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Welcome to ASMCUE in Seattle, Washington! Registered attendees are able to download the mobile app onto their phone, create a log-in, and make a personalized schedule and chat with attendees. Questions? Email [email protected]
Thursday, November 19
 

10:00am PST

Activity: Tour and Lunch at the Allen Institute
Thursday November 19, 2026 10:00am - 12:30pm PST
off-site
Pre-registration is required, sign up through the regular ASMCUE registration process. Questions? Email [email protected] mission of the Allen Institute is to accelerate science for a healthier world. We bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers, engineers and technologists to answer some of biology’s biggest questions—revealing how the brain, immune system and cells...
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Thursday November 19, 2026 10:00am - 12:30pm PST
off-site 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  invitation-only event

12:00pm PST

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open
Thursday November 19, 2026 12:00pm - 9:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk

Thursday November 19, 2026 12:00pm - 9:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

1:30pm PST

Workshop 1: Integrating an Immunology Storyline in Your Course with HHMI BioInteractive
Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 335
Pre-registration required through ASMCUE registration process. There are still openings for this workshop.What role can a storyline approach and rich instructional materials play in expanding students’ understanding of the immune system? In this workshop, participants will explore HHMI BioInteractive’s engaging immune system activities, including an illustrated story of smallpox, to introduce...
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MH
HB
Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Pre-conference workshop

1:30pm PST

Workshop 2: Hands-On PCR: Integrating End Point, Quantitative and Digital PCR Technology for Undergraduate Teaching and Research
Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 336
Pre-registration required through ASMCUE registration process. There are still openings for this workshop.Conventional PCR, real-time or quantitative PCR (qPCR) and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) are essential nucleic acid amplification techniques distinguished by their quantitative precision and sensitivity. Conventional PCR enables endpoint detection, qPCR provides real-time quantitative...
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Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Pre-conference workshop

1:30pm PST

Workshop 3: From Course to Publication: A Guide to Environmental Microbiome Analysis With Students
Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 337
Pre-registration required through ASMCUE registration process. There are still openings for this workshop.If you are interested in incorporating bioinformatics or data science concepts into a course, or working with students on data that are immediately publishable, then this workshop is for you! This workshop focuses on collecting and analyzing environmental microbial data and metadata in the...
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ED
ZC
Thursday November 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Pre-conference workshop

4:30pm PST

Affinity dinners (on your own). Advanced sign-up required.
Thursday November 19, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm PST
off-site
Advanced sign-up is required. Sign-up sheet will be available around Nov. 1. If you want to host an affinity dinner, email [email protected] with your proposed topic.
Thursday November 19, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm PST
off-site 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

6:00pm PST

Opening Comments & Plenary by Ben Wiggins
Thursday November 19, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Schedule:6:00-6:25 pm Opening Comments by ASMCUE Chair Aisling Dugan6:30-7:00 pm Plenary talk by Ben WigginsTitle: Exams and Caring: Assessment principles and practices that can push students farther and deepen the student-teacher relationshipAbstract: Assessments have the potential to drive students away from their goals, or to create challenges that creatively motivate them to persist...
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AD
BW
Thursday November 19, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

7:00pm PST

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall

Thursday November 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

7:00pm PST

LuxArt activity (sign-up required)
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Advanced sign-up is required. Use this form to secure your spot in the LuxArt activity at 2026 ASMCUE in Seattle. LuxArt is a fabulous outreach or in-lab activity for students!Participation is limited to the first 75 individuals who are also registered for the full ASMCUE conference. Your host is Mark Martin and Jenny Quinn, University of Puget Sound, who have graciously volunteered to...
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MM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

7:15pm PST

A bioprospecting ethics case study with multi-institution evidence of student learning
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Bioprospecting drives scientific innovation but can be tarnished by ethical challenges (e.g., biopiracy) when prior-informed consent and benefit-sharing are not formally established. Many microbiology courses address bioprospecting, yet curriculum that teaches the ethics of bioprospecting is uncommon. We developed and vetted a bioprospecting case study that can be implemented before students...
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SM
SM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

A bite-sized approach to scaffolding scientific literature interpretation for first year and early students
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Students can be intimidated by finding, navigating, and interpreting primary scientific sources. Meanwhile, students entering health care careers who are reluctant or unable to interpret emerging research miss out on evidence-based treatments or career growth. I offer a method that provides intrinsic opportunities for students of varying abilities and experience in science to experience a...
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KA
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

A low-cost CRISPR gene editing workflow for the college classroom
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In this workflow students use the recombineering method of CRISPR gene editing to replace the LacZ coding sequence with a GFP coding sequence in E. coli cells. Students run through all the steps from purifying plasmid and linear DNA, electroporating E. coli bacteria and then scoring, and interpreting results. Then they modify the guide RNA plasmid to target a different region of the LacZ coding...
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OD
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Active Learning in Microbiology (ALM) – Disseminating Best Practices and Novel Ideas
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Many instructors have discovered, created, or substantially improved a teaching strategy as they teach and develop their courses. One feature that separates scholarly teaching from the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is the dissemination of your ideas to a wider audience. In this session, we will review a few active learning techniques that work well in introductory biological sciences...
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NB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Adapting the EvolvingSTEM CURE: Scaling Up High School Outreach for University-Level Inquiry
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
EvolvingSTEM is a successful high school outreach program that provides authentic research experiences in microbiology, genetics, and evolution. Leveraging the rapid generation times of microbes, students witness “evolution in action,” as bacteria adapt to different selective regimes. We adapted this approach for university students, who have more advanced knowledge, skills, and lab time—but...
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AM
EO
EN
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

