View Attendee Testimonials on MicrobeWorld.org from 2008
In this www.microbeworld.org episode, we talk with Erica Suchman, Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, and Local Organizing Chair for the 2009 Conference. Erica talks about her attendance at the meeting for the past 12 years and the benefits of participating. Also featured are several participants at ASMCUE 2008 held at Endicott College in Beverly, MA and ASM's Education Director, Amy Chang, a co-founder of the Conference.
ASMCUE 2011 Past Proceedings
The ASMCUE 2011 Final Program is available in pdf format. If you are unfamiliar with ASMCUE, the program is a good place to learn about the types of sessions offered and the flow of the meeting. To print a copy, clink on the link below:
18th Annual American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators
June 2-5, 2011
Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, Baltimore, MD
Conference Steering Committee
Lee Hughes, University of North Texas; Jacqueline Washington, Nyack College, and Min-Ken Liao, Furman University
Local Organizing Committee
Kristina Obom, Johns Hopkins University, Beverly Wendland, Johns Hopkins University, Patrick Cummings, Johns Hopkins University, and Bob Lessick, Johns Hopkins University
The weather in Baltimore was beautiful for the 18th annual ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators held on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University. Over 350 participants, an ASMCUE record, attended the meeting, with 41% “first-timers” and 21 international attendees. Also 45 Biology Scholars which includes the Research, Transitions, and Assessment Scholars and 8 scholarship recipients from the ASM-UNESCO Leadership Grant for International Educators attended the meeting.
As always, the success of the meeting is due to the all of the individuals who dedicate their time to creating such an amazing program. A big thank you to the ASMCUE staff, including of Amy Chang, Kelly Gull, Michelle Slone, Leslie Robinson, and Kari Sherwood, who did a tremendous job guiding the organizing committee as we selected speakers and made tweaks to improve the format of the meeting. We also greatly appreciate the continued support of Kelly Cowan (Chair of Undergraduate Education) and Neil Baker (Chair of ASM Education Board). We also must once again express our sincere appreciation to the local organizing committee of Beverly Wendland, Kristina Obom, Patrick Cummings, and Bob Lessick for their tremendous help in not only providing us with excellent facilities for the meeting, but for all their hard work in helping us secure amazing speakers for our program. The conference also benefited from the growing number of vendors and publishing companies who support and enrich the meeting. Finally, to everyone who served as a volunteer this year, from abstract reviewers to microbrew facilitators, we say thank you for your time as well and thank you for helping to keep ASMCUE great!
Our theme this year, Blending Science and Education, was embraced by all our presenters. We were fortunate to be able to host award-winning plenary lecturers who have all made significant contributions to microbiology and biology education and research. The first plenary by Teresa Balser on the topic of “Teaching as if Learning Mattered” on Thursday evening really struck a chord with the participants who continued to reflect back on her points throughout the weekend (view Bassler’s presentation (video on YouTube) . On Saturday morning, we were treated to Jo Handelsman’s lecture discussing research related to scientific teaching. At noon on Saturday, Sue Merkel introduced us to the work of the ASM Task Force on Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology Education revisiting the microbiology curriculum guidelines and gave participants the opportunity to comment on the committees work during breakout sessions. Saturday’s trio of plenary lectures was wrapped up by the amazing presentation by out-going ASM President Bonnie Bassler about her work on cell-cell communication in bacteria (view Bassler’s [resentation (video on YouTube). The closing plenary of the conference was held on Sunday morning where Bert Vogelstein described his fascinating work with bacterial-based treatment of cancers (view Vogelstein’s presentation (video on YouTube). These wonderful plenary talks were complimented by the outstanding concurrent resource sessions covering topics including classroom-based research experiences, lab safety, online education, biology education research, K-12 outreach, and the Vision and Change report. Our concurrent pedagogy sessions offered topics at levels from beginning to advanced such as Active Learning 101 and Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching. We also had an outstanding set of scientific sessions a wide range of topics including synthetic biology, virology, parasitology, genomics, and others. All of our presenters served as wonderful resources for our attendees, and we would like to thank them once again for all their hard work.
Our participants also shared their knowledge through the popular Microbrew sessions and the fantastic poster presentations. MicrobeLibrary review sessions continued during our lunch on Friday providing participants the opportunity to comment on protocol projects. This year’s abstracts are featured in Volume 12, Issue 1 of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education.
We hope that you had an engaging, enlightening and exciting time at ASMCUE 2011. Many of the plenary speakers and presenters have made their presentations and/or hand-outs available to us on the ASMCUE website. We hope that these will be useful to you in your classes and research!
In closing, we say congratulations to this year’s travel award winners and hope to see you all (and a friend you’ve recruited!) at ASMCUE 2012 in San Mateo, California - June 14-17!
The following speakers have made their presentations available to us:
Opening Remarks
ASMCUE 2011 Opening Remarks
Katherine S. Newman, James B. Knapp Dean, Johns Hopkins University
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