preliminary program

ACUBE 47^TH Annual Meeting

October 9-11, 2003

Truman State University

Kirksville, MO

Biology for Contemporary Living

Program

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*Thursday, October 9th*
2:00 - 5:00 PM	Pre-Conference Field Trip: Crinoid fossil quarry		Meet in Violette Hall foyer
3:00 - 5:00 PM	Steering Committee Meeting		Conference Room Student Union
6:00 - 8:00 PM	Registration and Reception heavy h'ors d'oerves		Violette Hall
8:00 - 9:00 PM	Opening Session Welcome to ACUBE: ACUBE President: Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University Welcome to Truman State University: President: Truman State University, Dr. Barbara Dixon Science Division Chair: Scott Ellis Truman State University Program Chair: Lynn Gillie Elmira College Local Arrangements Chair: Nancy Sanders. Truman State University OPENING ADDRESS (Public Welcome to Attend) Michael Kelrick, Division of Science, Truman State University When the Exotic Becomes Invasive: Familiar Questions wit' Stwange Anthers		Violette Hall
9:15 - 10:15 PM	Steering Committee Meeting		Conference Room Student Union
*Friday, October 10th*
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM		Registration table Open all day. Please check your membership status; Inquire about audiovisual needs; General information	(all locations are in the Student Union unless otherwise indicated)
7:00 - 8:00 AM		Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)	Georgian Room
7:30 - 10:30 AM		Field Trip: Birding	Meet outside Georgian Room
9:00 AM - Noon and 2:00 - 5:00 PM		SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS Refreshments provided	Activities Room
8:15-9:45 AM		CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS I 1. Easy Ways To Do Physiology Labs with Products from iWorx/CB Sciences Steve Andre, iWorx/CB Sciences, Inc. 2. Investigative Activities and Cases from Microbes Count! Ethel Stanley and Margaret Waterman, Beloit College and Southeast Missouri State University 3. The Non-target Effects of Bti Toxin on Aquatic Insects Julie J. Shaffer and William W. Hoback, University of Nebraska at Kearney	Pickler Memorial Library Room 103 Pickler Memorial Library Room 203 Student Union Room 309
9:50-10:20 AM		POSTER SESSION I Refreshments Provided 1. Developing a Three-Tiered Test to Diagnose Misconceptions in College Biology Students Barbara Gaddis and Sandra Berry-Lowe, CU-Colorado Springs 2. Improving Information Literacy for Biology Majors Vaughn Gehle, Southwest Minnesota State University *3. Using Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces* cerevisiae as a Model for Molecular Genetics. Laura Salem, Rockhurst University 4. The NASA Astrobiology Academy Morgan Perrone, Crystal Gammon, Anne Dekas, and Steve Mitchell, NMSU, Washington University, Harvard, and U of Maryland-College Park 5. Student Projects in a Team-taught, Mixed-Major Field Course Lynn Gillie, Robert Erdman, and Todd Egan, Elmira College 6. Investigations: An Animal Model of Diabetes. John J. Rutter, Truman State University 7. The Use of Service Learning to Meet Learning Objectives in General Biology Courses. Lisa Felzien, Rockhurst University 8. Plaque Assay and Nucleic Acid Analysis of Lytic Coliphages from Creek Water and Domestic Sewage.** Omokaro Obire and Michael Lockhart, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Truman State University, Kirksville	Student Union Activities Room
10:30 - 11:15 AM		CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS I 1. Limitations of Simulations: Objectives Met Only With Genuine Labwork, With a Focus on Animal Dissection John Richard Schrock, Emporia State University 2. Seeing Plants as Doing Plants: How to Teach Students to See Plants by Using Taxonomy Suzanne Martin, Moberly Area Community College 3. Microbial Ecology Activities from Microbes Count! Ethel Stanley, Beloit College 4. The Undergraduate Research Program at Truman State University Jeffrey M. Osborn, Truman State University	Student Union Room 307 Student Union Room 308 Student Union Room 309 Student Union Governor's Room 310
11:20 - 12:05 AM		CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS II 1. Gardens as Classrooms: Using Gardens for Teaching and Research Steve Carroll, Truman State University 2. Integrating the Scientific Method into Anatomy and Physiology Laboratories Karyn Turla, Friends University 3. A Web-based Resource for the Teaching of Evolutionary Biology as an Applied and Investigative Laboratory Science Joanna Vondrasek, Janis Antonovics, and Doug Taylor, University of Virginia 4. Teaching Biology Courses in the Face of Poverty and Ignorance Omokaro Obire, Rivers State University, Nigeria, and Truman State University	Student Union Room 307 Student Union Room 308 Student Union Room 309 Student Union Governor's Room 310
12:15 - 1:00 PM		Luncheon and First Business Meeting First and Final Call for Nominations!! Out of this World Teaching Idea contributions	Georgian Room
1:00 - 1:45 PM		Luncheon Program Judith Dilts, Dr. Burnell Landers Chair of Biology and Professor, William Jewell College The Challenges Ahead in Educating 21st Century Biologists	Georgian Room
2:00 - 5:00 PM		Field Trip: Restored Prairie	Meet outside Georgian Room
2:00–2:45 PM		CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS III 1. Can a New Dog Learn Old Tricks?: A Junior Faculty Member puts NSF’s Recommendations for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (SME&T) Education to Task Peter White, Colby-Sawyer College 2. Development of a Research-Based Course for Undergraduates in RNA, DNA, and Protein Extraction, Purification, and Characterization Tom Tauer Coe College 3. Unclassifying Classical Physiology Laboratories Gregory Grabowski, University of Detroit Mercy 4. Introducing Epidemiology in Microbiology Labs Using a Model of a Smallpox Epidemic Started by a Bioterrorist Alicia Wilson, AKL Informatics	Student Union Room 309 Student Union Room 308 Student Union Room 307 Student Union Governor's Room 310
2:50 - 3:20 PM		POSTER SESSION II Refreshments provided Posters from the morning session still available for review	Activities Room
3:30 - 5:00 PM		CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS II 1. IOptimize Integrated Learning System (utilizing the power of onsite-online interface in Teaching and Learning) Abour Cherif, Stefanos Gialamas and Lin Stefurak, DeVry University 2. An Introduction to Working with Nucleic Acid and Protein Databases Brent Buckner and Diane Janick-Buckner, Truman State University 3. AMCBT's/ACUBE's Golden Anniversary Ideas! Memories! Accomplishments! Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University	Student Union Room 309 Pickler Memorial Library Room 103 Student Union Governor's Room 310
5:05 - 5:45 PM		Web Committee Meeting	Conference Room
6:00 - 7:00 PM		Social Still National Osteopathic Museum and historic medicinal garden (resumes of candidates available for review)	Tinning Education Center, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM)
7:00 - 9:00 PM		NE Missouri Dinner and Second Business Meeting (two-minute speeches prior to dinner; balloting after) Dinner Presentation Philip Wilson, Penn State College of Medicine *Kirksville's Harry Laughlin (1880-1943): Applying Classroom Genetics for the 'Betterment' of Humanity* Presentation of the 2003 Out of this World Teaching Idea	The Commons, KCOM McCreight Auditorium, KCOM
*Saturday, October 11th*
7:30 - 8:45 AM	Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)		Georgian Room Student Union
7:45 - 8:45 AM	Bioscene Editorial Board		Georgian Room
9:00 - 9:45 AM	CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS IV 1. Bioscience by Design Bob Aron and Abour Cherif, DeVry University 2. Biological Andragogy Marya Czech, Lourdes College 3. Shut up and Let the Students Learn: A Flexible No-Lecture Teaching Strategy that Deepens Student Understanding Neil Sabine, Indiana University East 4. NASA Ames Astrobiology Academy 2003: Astrobiology at Deep Sea Vents. Morgan Perrone, Crystal Gammon, Anne Dekas, and Steve Mitchell, NMSU, Washington University, Harvard, and U of Maryland-College Park		Student Union Room 309 Student Union Room 308 Student Union Governor's Room 310 Student Union Room 307
10:00 - 10:45 AM	CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS V 1. iBench: Instruction in Basic Equipment Needed for Chemistry and Biology Tom Tauer Coe College 2. Utilizing Technology to Link Alums with Undergraduate Learning Austin Brooks, Wabash College 3. Shut Up and Let the Student Learn: Changes in Student Perceptions and Performance in an Active Learning Environment Neil Sabine, Indiana University East 4. Hierarchy Theory: An Underutilized Helpmate for Understanding Complex Concepts in Undergraduate Biology Courses Jon Gering, Truman State University		Student Union Room 309 Student Union Room 308 Student Union Governor's Room 310 Student Union Room 307
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Luncheon and Third Business Meeting BUSINESS MEETING Resolutions: Dick Wilson, Rockhurst University Executive Secretary Report: Pres Martin, Hamline University Bioscene: Ethel Stanley, Beloit College & Tim Mulkey, Indiana State University Presidential Address: Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University 2004 Meeting: Austin Brooks, Wabash College		Georgian Room
12:30 - 3:00 PM	Steering Committee Meeting Includes newly elected Steering Committee members!		Conference Room
12:30 – 4:00 PM	Post conference Field Trip Open-air flea market, game birds and the Mennonite store		Meet outside Georgian Room

For additional information, please contact Program Chair Lynn Gillie by email at lgillie@elmira.edu or by phone at (607) 735-1859. Deadline for papers, workshops and posters was September 1, 2003.

last updated September 11, 2003