AI Meets Microbiology: Building an Infectious Disease Case
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a common tool for students, making it important to teach them how to use it responsibly. We developed a group project for an undergraduate microbiology course in which students use AI to create an infectious disease case study. After researching an assigned infectious disease, each group designs a prompt to generate a realistic clinical case....
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PJ
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Analysis of How Undergraduate Biology STEM Students Integrate AI Tools into their Biology Education: A Multi-course perspective
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated into STEM higher education, making it important to understand how students use and perceive these tools. This study surveyed biology undergraduates over one semester: Genetics sophomores (n=195), Microbiology (n=43), and Cell & Molecular Biology seniors (n=40). About half used AI to prepare for midterms (48%, 53%, and 58%). Claude...
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DR
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Awarding Merit Badges in Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratories to Promote Technique and Build Community
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
As microbiology laboratory students worked in small groups focusing on hands-on, active learning, we noticed class-wide interactions were low; students worked in isolation and left immediately upon completion. To bridge this gap, undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs) suggested a fun, competitive award system. The goal was to acknowledge technical skill and attention to detail while building...
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AD
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Beyond the Classroom: Designing Biology Courses That Recognize Working Learners
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Working students are often framed as distracted or less engaged, yet employment can also cultivate belonging, community cultural wealth, transferable skills, and persistence in STEM. This microbrew translates an analytic autoethnography of working twenty-eight hours per week while pursuing a biology degree into a practical, instructor-facing course reflection tool. Attendees will examine where...
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AE
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Beyond the final product: A process-based framework for observing student learning throughout the writing process in the age of AI
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In response to generative AI, we redesigned an undergraduate Microbiology writing assignment into a process-based framework that consists of a series of interconnected activities integrating content learning, scientific literacy, communication, peer engagement, and responsible AI use. Our framework generates multiple opportunities enabling instructors to observe student learning throughout the...
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HS
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Beyond the Pathogen: Reimagining Microbiology Education Using Infectious Disease History to Teach Health Equity
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Microbiology education often emphasizes the pathogen while giving less attention to the host and environment components of the epidemiological triad. This workshop introduces strategies to help students explore how biology, public health, and social systems interact to influence disease outcomes. Participants will examine the relationships between microbiology, racism, stigma, and health...
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SI
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

BioCrawl: Promoting transparency toward undergraduate research and experiential learning opportunities
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Authentic research and experiential learning experiences are critical in undergraduate student retention and success. However, connecting students to the best opportunity for their educational goals, particularly under resource-limited conditions, is challenging. We started an annual departmental open-house event, called BioCrawl, where we open our teaching and research labs for two hours on a...
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YS
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Biotech Launch: An Experiential Biotechnology Training Program for Community College Students
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The rapid expansion of the biotechnology industry has created an increasing demand for skilled laboratory technicians with industry-recognized competencies. To address this workforce need, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology developed Biotech Launch, an innovative community college partnership designed to prepare students for immediate entry into Alabama's growing biotechnology workforce....
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NM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Breaking the ice: Using video introductions to connect with students and manage large classrooms
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In large STEM classrooms (100+ students), establishing belonging and instructor presence is vital for retention. Yet, traditional icebreakers can induce severe performance anxiety, while institutions require early engagement data for Census reporting. This assignment replaces traditional icebreakers with a private, asynchronous introduction video to balance student connection, digital equity, and...
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CM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Bridging STEM knowledge gaps through a multidisciplinary zebrafish CURE
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Like many colleges and universities, incoming freshmen at our small liberal arts college may not necessarily be prepared with foundational knowledge in chemistry, math, or biology to succeed in STEM coursework. Here, we aimed to address students' knowledge gaps and their feelings of inadequacy by incorporating a multidisciplinary, course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) into their...
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AS
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

BUDDY: A Turnkey Platform to Enable Clinically Relevant Yeast CRISPR Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are often heavily constrained and lack the clinical relevance needed to inspire pre-health majors. To address these issues, we developed BUDDY (Bioinformatic Utility for Diagnostic Discovery in Yeast), an accessible bioinformatic web app. BUDDY transforms a precision medicine bottleneck, the millions of uncharacterized human Variants of...
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BW
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Building a Community Resource for Undergraduate Immunology Laboratories
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
When developing an undergraduate immunology course, instructors often face the challenge of identifying appropriate laboratory activities. There is no centralized collection of undergraduate-friendly immunology labs, and the high cost of reagents poses another obstacle, particularly at resource-limited institutions. As a result, most instructors develop their own activities from scratch. The...
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EC
SP
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Building and implementing a standards-based grading scheme based on the ASM Curriculum Guidelines in a 300-level mixed major Microbiology course
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Traditional grading has a variety of issues, including statistical flaws, fostering a fixed mindset, and inaccurately representing students’ knowledge. Furthermore, the system was founded in the era of industrialization and may disproportionately impact lower-income and underrepresented students. Alternative grading systems have been shown to foster a growth mindset, provide timely formative...
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SC
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Building Research and Workforce Skills Through an Interdisciplinary Fish Microbiome CURE
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) expand access to authentic research and help students build skills for graduate study and workforce preparation. This is especially important at teaching focused, access-oriented institutions, where many students enter the workforce directly after completing their undergraduate degree. We are developing an interdisciplinary CURE in two...
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KK
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Communication Soft Skills in the Sciences and Micro-Credentials
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
‘Soft skills’ has become a buzz term for good reason. The ability to communicate is essential and especially important in the sciences where students regularly present and discuss their work. Unfortunately, though, according to many industry partners, students are often entering the workforce without these crucial skills. As a professor in Communication Studies, I began working closely with...
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KK
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Connecting Microbiology and Oral Health: A Multi-Procedure Laboratory Investigation of Cariogenic Bacteria
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Dental caries is among the most common infectious diseases worldwide, yet students often struggle to connect microbial physiology with tooth decay. To address this gap, we developed a hands-on oral microbiology laboratory activity for undergraduate students that integrates three techniques: the Snyder Test for acid production and caries susceptibility, Sucrose Gelatin Agar for biofilm formation,...
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NB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Cultivating STEM Identity Through Tiny Earth: A Study of Gateway Program Students' Self-Efficacy and Motivation in Undergraduate Antibiotic-Discovery Research
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The Gateway Program is a cohort-based program for first-generation, underrepresented, and low-socioeconomic-status urban students designed to minimize barriers to success in the first year of college, such as attrition from STEM majors. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate and strengthen Gateway Program students' STEM identity, self-efficacy, and persistence. Cycle 1...
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KJ
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

