2026 ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Biotech Launch: An Experiential Biotechnology Training Program for Community Col... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Making Classroom Engagement Sweeter: Using a Case Study on Diabetes to teach Met... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Cultivating STEM Identity Through Tiny Earth: A Study of Gateway Program Student... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

From Phenotype to Genotype: Integrating Microbial Physiology with Genetics throu... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

From No Lab Experience to Research Readiness: Supporting Students for Graduate P... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Beyond the Classroom: Designing Biology Courses That Recognize Working Learners 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Evaluating “Live and Active” Claims: Probiotic Foods as Tractable Systems for Te... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Myco-Ed: Empowering Students to Decode Fungal Diversity and Tolerance 7:15pm - 8:30pm

A low-cost CRISPR gene editing workflow for the college classroom 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Development and Implementation of a DNA Puzzle Builder Activity for Undergraduat... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Awarding Merit Badges in Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratories to Promote Tech... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Communication Soft Skills in the Sciences and Micro-Credentials 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Beyond the final product: A process-based framework for observing student learni... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

BUDDY: A Turnkey Platform to Enable Clinically Relevant Yeast CRISPR Course-Base... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

No Code, No Budget, No Problem: Vibe Code Your Own Zero-Cost Microbiology Lab To... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

AI Meets Microbiology: Building an Infectious Disease Case 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Improving STEM retention by utilizing CUREs, external partnerships, and microcre... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Structured for Success: Enhancing Equity in STEM Through Scaffolded Assessment D... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Leveraging a Public Database based on Student Discoveries 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Adapting the EvolvingSTEM CURE: Scaling Up High School Outreach for University-L... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Building a Community Resource for Undergraduate Immunology Laboratories 7:15pm - 8:30pm

The Curious, The Cautious, and The Convinced: A Role-Play Activity for Effective... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Breaking the ice: Using video introductions to connect with students and manage... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Bridging STEM knowledge gaps through a multidisciplinary zebrafish CURE 7:15pm - 8:30pm

A bite-sized approach to scaffolding scientific literature interpretation for fi... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Connecting Microbiology and Oral Health: A Multi-Procedure Laboratory Investigat... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Building and implementing a standards-based grading scheme based on the ASM Curr... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

BioCrawl: Promoting transparency toward undergraduate research and experiential... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Analysis of How Undergraduate Biology STEM Students Integrate AI Tools into thei... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Looking Forward to Nursing: A Weekly Framework for Teaching Microbiology with Pu... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Evaluating the Experiences of Counterstereotypical Scientists in the Classroom 7:15pm - 8:30pm

CURE TAPESTRy: A Network to Advance Professional Development of Teaching Assista... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Beyond the Pathogen: Reimagining Microbiology Education Using Infectious Disease... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Glow Up: Transforming pGLO into a Collaborative, Quantitative CURE for Biology M... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Examining the role of professional societies in pedagogical mentorship: lessons... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

From Classroom to Community: Using Environmental Justice Projects to Teach Labs 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Improving Consistency and Efficiency in Grading Quantitative Data Analysis throu... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Engaging Students in Immunology Through Student-Created Games 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Building Research and Workforce Skills Through an Interdisciplinary Fish Microbi... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

A bioprospecting ethics case study with multi-institution evidence of student le... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

Active Learning in Microbiology (ALM) – Disseminating Best Practices and Novel I... 7:15pm - 8:30pm

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open 12:00pm - 9:00pm

Activity: Tour and Lunch at the Allen Institute 10:00am - 12:30pm

Affinity dinners (on your own). Advanced sign-up required. 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Workshop 1: Integrating an Immunology Storyline in Your Course with HHMI BioInteractive 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Workshop 2: Hands-On PCR: Integrating End Point, Quantitative and Digital PCR Technology for Undergraduate Teaching and Research 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Workshop 3: From Course to Publication: A Guide to Environmental Microbiome Analysis With Students 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Opening Comments & Plenary by Ben Wiggins 6:00pm - 7:00pm

GIDEON Informatics: Product & Au... 7:30pm - 8:00pm

LuxArt activity (sign-up required) 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open 10:30am - 12:30pm

The effectiveness on student outcomes utilizing time management in a flipped cla... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Instructor implementation of published biology lessons preserve core materials a... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Scaffolding or Gatekeeping: The relationship between student demographics and pr... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Reducing Barriers in Large STEM Courses Through Automated, Inclusive Feedback 10:45am - 12:00pm

We Took It Twice: Student Insights on Experiencing Both Traditional and CURE For... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Improving Undergraduate Student Engagement In STEM Through Bioinformatics Resear... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Integration of a Tiny Earth CURE into a Microbiology Course and Student Percepti... 10:45am - 12:00pm

