and Engagement in Large Classes.” Lungu spoke about the origins of this study and the need to improve the course based on feedback from student evaluations and technological advances. They […]
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Confidence and Scientific Literacy in a New Semester-long Course

“Increased Confidence and Scientific Literacy using a Semester-Long Case Study and Research Project” was the title of the ASMCUE 2022 recorded session I watched tonight. Nicole McAllister is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hill University. They teach microbiology at a private liberal arts 1800-student university in PA. Most students are focused on clinical health (68%!). […]
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Coyotes and Bacteria to Brains!?

Adam Keinschmit and Andrea Bixler created a case study as part of ImmunoReach: an NSF-supported Research Coordination Network. Their ASMCUE 2022 recorded session is entitled “ImmunoReach: Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study.” The case study is written as a conversation between two graduate students. One studies urban coyotes and is taking […]
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Assessing Student Learning with a New Receptor-Ligand Activity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 recorded session entitled “ImmunoReach: At the Intersection of Biochemistry & Immunology.” Heather A. Bruns and Sharifa Love-Rutledge presented this ten-minute recorded session. They both created this activity and implemented it at the University of Alabama Huntsville and UAB, with class sizes 13 and 31, respectively. They designed this receptor-ligand […]
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The IMMUNOLOGY Game

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE recorded session entitled “IMMUNOLOGY! A Board Game to Learn the Immune Response,” presented by Alicia Cecil, Mary Gobbet, and Emma Wade. This is a board game Cecil created with colleague Gobbet and student Emma Wade. They mentioned the game is adaptable to other topics. Cecil teaches clinical microbiology at the […]
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Wastewater Treatment Facilities and Quantitative Fluency

Tonight after an eventful and painful day (eye infection!), I tried to watch another ASMCUE 2022 session. The recorded ten-minute session was entitled: “How Can We Be Assured Our Water is Safe? A Lab Exercise to Teach the Scientific Method,” and David Singleton from York College was the presenter. At York College, BIO 230 is […]
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The Right to be Persuaded

I continue to watch ASMCUE 2022 sessions even though my eye hurts today! I watched a couple of sessions from BIT instructors, and now found Heather Townsend’s recorded session entitled “Fostering Scientific Literacy through the Identification of Credible Sources.” Townsend is a good friend, and we have worked together for a couple of years now. […]
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Research Ethics in Educational Studies

Stanley Maloy and Amy Kullas presented at ASMCUE on “Ethics for STEM Education Researchers. They spoke about research integrity and reproducibility and how they apply in education research. Maloy mentioned a new Academy of Microbiology resource on research ethics that is available for download. Quoting an Egyptian professor, Maloy said “do not lie, cheat, or […]
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The Central Dogma with Scissors and Charged tRNAs

We have been discussing the central dogma in BIT 295. Tonight, I was curious about the ASMCUE recorded session entitled “Doing Central Dogma: Active Learning Activity for Molecular Biology of Gene Expression.” The presenter, Sarah Shoemaker from North County Community College, had a unique setup: they presented with a chalkboard with “DNA –> RNA –> […]
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