CURE TAPESTRy: A Network to Advance Professional Development of Teaching Assistants for CUREs across Institutions
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have been successfully implemented nationwide, demonstrating gains in students' self-efficacy and science identity. A majority of CUREs have Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) as instructors, including Undergraduate peer Learning Assistants (ULAs). GTAs and ULAs play a critical role in delivering CUREs and often receive little professional...
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JM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Development and Implementation of a DNA Puzzle Builder Activity for Undergraduate Learners
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) stores genetic information required for the development, function, and reproduction of all living organisms. The double helical structure of DNA is formed through complementary base pairing between nucleotides (adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine). Because DNA cannot be directly observed with the naked eye, it can be difficult for learners to connect the structure with...
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KW
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Engaging Students in Immunology Through Student-Created Games
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Immunology is a subject that many learners find difficult to grasp or gain interest in due to the perception that it is a difficult subject and contains content that students have difficulty relating to. Many students avoid taking immunology or perform relatively poorly compared to other classes when they do. Many instructors, on the other hand, find it challenging to create content that is both...
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NA
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Evaluating “Live and Active” Claims: Probiotic Foods as Tractable Systems for Teaching Quantitative Microbiological Skills
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Probiotic foods and the perceived health benefits that they offer continue to be of interest to many consumers, including students in undergraduate microbiology courses. Many of these foods bear label claims about ‘live and active’ cultures and their expected quantities, offering tractable systems for students to apply basic culturing techniques to quantify microbes in these products. A...
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RC
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Evaluating the Experiences of Counterstereotypical Scientists in the Classroom
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
There is a misalignment between the identities of scientists highlighted in STEM curricula and those of students in the classroom. To address this gap, a range of initiatives, such as BioGraphI and Scientist Spotlights, have been developed to better align STEM content with student identities, increasing students’ sense of belonging, persistence, and relatability to scientists. Benefits to...
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Speakers
CM
GB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Examining the role of professional societies in pedagogical mentorship: lessons learned from a community of practice
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
While biological professional societies have historically focused on sharing primary research, their missions have increasingly expanded to encompass education and trainee professional development. Current society-led teaching initiatives—such as pre-conference workshops, dedicated education sections, and curated resource repositories—often rely on short-term "transmission" models and...
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CG
SM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

From Classroom to Community: Using Environmental Justice Projects to Teach Labs
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Environmental justice is an increasingly important component of environmental and public health education, yet students often struggle to connect classroom concepts to real-world community challenges. To address this gap, community-based environmental justice projects were integrated into an undergraduate Environmental Toxicology and Health Laboratory course. Through partnerships with local...
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LC
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

From No Lab Experience to Research Readiness: Supporting Students for Graduate Pathways
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Many undergraduates are excited about research and interested in graduate school, yet many of them reach those opportunities with little or no wet lab experience. In my teaching and mentoring in food science and microbiology, I routinely work with students who are motivated but unsure of how to handle basic lab techniques or what is expected in a research environment. This microbrew will share...
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Speakers
AA
DH
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

From Phenotype to Genotype: Integrating Microbial Physiology with Genetics through Two Inquiry-Based Laboratory Modules
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
At Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), Argentina, Microbial Physiology and Genetics are taught as independent courses in consecutive semesters, although both explain the same biological processes from complementary perspectives. In this Microbrew, we propose an integrated teaching strategy for undergraduate Biotechnology students in which laboratory activities from both courses are linked...
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JM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Glow Up: Transforming pGLO into a Collaborative, Quantitative CURE for Biology Majors
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
“Glow Up” (BIOL 3090) reimagined a standard pGLO transformation lab into a collaborative undergraduate research experience at UNT Dallas. Although the pGLO transformation system is widely used, it is almost always qualitative. This CURE redesigned pGLO as a quantitative research platform in which transformation efficiency, measured as GFP-positive colony counts per microgram of plasmid DNA,...
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BS
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Improving Consistency and Efficiency in Grading Quantitative Data Analysis through Automated Validation of Student Laboratory Calculations
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Grading quantitative data analysis in laboratory courses is often inconsistent because each student generates unique experimental data, making it difficult for teaching assistants (TAs) to verify calculations efficiently and accurately. This challenge can result in variable grading and overlooked calculation errors. To address this issue, we developed standardized Excel templates for student data...
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Speakers
JH
CB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Improving STEM retention by utilizing CUREs, external partnerships, and microcredentials
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Focus on industry requested skills development has led to several new innovations to increase retention, STEM identity, and workforce readiness. Introducing research and STEM based skills to undergraduates at the beginning of their educational journey is highly impactful for first generation, low income college students. CUREs (Course based Undergraduate Research Experiences) are used to allow...
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Speakers
GB
LB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Leveraging a Public Database based on Student Discoveries
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Have you been looking for a way to incorporate data analysis into your classroom? In the Tiny Earth CURE, students search for novel antibiotic-producing soil microbes and record their findings in an electronic lab notebook with the option for high-quality entries to be promoted to the Tiny Earth Public Database. The public data serve are available for any student to ask and answer research...
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MK
SM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Looking Forward to Nursing: A Weekly Framework for Teaching Microbiology with Purpose and Relevance for Nursing Track Students
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Microbiology is foundational to nursing education, yet many students approach it with a “learn it now, forget it later” mindset, limiting long-term retention and transfer to clinical practice. This Microbrew introduces Looking Forward to Nursing, a classroom framework that explicitly connects weekly microbiology concepts to authentic nursing practice throughout the course. Instead of...
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LK
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Making Classroom Engagement Sweeter: Using a Case Study on Diabetes to teach Metabolism and Empathy
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Want to use case studies? Here, we present a case study designed for upper-division courses that teaches diabetes metabolism by following the compelling story of a patient initially misdiagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, integrating various learning activities. This case has been extensively tested, showing significant learning gains. Attendees of this workshop will experience an abbreviated form of...
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RB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Myco-Ed: Empowering Students to Decode Fungal Diversity and Tolerance
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery (Myco-Ed) engages students in fungal biology and comparative genomics by isolating environmental fungi and performing phenotype assays. Data are shared via iNaturalist to support research at the Joint Genome Institute. Since its pilot 2.5 years ago, Myco-Ed has trained over 600 students across 30 classrooms, resulting in 1,100+ observations...
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CG
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