How does Peer Review and Social Annotation affect learning and sense of belongin... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Faculty Perceptions of AI in Immunology and Microbiology Courses 10:45am - 12:00pm

Innovating Nursing Education Through Virtual Simulation: Evaluating an Intervent... 10:45am - 12:00pm

From Self-Assessment to Improved Learning Strategies: Promoting Student Learning... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Safeguarding Food Security Using Plant Pathogen Genomics in a Cohort-based Under... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Assessing Students Understanding of a Microbial Mitosis and Meiosis Teaching Too... 10:45am - 12:00pm

The Importance of Peer-Peer Interaction and Team Dynamics in Managing Spread of... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Bridging Community College and University STEM Pathways: The Impact of Mentoring... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Timing is Everything: The Varying Effects of Just-in-Time Refreshers in Microbio... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Scaffolded Laboratory Instruction Improves Laboratory Competency in an Informal... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Assessing Students’ Perceptions of Motivational Climate in Microbiology Educatio... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Passing the Knowledge: Evaluating Undergraduates' Understanding of and Ability t... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Reducing the barrier between undergraduate students and academic research using... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Listening to Learn: Professional Microbiology Podcast Annotation Boosts Student... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Measuring Student Growth in a Microbiology CURE Using Course Learning Outcomes a... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Seeing the Invisible: Connecting Microbiology, Public Health, and Science Commun... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Beyond Action Verbs: Specification of Context in Learning Objectives Published b... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Schrödinger's Syllabus: How Students Navigate AI Policies in a State of Uncertai... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Integrating Science and Art through Eco-Columns and MudWatt Systems: A Cross-Dis... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Neuro-Narrative Pedagogy in Anatomy and Physiology: Preliminary Evidence for Lon... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Microbe Invader as a Gamification Strategy for Teaching and Applying Biochemical... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Wikipedia, AI and Science Communication: Student Perceptions Across Three Cohort... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Reexamining High-Impact Practices: Peer Leadership Assistant Development in a Co... 10:45am - 12:00pm

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open 2:15pm - 4:00pm

Teaching with AI, not against it: Redesigning a Microbiology writing assignment... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

How can we prepare introductory interdisciplinary courses for success in STEM? 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Prompting a Conversation: Exploring the use of AI to Develop Better Assessments... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

BactID.com: A bacterial identification website tool created with AI 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Electronic laboratory simulations for microbiology: proven tools, tradeoffs and... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

MicrobéMon - A semester-long, gamified research project emphasizing information... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Visualizing Cell Signaling: Engineering Bioluminescent Bacteria for the Classroo... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

We all belong in biology! 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The Science Behind Every Bite: A Science-Enriched Recipe Book to Promote Scienti... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Teach Together: A Cross-Course Collaboration to Connect Microbiology and Nursing... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Microbiology in STEM education: strengthening interdisciplinary connections 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Supporting Learning and Engagement through a Classroom-Based Peer Matching Tool... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Transforming quantitative biology-first education for undergraduates: attitudes,... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Student as Partner (SAP) - an innovative approach to teach an upper level Immuno... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Updating our education on chromatin structure-functional diversity within and ou... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The Benefit of Faculty Externships in the Local Biotech Ecosystem 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Hallmarks: An Educational Simulator of Cancer Evolution 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Using Primary Literature to Teach GenAI Literacy and Science Communication Skill... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Teaching microbial morphology, growth and metabolism through specific microbial... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Microbe Memory Cards: A Game‑Based Outreach Tool for Microbiology Awareness and... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Students as teachers in undergraduate biotechnology studies 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Shifting from a Performance Orientation to a Mastery Orientation: Helping Studen... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Beyond Lab Safety: Teaching Biosafety and Biosecurity Through Real-World Applica... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Round table discussion-worksheet: the new written lab report 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Using Heat Maps to Promote Interactive Engagement in Large Lecture Halls 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Three Hands-on Activities to Teach the Genetics of B- and T-cell Receptor Divers... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Using the Cell Collective platform to model and manipulate an immunological sign... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Learning from Peers: Exploring the Benefits of Structured Peer Feedback in Highe... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: A Community of Educators Supporting Evolutio... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Using Narrative-Based Learning to Enhance Engagement and Conceptual Understandin... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Improving Student Engagement in a Large Microbiology Classroom 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Students teaching peers about molecular and systemic drug function using a video... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Active Experimental Strategies for Teaching Oral Infections and Salivary Antimic... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Program Growth of Skills-Based Academia: Case Study in Biotechnology 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Integration of Microbiology Course Learning Outcomes with Agar Art Laboratory Ac... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Interactive Approaches to Teaching Microbiome Research Concepts in Informal Lear... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The Lab Notebook Quiz: a quick measure of student recordkeeping in a large, non-... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Science Literacy - A Semester Long Project 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Hunting Viruses for Undergraduate Engagement in the Molecular Biology Lab 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Improvement in Retention and Graduation rates in the wake of tightening academic... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Integrating Public Health into Microbiology Education: Lessons Learned as a CDC... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open 7:30am - 4:00pm

