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From Plant to Publication: Empowering Students with Data Literacy Skills

Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig, Germany, presented a five-minute session at London Calling 2024 titled “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Wolff spoke about the variety of plants around us and empowering students to learn about plant diversity. They wanted to address the increasing availability of data and lack of data […]
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EPI2ME Everywhere: New Workflows and Cloud Integration

We have been using EPI2ME a lot lately and want to learn more about the new features. Tonight, I watched Sirisha Hesketh, Clinical Bioinformatician from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, present “EPI2ME everywhere” at London Calling 2024. They began with an overview of the workflows available: seventeen ranging from base calling and alignment to single-cell genomics. An […]
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A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]
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A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]
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Interpreting and Communicating in Undergraduate Research Experiences

To end the year, I watched the JMBE Live session with Laura E. Ott entitled “Supporting Deaf Students in Undergraduate Research Experiences.” This session was recorded over a year ago.Ott was at UMBE when she started this work and now has been at UNC for several years. She began by sharing the statistics on Deaf […]
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Swabs and Microbes in the Second Grade Classroom

The JMBE Live session I watched tonight was entitled “Microscopic Communities: Interdisciplinary Exploration of Microbes in the Classroom” and presented by Dr. Jennifer Surtees and Dr. Sandra K. Small from the University of Buffalo. They are both part of the Genome, Environment and Microbiome (GEM) program that aims to integrate research, education, and engagement. GEM […]
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Antiracist Opportunities

Chelsey Nardi from the University of Colorado Denver is a doctoral candidate and presented at JMBE on their article about antiracist opportunities. The overview Nardi presented summarized the article: Nardi focused in the recorded session on the finding that “active learning does not equal inclusive teaching.” She also mentioned that authentic research experienced with unpaid […]
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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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The BER Field

The JMBE live session I watched tonight was about Getting Started in Biology Education. I was able to participate in the course and today worked with Jeremy! Jeremy Hsu and Stanley Lo shared the open access article published in JMBE that describes biology education research (BER). Lo shared quotes from JMBE and SABER about how […]
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Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks

I am continuing to watch the ASM JMBE live sessions. The session was entitled “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Caitlin Light presented their study along with Sonia Hills, a former undergraduate peer mentor. Light is at Binghampton University and involved with the first-year research immersion program. The program enrolls […]
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