No Code, No Budget, No Problem: Vibe Code Your Own Zero-Cost Microbiology Lab Tool with AI
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Think you need a coding background or a budget to build custom software for your course? You don't. In this hands-on workshop, you will vibe code: describe what you want in plain English and let AI build it. Using MicroID Lab Guide, a free, open-source unknown bacterial-identification app, you will fork (duplicate) the code, deploy your own copy, and customize it for your class without writing...
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MB
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

Structured for Success: Enhancing Equity in STEM Through Scaffolded Assessment Design
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
How can we create equitable assessments that accurately measure student learning? This workshop explores how scaffolded summative assessments aligned with learning taxonomies can promote higher-order thinking, improve student performance, and enhance transparency in STEM education. Drawing on evidence from a sophomore-level undergraduate cell biology course, participants will examine strategies...
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SM
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:15pm PST

The Curious, The Cautious, and The Convinced: A Role-Play Activity for Effective Vaccine Communication
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Vaccine communication has always been challenging, from the belief that one might sprout horns and hooves from the smallpox vaccine, to the misconception that vaccines cause autism, to current confusion when immunization guidelines diverge from the recommendations of established medical and public health authorities. Students preparing for careers across the health sciences—nursing, medicine,...
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AR
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:15pm - 8:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

7:30pm PST

GIDEON Informatics: Product & Author Corner
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:30pm - 8:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
GIDEON® (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) is your ultimateplatform for all infectious diseases and epidemiology information. Known for its exhaustivecontent, GIDEON® is updated daily by a global team of medical scientists. The platformincludes 470K+ expert-reviewed references, 130K+ surveys, 39K+ outbreaks, and much more.GIDEON® data, interactive tools, and dynamic...
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JT
Thursday November 19, 2026 7:30pm - 8:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees
 
Friday, November 20
 

7:00am PST

JMBE Editors' breakfast
Friday November 20, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am PST
Room 335
Speakers
SM
ML
Friday November 20, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  invitation-only event

7:30am PST

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open
Friday November 20, 2026 7:30am - 4:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk

Friday November 20, 2026 7:30am - 4:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

8:30am PST

ABRCMS/ASMCUE Joint Keynote
Friday November 20, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am PST
tba
More to be announced at a later date.
Friday November 20, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am PST
tba 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

9:45am PST

An interdisciplinary CURE for Infectious Disease: Community Co-design of Competencies and Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for the Future Workforce
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Rooms 333 & 334
In early 2026, the Pathogen Data Network (PDN) convened an international group of educators, researchers, and industry professionals to develop a new framework for infectious disease education. Rather than beginning with course content, participants identified the competencies needed for today's data-intensive workforce and used them to guide the design of modular Course-based Undergraduate...
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JW
CG
CM
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

9:45am PST

Commensals are Mutualists, and "Pathogen" is Passé. Discuss.
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Rooms 338 & 339
From the earliest days of medical microbiology,;"pathogens", and "hosts" have been pitted against each other in our classrooms and research labs.  War metaphors for describing the immune system are still staples in our teaching and our writing. Since the microbiome revolution, prominent microbiologists, such as Arturo Casadevall, Thomas Bosch, and Martin Blaser, have argued for a lexicon that...
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KC
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

9:45am PST

Community College Roundtable: Faculty Voices from the Community College Classroom
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 336
This session is a semi-structured networking opportunity for community college educators. Let's talk about issues, concerns, and timely topics that are on the minds of most faculty at 2-year schools, including: how do we find the time to balance all the things we want to do, strategies for professional development, and finding your community.
Speakers
HT
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

9:45am PST

Critical Conversations Regarding Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Instructional Uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 337
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are pivotal to undergraduate biology education, yet they often receive limited, if any, pedagogical professional development during their tenure in the classroom (Schussler et al., 2015). Emergent technologies, such as generative AI (GenAI), compound this constraint and present unique opportunities and challenges for the graduate student educator. Research...
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Speakers
JO
AR
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

9:45am PST

From Archives to the Classroom: Building a Community and Developing Resources to Integrate History into Microbiology Education
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 335
Historical perspectives can help students explore the nature of science, the development of microbiological knowledge, and the connections between microbes, society, and human health. This roundtable discussion will introduce educators to the American Society for Microbiology Committee on the History of Microbiology and Archives (CHOMA), including collections that can be incorporated into...
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SI
Friday November 20, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

10:30am PST

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open
Friday November 20, 2026 10:30am - 12:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall

Friday November 20, 2026 10:30am - 12:30pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

10:45am PST

Assessing Students Understanding of a Microbial Mitosis and Meiosis Teaching Tool
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background: Mitosis and meiosis are two crucial cellular division processes that happen in most eukaryotic organisms. In core biology and microbiology courses, students often are taught mitosis and meiosis with humans as a model organism with little inclusion of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms using bacteria, fungi, protozoa and algae. Microorganisms are extremely diverse and often have...
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Speakers
EH
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Assessing Students’ Perceptions of Motivational Climate in Microbiology Education
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Student motivation is a determinant of their engagement and persistence in learning activities. There is limited evidence on how students perceive their motivation in undergraduate microbiology courses in modules with different content. This study investigated the extent to which students' perceptions of the motivational climate in an undergraduate Food Microbiology course (a) varied across three...
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Speakers
TL
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Beyond Action Verbs: Specification of Context in Learning Objectives Published by Professional Biology Societies
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Learning Objectives (LOs) convey student-centered goals of academic courses and programs. Further, lesson-level LOs have the potential to communicate to learners both the lesson’s content goal and the expected cognitive level of the content mastery. To effectively accomplish this communication, best practices in LO writing include the use of verbs that correspond to measurable actions and...
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RA
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Bridging Community College and University STEM Pathways: The Impact of Mentoring, High-Impact Practices, and Scholarships on Transfer Success
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Community colleges play a critical role in expanding access to STEM education for low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented students. Yet nationally, only 31.6% of first-time community college students transfer to a four-year institution within six years, and fewer than half of those students complete a bachelor’s degree (48.7%). To address these challenges, the National...
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Speakers
RK
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Faculty Perceptions of AI in Immunology and Microbiology Courses
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background: As artificial intelligence (AI) tools rapidly evolve, higher education faculty face the dual challenge of leveraging these technologies for course development while navigating their impact on student learning. Understanding how educators engage with these tools is essential for shaping future life science pedagogy. Research Question: To what extent, and for what specific pedagogical...
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Speakers
AL
BM
SH
TV
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

From Self-Assessment to Improved Learning Strategies: Promoting Student Learning and Success Through Exam Wrappers in an Introductory Biology Course
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Molecules to Ecosystems is our second-semester Introductory Biology course that challenges students to make connections across scales. Students complete four unit exams and a cumulative final that requires them to analyze figures and data, transfer knowledge to new scenarios, and synthesize concepts in short answer responses. As such, this course can be challenging for students with varying levels...
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Speakers
MW
SA
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

How does Peer Review and Social Annotation affect learning and sense of belonging in the online classroom?
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Social annotation tools like Perusall or Hypothes.is allow students to collaborate and discuss course material in quick, short annotations, providing a platform to engage with both the course material and fellow students. Social annotation assignments often instruct students to comment on a text, website, journal article, etc. Rarely do we see social annotation used to evaluate fellow peers’...
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Speakers
MB
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Improving Undergraduate Student Engagement In STEM Through Bioinformatics Research
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The Characterizing Our DNA Exceptions (CODE) program is a network of postsecondary educators and science researchers who integrate authentic bioinformatics research into undergraduate classrooms. The program’s primary goal is to increase genomic literacy and access to research-based learning experiences, particularly for smaller and under-resourced institutions. This study aims to understand how...
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YR
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Innovating Nursing Education Through Virtual Simulation: Evaluating an Intervention to Strengthen Confidence in Communication Skills with Vaccine-Hesitant Patients
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Vaccine hesitancy remains a major public health concern, and nurses often serve as the first point of contact for patients seeking vaccine information. Yet, many nursing students are underprepared to engage in these complex and emotionally charged conversations. This improvement science study examined how a virtual simulation could strengthen first-year nursing students’ confidence and...
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JM
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Instructor implementation of published biology lessons preserve core materials and content while varying in the structure of student activities
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The Vision and Change (V&C) report called for biology departments to transform their programs by using student-centered teaching approaches and integrating core concepts and competences throughout their curriculum. The biology education community has responded to this call in a variety of ways, including the development, sharing, and implementation of open educational resources (OERs) that apply...
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AF
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Integrating Science and Art through Eco-Columns and MudWatt Systems: A Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Model
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background: “Science through art” is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that integrates science education with artistic expression to enhance learning. This method engages students, fosters critical thinking, and prepares them for real-world problem-solving. In this study, eco-columns, constructed from recycled 2-liter soda bottles, were utilized to simulate ecosystems, while soil...
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Speakers
BP
JV
IG
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Integration of a Tiny Earth CURE into a Microbiology Course and Student Perceptions of Research
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Antibiotic resistance in pathogens is predicted to be a leading cause of death worldwide. Tiny Earth (TE) is an established Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) with an international network of students and faculty who participate in the discovery of antibiotic-producing microbes. CUREs provide opportunities for all students enrolled in a course to develop their research skills,...
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MT
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Listening to Learn: Professional Microbiology Podcast Annotation Boosts Student Content Mastery and Motivation for Engaging with Primary Literature
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Reading primary literature by students is both a valuable skill that promotes critical thinking and a pedagogical tool that reinforces and enhances core concepts. These functions are particularly critical in Microbiology education given the growing prevalence of misinformation. Barriers such as lack of resources and student engagement prevent effective implementation of primary literature...
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AG
GK
RS
NB
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Measuring Student Growth in a Microbiology CURE Using Course Learning Outcomes and Persistence Measures
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Course-based undergraduate research experiences help students see themselves as scientists, but instructors need practical ways to evaluate what students are gaining from them beyond standard course evaluations. In MIMG 103AL/BL, a two-quarter microbiology sequence at UCLA, students participate in a virology CURE. This study asks: To what extent do students in a microbiology CURE report growth in...
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TB
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Microbe Invader as a Gamification Strategy for Teaching and Applying Biochemical Tests and Diagnostic Algorithms for Bacterial ID in a General Microbiology Course
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Biochemical identification of pathogens is a core component of General Microbiology courses. However, traditional instruction, centered on memorizing diagnostic algorithms, often limits students' ability to achieve practical and lasting application of this knowledge. Gamification has been proposed as an effective strategy to increase engagement and consolidate complex technical content in health...
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Speakers
CC
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Neuro-Narrative Pedagogy in Anatomy and Physiology: Preliminary Evidence for Long-Term Retention and Transfer of Learning Among Future Healthcare Professionals
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background: Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) serves as a foundational course for students pursuing healthcare professions. However, long-term retention and application of biological knowledge beyond course completion remain challenging, particularly when educational approaches rely heavily on memorization. Despite growing interest in active learning and narrative-based instruction, relatively few...
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Speakers
JG
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Passing the Knowledge: Evaluating Undergraduates' Understanding of and Ability to Communicate Applied Microbiology to Non-Scientific Audiences
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Scientists often encounter challenges when communicating complex scientific concepts to nonexpert audiences. Effective communication plays a critical role in shaping public understanding of scientific issues and perceptions of scientific experts. Establishing students’ baseline knowledge of the field and scientific communication skills can help identify areas where undergraduate curricula may...
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Speakers
JW
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Reducing Barriers in Large STEM Courses Through Automated, Inclusive Feedback
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Large-enrollment undergraduate STEM courses present persistent challenges for student engagement, belonging, and success. While Learning Management Systems (LMS) are widely adopted, their use in face-to-face courses is often limited to grade posting and announcements, overlooking their potential to deliver timely, personalized support at scale. This study examined how automated Brightspace...
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Speakers
SS
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Reducing the barrier between undergraduate students and academic research using UC Davis Plant Pathology Department research as a model
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
UC Davis has a rich history of plant pathology research. The research has had remarkable societal outcomes, such as producing stress- and disease-resistant plant varieties and providing comprehensive disease management support to California farmers. However, it is unclear how familiar first-year and transfer students are with the academic research model and if they know how to become involved in...
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Speakers
MC
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Reexamining High-Impact Practices: Peer Leadership Assistant Development in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Peer leadership programs are recognized as high-impact practices that promote student engagement, belonging, persistence, and success in STEM. However, assessment efforts often focus on the students receiving support while overlooking the developmental gains of the peer leaders themselves. As peer-assisted learning becomes increasingly integrated into course-based undergraduate research...
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Speakers
CH
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Safeguarding Food Security Using Plant Pathogen Genomics in a Cohort-based Undergraduate Research Experience
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Much of undergraduate scientific education focuses on facts, but not on how to apply that information, which is why many courses include laboratory units for hands-on experience. However, standard laboratory curricula are less effective for computational genomics, where students must make frequent decisions and interpret data while working through an unfamiliar workflow. Computational genomics is...
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Speakers
NG
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Scaffolded Laboratory Instruction Improves Laboratory Competency in an Informal Secondary Microbiology Program
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Students entering microbiology laboratories often have limited experience with fundamental laboratory techniques, making it difficult to simultaneously develop technical proficiency and conceptual understanding. Informal STEM learning environments provide opportunities for authentic, hands-on scientific experiences that complement traditional classroom instruction; however, quantitative...
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Speakers
LV
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Scaffolding or Gatekeeping: The relationship between student demographics and prior preparation (biology prerequisite completion) on student performance in a microbiology course
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Evidence on whether introductory biology prerequisites improve success in microbiology is mixed. Foundational biology has been described as important for nursing and medical education (Durrant et al., 2017; Krol et al., 2019), and McCoy and Pierce (2004) reported pass rates of 80% with prerequisites versus 53% without. In contrast, Shaffer et al. (2016) found limited downstream benefits of...
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Speakers
MM
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Schrödinger's Syllabus: How Students Navigate AI Policies in a State of Uncertainty
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Relevance & Adoption: Faculty establish classroom norms and course policies in response to emerging challenges. During the transition to online instruction, developed guidelines for camera use (Castelli & Sarvary, 2021)., as assignment extensions increased, adopted more inclusive policies (Ruesch & Sarvary, 2024). Today, generative artificial intelligence (GAI) represents a new challenge requiring...
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Speakers
MS
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Seeing the Invisible: Connecting Microbiology, Public Health, and Science Communication Through Photovoice
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Emerging infectious diseases are shaped by microbiology and the environmental and socio-economic factors that influence transmission, yet these interactions are often difficult to illustrate through traditional classroom and laboratory activities. Photovoice, a participatory visual research method in which participants use photography to document and interpret their surroundings, has the potential...
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Speakers
BM
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

