Month: March 2017

At #UCDavis 3/8 Miriam Martin on “Improving student learning in microbiology through peer-to-peer instruction & a collaboratively-designed intro course”

MIC 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology

Work-in-Progress Seminars

Dr. Miriam Martin
(Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics)

"Improving student learning in microbiology through peer-to-peer instruction and a collaboratively-designed introductory course"

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

4:10 pm

1022 Life Sciences

Martin 3-8-17.doc

3/9 at #UCDavis Harvey Karten – could be good but “Evolutionary Connectomics?” Noooooooooooooooooooo #BadomicsWord

Just got this by email:

Looks possibly very interesting but "Evolutionary Connectomics" — that is a #Badomics Word / phrase

https://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/p/my-writings-on-badomics-words.html

Reminder next week…

Ted Jones History of Neuroscience Lecture announcement…

Dr. Harvey Karten will be presenting “Evolutionary Connectomics”

Thursday, March 9th at 4pm at the Center for Neuroscience, Rm 113.

Blast form the past – videos from 2002 research cruise at the Galapagos Rift

OK it is only 15 years after the fact but am posting some videos from the  2002 Galapagos Rift Expedition I went on May 24 – June 4, 2002.  It was the cruise honoring the 25th Anniversary of the discovery of deep sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems.

For more information see the web site from Dive and Discover

Here is a playlist with all my videos, some from the cruise and some from the Galapagos Islands where the cruise started / stopped.  I have not edited any of the videos – just digitized everything from the tapes and posted them.  Apologies if anything is, well, inappropriate for any reason.

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.

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At #UCDavis 3/1 Elena Bray Speth “Learning biology – & learning how to learn: challenges & strategies for introductory science students”

Received this by email:
Plant Sciences Seminar Speaker

March 1, 2017

Dr. Elena Bray Speth

Associate Professor

Department of Biology

Saint Louis University, Missouri

12:10 – 1:00pm ~ Seminar (3001 PES)

“Learning biology – and learning how to learn: challenges and strategies for introductory science students”

Elena’s research program focus on teaching and learning about complex biological systems in introductory biology. Her program at St. Louis University is funded by NSF. Please visit her webpage at http://www.slu.edu/~espeth/index.html. She will present two aspect of her research: (a) how to promote development of competencies such as modeling and crafting explanations in large introductory biology courses, and (b) what we know about students’ self-regulated learning and study habits, and their relationship to academic achievement. Before moving on to science education, Elena received her PhD from Michigan State University, where she studied molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions.