Profile

• Organization

  Marian University

  
  
• Website

  http://www.marian.edu/academics/school-of-mathematics-and-sciences/faculty-and-staff/kristy-wilson

  
  
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• Interests

  1. education research

  
  
• Biography

  I received my PhD from Purdue University in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program. There my intensive graduate coursework focused on connecting disease-related molecules and their use as targets of selective therapeutics. My graduate research concerned growth promotion in cancer and resulted in the discovery of a new paradigm for inhibiting receptor tyrosine kinases. My postdoctoral position was as a fellow at Emory University in the NIH-sponsored Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) program (http://www.physiology.emory.edu/FIRST/). As a FIRST fellow, I conducted research in C. elegans on muscle structure/function and participated in a mentored teaching experience.
  

  I started at Marian University in a tenure-track position in 2012 in the Biology Department. My teaching responsibilities include Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Advanced Genetics, Biochemistry, and associated labs .
  

  My research is in biology education. My specific interest is the role of visual representations in learning. These visual representations can be used to aid learning or to assess specific skills.
  

  
  
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