The effectiveness on student outcomes utilizing time management in a flipped classroom
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
MGI 301 is an introductory upper-level microbiology course. The course employs a flipped classroom model where students are expected to self regulate a significant portion of their learning outside of the classroom. We have observed that students that struggle in this course often do not utilize formal time management strategies to manage their learning. Our study aims to determine whether...
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Speakers
HM
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

The Importance of Peer-Peer Interaction and Team Dynamics in Managing Spread of Watermelon Meow Meow Disease: A Simulated Outbreak Activity in a Public Health Engineering Course
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Public health education has increasingly emphasized the importance of engaging students in the active exploration of complex epidemiological concepts ranging from data analytics to transmission dynamics (Wykoff et al., 2013). Previously, a simulated outbreak of the fictitious pathogen, Watermelon Meow Meow (WMM), was studied in the context of an upper-division infectious diseases course (McAndrew...
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Speakers
GS
JO
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Timing is Everything: The Varying Effects of Just-in-Time Refreshers in Microbiology
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In our large-enrollment general microbiology course, students arrive with highly variable foundational knowledge due to diverse prerequisite pathways, including AP credits and transfer coursework alongside completion at our institution. This inconsistent baseline in fundamental biology and chemistry negatively impacts their ability to synthesize complex, advanced microbiology concepts. To address...
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Speakers
CA
JA
JG
SI
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

We Took It Twice: Student Insights on Experiencing Both Traditional and CURE Formats of a Biochemistry Lab
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Undergraduate research experiences have been shown to improve students' critical thinking skills, increase retention in STEM, and foster scientific identity and belonging. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) provide an inclusive model by embedding authentic research into laboratory coursework. Following the transition of MCB120L from a traditional laboratory course to a CURE...
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Speakers
JH
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

10:45am PST

Wikipedia, AI and Science Communication: Student Perceptions Across Three Cohorts
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background Science communication and information literacy are essential graduate competencies in STEM, yet opportunities to develop these skills through authentic assessment vary considerably (Brownell et al., 2013). Developed with Wikimedia Australia, a Wikipedia-based group assessment requires microbiology students to compare a Wikipedia article and an AI-generated article on the same topic for...
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Speakers
KM
Friday November 20, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  BER Poster

11:15am PST

Carolina Science: Microbiology Beyond the Campus Bench
Friday November 20, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PST
Rooms 333 & 334
This is a sponsored Product & Author Corner by Carolina Science

Description: Discover how to bring safe, engaging, hands-on microbiology to students—wherever they learn. You’ll leave with a practical framework for aligning kits, access, safety, digital resources, and assessments with your course outcomes.
 

