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2010 Full Program

ASMCUE 2010 Final Program (pdf - 82 pages)

17th Annual American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators

May 20-23, 2010

Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, CA

Conference Steering Committee

Jennifer Herzog, Ph.D. Herkimer County Community College, Lee Hughes, University of North Texas, Donald Lehman, Ed.D. University of Delaware

The Town & Country Resort provided an excellent venue for the 17th Annual ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators. Over 300 participants made their way to sunny San Diego, 45% of which were first-time attendees and many traveling internationally from distant countries.

First and foremost, the success of this year’s meeting is due to the all of the individuals who dedicated their time to creating such an amazing program this year. A big thank you to the ASMCUE staff, comprised of Amy Chang, Kelly Gull, Michelle Slone, and KaRyn Daley, who did a tremendous job guiding we the organizing committee as we solidified the speakers and made changes to improve the overall 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). As we made clear during the meeting, our Local Organizing Chair, Dr. Stanley Maloy, was instrumental in multiple ways and we cannot thank him enough for all of his time and efforts. This year found an increase in support from our participating vendors and publishing companies as well, for which we are truly grateful. Finally, to everyone who served as a volunteer this year, we say thank you for your time as well and we hope that you see that working together is what really makes this conference a success each year!

“One Health, One Earth: A Sustainable Future”. Our theme this year encompassed not only the diversity of presentations from our invited plenary lecturers, but also our desire to strengthen the educational link between traditional areas of microbiology and the general sciences. We invited a series of plenary lecturers who have all made significant contributions to microbiology education and wide-ranging areas of microbiological research. We decided to start the meeting in earnest on Thursday evening, and Dr. Stanley Maloy’s lecture set the tone for CUE with his informative, reflective and humorous lecture. Forest Rohwer’s talk on the microbiology of coral reefs had everyone busy Tweeting and posting on Facebook at an early morning hour! Then Margaret McFall-Ngai reinforced the idea that we can effectively use microbiology to address many of the challenges in biology that will face us as educators and researchers in years to come. Amy Cheng Vollmer’s lecture was very well received by all, as we were yet again got to see (and be amazed by!) in person what truly makes a deserving Carski Award winner. Closing out the conference, Charles Gerba’s talk on hygiene for the 21st century opened everyone’s eyes to just how we should be going about living with and fighting against the microorganisms that live in and around us every day.

Our “Learn Something New (LSN)” sessions were bolstered by the participation of our plenary lecturers, Dr. Stanley Maloy and Dr. Margaret McFall Ngai. In addition to their presentations, attendees were given updates on many areas of microbiology-related fields of research such as metagenomics, clinical microbiology, virology and immunology among many others. This year’s “Try Something New (TSN)” sessions provided attendees with the chance to actively learn how to implement mathematics, case studies, rubrics and assessment techniques into their courses. We truly thank all of our presenters for their hard work and dedication to advancing the knowledge of our participants here at ASMCUE!

New this year were some great collaborations with several national NSF-funded biology education projects including two funded by RCN-UBE grants; the Introductory Biology Project headed by Gordon Uno and Concept Assessments in Biology led by Kathleen Fisher. Another collaborator was Sam Donovan, PI for an NSDL/DUE grant on the topic of Cyberlearning for Community College Faculty. Leaders in these groups held pre-conference focus groups and presented sessions and posters in order to disseminate their activities and solicit and create opportunities for communities of practice around these subjects.

Also debuting at the Conference was the newly expanded Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (JMBE) “2.0.” The journal now includes several sections previously hosted in ASM’s MicrobeLibrary (www.microbelibrary.org). Authors were encouraged to submit articles and serve as reviewers for the journal and a special demonstration room during exhibits at which attendees could sign up for and learn how to submit to the new open-access website (http://jmbe.asm.org). Perhaps most exciting is the new decision to include the ASMCUE abstracts in the journal so authors can showcase and site their contribution to the Conference.

Finally, this year we continued the highly successful Microbrew and Nuts & Bolts sessions, allowing educators to learn more about best practices and professional development issues. We had a record number of Microbrew sessions, which in turn caused an upswing in the number of poster presentations we had this year as well. Kudos to you all who presented! MicrobeLibrary review sessions continued during our lunch on Friday, which provided participants to peer review projects that were submitted to the teaching database this year.

We hope that you had an engaging, enlightening and exciting time at ASMCUE 2010. If you were not able to attend, however, please note that the entire opening lecture of the meeting will be available online soon! In addition, many of the plenary speakers (as well as presenters from TSN, LSN, Microbrew, and Nuts & Bolts sessions) have made their presentation Powerpoints and/or hand-outs available to us this year. 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 2011 (June 2-5, Location TBD)!

Textbook Travel awardee: Enid Gonzalez (California State University)
Early-Career Travel awardees: Russell Cossaboom (University of Michigan-Flint), Linsey Donner (University of Nebraska Medical Center), Jean Huang (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering), Jeffrey Olimpo (University of Maryland), Jennifer Powell (Gettysburg College), Melissa Schreiber (Valencia Community College), Heidi Smith (Front Range Community College), and Julie Torruellas Garcia (Nova Southeastern University)
Faculty Enhancement Program awardees: Gina Cano-Monreal (Texas State Technical College), Stella Doyungan (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), Gary Patterson (College of the Marshall Islands), Ann Stewart-Akers (South University), Jacqueline Washington (Nyack College), and Maureen Whitehurst (Trident Technical College)
ASM Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship awardee: Andrew Mo (The Johns Hopkins University)

ASM-UNESCO Train-the-Trainers Scholarship for International Educators awardees: Jane-Francis Akoachere (University of Buea), Maria Julia Amoroso (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán), Maria Tersita Bertolí Avella (Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado), Esperanza C. Cabrera (De La Salle University), Ousman Diagne (Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles), Uchechi Ekwenye (Michael Okpara University of Agriculture), Uzoamaka Ogechi George-Okafor (Enugu State University of Science and Technology), Hygia Maria Nunes Guerreiro (Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública), and Debananda S. Ningthoujam (Manipur University)

The following speakers have made their presentations available to us:

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