Break from ASMCUE and opportunity to sample Seattle 4:00pm - 7:00pm

JMBE Editors' breakfast 7:00am - 8:30am

From Archives to the Classroom: Building a Community and Develop... 9:45am - 10:45am

Integrating AI/ML Copilot Into Undergraduate Microbiology Educat... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Community College Roundtable: Faculty Voices from the Community... 9:45am - 10:45am

EduHack: A Collaborative Framework for Rapid Curriculum Developm... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Critical Conversations Regarding Graduate Teaching Assistants’ I... 9:45am - 10:45am

Creating Team Charters for Student Development of Workforce-Rele... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

An interdisciplinary CURE for Infectious Disease: Community Co-d... 9:45am - 10:45am

Carolina Science: Microbiology B... 11:15am - 11:45am

Writing Federal Grants in the Current Funding Landscape 1:30pm - 2:30pm

McGraw Hill: Product & Author Co... 2:45pm - 3:15pm

Commensals are Mutualists, and "Pathogen" is Passé. Discuss. 9:45am - 10:45am

Why teach TO the test if you can teach THROUGH the test? An intr... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

LuxArt visualization & photography 2:30pm - 4:00pm

ABRCMS/ASMCUE Joint Keynote 8:30am - 9:30am

ASMCUE/ABRCMS Joint Faculty Reception, TBA 7:15pm - 9:00pm

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open 7:30am - 6:00pm

Lunch (on your own) 12:15pm - 1:30pm

Affinity dinners (on your own). Advanced sign-up required. 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Integrating STEM Professional Development Workshops into the Curriculum to Promote STEM Identity... 8:30am - 10:00am

Fostering student belonging, professional identity, and career r... 10:05am - 11:05am

Health Disparities as a Framework for Connecting Basic Science, Commu... 11:10am - 12:15pm

Credentialing, Curriculum, and C... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

An online community of practice... 2:05pm - 2:35pm

Think Like an Educator, Lead Like a Microbiologist 2:40pm - 3:50pm

Do your students have difficulty solving novel problems? Teaching them how to reason mechanistic... 8:30am - 10:00am

Cognitive Isn’t Enough: Strategizing the Support of Affective Le... 10:05am - 11:05am

The Right Answer Is Not Enough: Teaching Students to Build and Defend... 11:10am - 12:15pm

The Microbiology Educator Exchan... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Advancing Excellence in Microbio... 2:05pm - 2:35pm

Updating the 2018 Microbiology i... 2:40pm - 3:10pm

Integrating quantitative image analysis into undergraduate courses 8:30am - 10:00am

Bringing Genomics Into the Classroom: A Hands-On Workshop Using... 10:05am - 11:05am

Opportunities, outcomes, and bes... 11:10am - 11:40am

Symbiotic Scholars: Merging GenA... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Publish your Education Study: Turning Classroom Research into Scholar... 1:30pm - 2:35pm

Authors Wanted: Learn How To Publish Your Work in the Journal of Microbiol... 2:40pm - 3:50pm

Beyond BlackInMicro Week: Building Cl... 3:15pm - 3:50pm

Using GenAI to Restore Time-Intensive Teaching Practices and Assess Process Over Product Regardl... 8:30am - 10:00am

AI as a Mindtool: Shifting Student Use from Generating Content t... 10:05am - 11:05am

Co-Designing Course AI Policies with Our Students to Ensure Flexibili... 11:10am - 12:15pm

AI is here – how do educators pl... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Bridging Student Skill Gaps with... 2:05pm - 2:35pm

From Memorize to Mesmerize: Authentic Assessment That's Engaging, Meaningf... 2:40pm - 3:50pm

Plenary with Ann Stevens, raffle, and Closing Comments 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Writing Teachng Case Studies - Case Study Writing Sprint 8:30am - 10:00am

Incorporating effective science communication principles in unde... 10:05am - 11:05am

Your Body’s SuperHero Immune Cel... 11:10am - 11:40am

The Microbe-Neuron Connection: I... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Beyond the Biology: Why We Should Consider An Expanded Interdisciplin... 1:30pm - 2:35pm

Beyond Memorization: Integrating... 2:40pm - 3:10pm

Expanding Undergraduate Research: Dev... 3:15pm - 3:50pm