Speakers
KB

Kerry Balbirona

Business Development Manager, Distance Learning, Carolina Science
Friday November 20, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

1:30pm PST

Creating Team Charters for Student Development of Workforce-Relevant Skills
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 337
Team projects can deepen learning by promoting engagement and collaboration, but effective teams do not simply emerge on their own. Successful teams make use of shared goals, clear communication, trust, and shared leadership; skills that employers seek in new graduates. This workshop will explore practical ways instructors can help students build stronger, more collaborative teams through the use...
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CG
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

1:30pm PST

EduHack: A Collaborative Framework for Rapid Curriculum Development
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 336
Keeping undergraduate biology curricula current with rapidly evolving bioinformatics tools, datasets, and computational methods can be challenging. This interactive mini-workshop introduces EduHack, an educator-focused framework that adapts hackathon principles for collaborative curriculum development and will be implemented by the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Training Center to develop...
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AD
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

1:30pm PST

Integrating AI/ML Copilot Into Undergraduate Microbiology Education for Machine Learning Data Discovery
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 335
This workshop will use dual active learning, participant execution and examining a deployed student machine learning (ML) use case, to better understand how to develop and run ML code for course assignments. Using a simulation case assignment of predicted MS phenotype based on IL-17 expression after microbial exposure, participants will examine the implementation and run ML code. Participants will...
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XP
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

1:30pm PST

Why teach TO the test if you can teach THROUGH the test? An introduction to two-stage exams and other (fun!) collaborative assessments
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Instructors typically dedicate hours of in-class time to assess student mastery, sacrificing valuable learning time in the process. Happily, it’s possible to accomplish both assessment and learning through a two-stage exam format in which students complete an exam form first on their own and then with classmates. In this workshop, I will describe the two-stage exam structure in more detail and...
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MM
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

1:30pm PST

Writing Federal Grants in the Current Funding Landscape
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
The landscape for federal grant-based funding has shifted dramatically over the past 18 months, and will change even more if the proposed OMB revisions are approved. Educators who are interested in applying for federal funding will need to understand what these changes are and how the changes will impact their future funding applications. It will be critical for educators to be able to design...
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ED
Friday November 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

2:15pm PST

Exhibit & Poster Hall Open
Friday November 20, 2026 2:15pm - 4:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall

Friday November 20, 2026 2:15pm - 4:00pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

2:30pm PST

Active Experimental Strategies for Teaching Oral Infections and Salivary Antimicrobial Peptides
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
This interactive mini-workshop demonstrates experimental approaches to teaching oral infections and antimicrobial salivary peptides in undergraduate microbiology courses. Participants will engage in guided activities simulating antimicrobial assays and host–microbe interactions to explore innate immune defenses. The session emphasizes active learning, inclusive teaching strategies, and practical...
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RK
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

BactID.com: A bacterial identification website tool created with AI
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Many microbiology labs use series of biochemical testing to obtain a putative identification of a bacterial isolate's identity. The analysis of biochemical testing data becomes increasingly challenging when working with unknown microbial isolates. This is large part due to the fact that many, if not most, bacteria are not yet identified. BactID.com is a tool used to help students analyze these...
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SM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Beyond Lab Safety: Teaching Biosafety and Biosecurity Through Real-World Applications
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Biosafety and biosecurity are increasingly important for students entering the biological sciences, but these topics are often limited to laboratory safety training or briefly discussed within other courses. MICR 202, “Introduction to Biosafety and Biosecurity,” was developed to give undergraduate students a broader understanding of biological risks and the responsibilities associated with...
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CO
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Electronic laboratory simulations for microbiology: proven tools, tradeoffs and AI considerations
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Although laboratory benchwork remains the superior way to educate future microbiologists, some students (e.g. non-microbiologists), circumstances (e.g. health or resource constraints) and concepts (such as those that are difficult to visualize) can justify an electronic simulation(s) if they actually enhance student learning. This roundtable is a place to : 1) Identify and compile list(s) of...
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RR
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Hallmarks: An Educational Simulator of Cancer Evolution
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Cancer is a complex disease characterized by several hundred genetic alterations that lead to “hallmark” phenotypes. Understanding how natural selection plays a role in cancer development is challenging for undergraduate students because mutations that are advantageous at the cellular level are deleterious at the organismal level. Students must therefore reason about evolution principles...
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PS
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

