The schedule will be updated frequently and is subject to change. Check back often!
This joint conference brings together three groups interested in undergraduate quantitative biology education. All three groups meet together. The HHMI Quantitative Biology Conference will conclude on Monday June 15, and the BioQUEST and Science Case Net participants will continue meeting together through Sat June 20. All are welcome to apply to the HHMI and BioQUEST conferences. Science Case Net is by invitation only. We recommend all participants bring a laptop.
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Sat June 13
9:00 AM - 12:00PM Registration and check-in
12:00PM Lunch
1:30PM Welcome
2:00PM First Workshop Sessions
- A biologically themed introduction to computing (more info)
Presenters: Eliot Bush - Avida ED: An artifical life platform for teaching evolutionary principles and the nature of science (more info)
Presenter: Jim Smith - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Case Study (more info)
Presenter: Annie Prud'homme Genereux - Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom (more info)
Presenter: Mark Bray - Open Science, Open Data, Open Source Projects for Course Undergraduate Research Experiences (more info)
Presenter: Kam Dahlquist
4:00PM Reception
5:00PM Catered Dinner
6:30PM Keynote Speech (more info):
Colleen Jonsson, Director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
Sun June 14
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM "Quantitative Reasoning: Interdisciplinary STEM 21st Century Reasoning Modality" (more info)
Presenter: Robert Mayes, Professor, Teaching and Learning Dept
10:00AM Break
10:30AM Second workshop session
- Data Nuggets (more info)
Presenter: Julie Morris - Integrating quantitative reasoning in biology education: Making the science more authentic and the learning more robust (more info)
Presenters: Sam Donovan & Lou Gross & Arietta Fleming-Davies - Evo ED: Integrative cases for teaching evolution across the biology curriculum (more info)
Presenter(s): Jim Smith - Visualization: Quantitative reasoning via image analysis, networks, topology, generative models, and 3D rendering (more info)
Presenter: John Jungck - The ESTEEM collection: Computational tools to support modeling and analysis of biological systems at the introductory level and beyond (more info)
Presenter: Tony Weisstein
12:30PM Lunch w/ Art Benjamin - Mathemagician!
2:00PM Third workshop session
- Data-based inquiry in the classroom using authentic research data from the Dryad Digital Repository (more info)
Presenter: Samantha Swauger - Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom (more info)
Presenter: Mark Bray - From Food Webs to Phylogeny: Incorporating diverse mathematical concepts in the undergraduate biology classroom (more info)
Presenter: Sarah Orlofske - Designing Active Learning Exercises for Ecology, Evolution, and Mathematical Biology Classes (more info)
Presenter: Stephen Adolph - MathBench (more info)
Presenters: Kristin Jenkins & Stacey Kiser
4:00PM Break
4:30PM Introduction to the HHMI Quantitative Biology Conference, BioQUEST Workshop and Science Case Net Meeting
5:00PM Participants: Form groups for research project
5:30PM Dinner
6:30PM HHMI Poster Session BQ (more info)
7:30PM Participants: Work on research project
Mon June 15
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM "Studying DNA structure with mathematical and computational methods" (more info)
Presenter: Mariel Vazquez, Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics & Mathematics Depts.
10:00AM Research project check in
10:30AM Work time for research projects
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM "Joining a movement? Consideration of the National Landscape of STEM reform" (more info)
Presenter: Adrianna Kezar, Professor, Rossier School of Education, Co-Director Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California
2:00PM QUBES Project Overview
2:30PM Work time for research project
4:30PM Research project presentations
5:30PM HHMI Workshop wrap up
6:30PM Dinner on your own
Tues June 16
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM Curriculum Development
Group introductions, identify curriculum issues to focus on
12:00PM Lunch
1:30PM "From Peer-Reviewed Article to Peer-Reviewed Learning: How to transform ajournal article into a case study " (more info)
Presenter: Annie Prud'homme Genereux, Founding Professor, Life Sciences, Quest University, Canada
2:30PM Curriculum Development
Form groups
4:00PM Curriculum Groups check in with BQ Staff
5:00PM "Open Education Resources (OER) for science teaching - an evolving landscape" (more info)
Presenter: Ahrash Bissell, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
6:00PM Dinner
7:30PM Work time - reflections
Weds June 17
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM "InterLACE: Interactive Learning and Collaboration Environment"; (more info)
Presenter: Leslie Schneider
10:00AM Work time
12:00PM Lunch
1:30PM Work time
3:30PM Optional - Tour Botanical Gardens
5:00PM Dinner
6:30PM 4H Sharing Session (more info)
8:00PM Work time
Thurs June 18
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM Speaker
10:00AM Worktime
12:00PM Lunch
1:30PM "Development of BioSQuARE, an instrument to assess undergraduate biological quantitative skills" (more info)
Presenter: Jason Belitsky, Oberlin College and Q6 Project
2:30PM Work time
5:00PM Dinner on your own
7:30PM Work time
Fri June 19
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM Speaker
10:00AM Work time
12:00PM Lunch
1:30PM Work time
2:30PM Check in with BQ Staff
5:00PM Dinner
6:30PM Final Presentations
Sat June 20
8:00AM Breakfast
9:00AM Final Presentations
12:00PM Conference wrap up and Feedback [link to form]
12:30PM Conference concludes, box lunches available