How can we prepare introductory interdisciplinary courses for success in STEM?
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Our current biology curriculum includes a three-course introductory series where the first course (BIO160) results in a bimodal distribution of grades. The group of students with the lower grades are roughly the same cohort of underprepared students that place into and take the remedial chemistry course. The biology introductory series is transitioning from three to only two courses and BIO160...
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GC
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Hunting Viruses for Undergraduate Engagement in the Molecular Biology Lab
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Viruses are ubiquitous molecular parasites whose productive and rapid infectious cycles make them ideal tools in molecular and evolutionary biology. While viruses have important roles in molecular biology, exploring environmental viral diversity offers an open-ended opportunity for undergraduate research. Here, I present a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) centered in the...
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ID
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Improvement in Retention and Graduation rates in the wake of tightening academic policies and standards in Biomedical Science undergraduate programs
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background and Project Description: The University of Central Florida is a large (70,000+) metropolitan research institution (R1) that serves a diverse student body with a substantial number of transfer students. The Burnett School offers five undergraduate degree programs in life sciences. In response to a lack of student preparation at both the concept and course level, the School implemented...
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WS
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Improving Student Engagement in a Large Microbiology Classroom
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Student engagement on a holistic level can be difficult to achieve in large undergraduate STEM classes. Often, the level of engagement can be contributed to student previous exposure to content and educational background. Student motivation, specifically self-efficacy, and sense of belonging in the classroom can also be major contributors to student success. Each year, we classify 15% of the...
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KH
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Integrating Public Health into Microbiology Education: Lessons Learned as a CDC Science Ambassador Fellow
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Science Ambassador Fellowship is a professional development opportunity that connects science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators with public health professionals to integrate public health concepts, practices, and resources into classrooms. As a 2024–2025 CDC Science Ambassador Fellow, I participated in an orientation...
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SI
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Integration of Microbiology Course Learning Outcomes with Agar Art Laboratory Activity.
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Agar art is a fun way to engage allied health students in microbiology. Students “paint” with microbes on agar plates. The goal of this study was to explore the success of integrating semester-long microbiology concepts into an agar art laboratory experience. Students completed standard laboratory experiments throughout the semester, including growth condition variations and differential...
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CB
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Interactive Approaches to Teaching Microbiome Research Concepts in Informal Learning Environments
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Microbiome science has broad applications in agriculture, human health, and environmental sustainability, yet educational opportunities often depend on laboratory-intensive experiences that can be difficult to implement in resource-limited settings. The Agricultural Microbiome Program (AMP) developed a series of art-, game-, and analogy-based activities that modeled key stages of the microbiome...
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AM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Learning from Peers: Exploring the Benefits of Structured Peer Feedback in Higher Education
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Research on peer feedback in higher education shows that it can significantly improve student success. Studies suggest that peer feedback exposes students to diverse perspectives and encourages them to reconsider assignment criteria, strengthening their revisions and future writing performance (Huisman et al., 2019; Jin et al., 2024). Effective peer-feedback processes focus on specific writing...
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RK
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Microbe Memory Cards: A Game‑Based Outreach Tool for Microbiology Awareness and Recruitment
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Early exposure to microbiology is often limited in many K-12 settings, which contributes to low awareness of microbes and microbiology-related career pathways. To support microbiology outreach and recruitment to our undergraduate Microbiology and Immunology program, we developed Microbe Memory Cards, a fun, interactive, and scalable educational game designed for community engagement and classroom...
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DC
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

MicrobéMon - A semester-long, gamified research project emphasizing information literacy and ethical AI use while exploring microbial structure and function.
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
MicrobéMon is like Pokémon with microbes! This innovative project asks students to choose a microbe relevant to their interests and to research its structure and properties. The goal? To create a microbial trading card for use in a final showdown, where students demonstrate their understanding of their “villain” (pathogen) or “hero” (beneficial microbe) by predicting how it will survive...
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CG
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Microbiology in STEM education: strengthening interdisciplinary connections
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Microbiology is a core course in many STEM programs of study where student success significantly depends on their understanding of the underlying concepts of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Yet the incoming students of microbiology often have insufficient background knowledge of these fields. Furthermore, they do not necessarily see the connections between these disciplines and Microbiology...
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GK
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Program Growth of Skills-Based Academia: Case Study in Biotechnology
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Community colleges provide skilled workers for local industry and prepare students to further their academic careers. Thus, to optimize student success, institutions need to provide high-quality education that trains the workforce at all levels. Herein, I discuss program growth of a skills-based curriculum at a community college for university transfer. Northwest Arkansas Community College offers...
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GB
LB
MC
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Prompting a Conversation: Exploring the use of AI to Develop Better Assessments and Activities for Medical Microbiology
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Upper-level microbiology courses like medical microbiology are historically best taught using realistic case studies, in-class activities, and laboratory-centered content. However, students struggle on assessments due to the content depth and breadth. This project’s goal is to investigate the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving learning outcomes and the student experience in...
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JP
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Round table discussion-worksheet: the new written lab report
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
When I had to adapt a microbiology lab class for a condensed summer course, The schedule did not allow time to write the last report. Since I knew at this point that my students could write lab reports, I came up with an alternative assessment modality. My students read reviews on the project followed by a round-table discussion about how to frame the data and report. It became evident to the...
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BM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Science Literacy - A Semester Long Project
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Learn about a full-term project focused on science research, science literacy, and science communication, which also incorporates the use of an AI platform. Students begin by selecting their own topic which relates to course content, and they then run their topic through the AI platform to generate research questions. One of the AI generated questions is selected and one of the linked references...
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JO
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Shifting from a Performance Orientation to a Mastery Orientation: Helping Students Foster Intrinsic Motivation
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
A question that I often get as a microbiology instructor for an undergraduate medical laboratory science (MLS) program is "What do I need to know for the exam?". Students often seem to focus more "getting an A" rather than striving to master course content that they will need to know to become entry-level competent as an MLS. As an educator, I am interested implementing activities that encourage...
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RB
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Student as Partner (SAP) - an innovative approach to teach an upper level Immunology Class
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In advanced fields including immunology, it is challenging for educators to balance the influx of terminology and techniques with developing engaging curriculum. Educators, particularly in microbiology and immunology classes are faced with integrating and transmitting information from the arena into the classroom in a way that is simply understandable by the students. We have developed a...
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JT
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Students as teachers in undergraduate biotechnology studies
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Within elective study course “Technologies for Bioenergy and Biomolecule Production” each semester at least one student is encouraged to take lead and act as a lecturer by preparing a lecture on topic related to individual Thesis work but fitting within the boundaries of the course thematics. In study year 2024/2025 a student developing Thesis on synthesis and study of the properties of...
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LM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Students teaching peers about molecular and systemic drug function using a video-based assessment strategy
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Non-traditional project-based assessments can make learning more memorable and engaging because students can explore topics of interest and apply their knowledge in creative ways. This Microbrew will describe a unique assessment strategy being used in a biochemistry and molecular biology course where students work in groups to create a drug education video. Students conduct research about a drug...
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AT
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Supporting Learning and Engagement through a Classroom-Based Peer Matching Tool for STEM Students
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Students entering college, especially first-year students, often struggle to adapt to the pace and volume of STEM coursework. Besides mastering course content, many need support developing effective study strategies. While academic success centers, tutoring, and time-management resources are useful, research shows that peer-to-peer learning opportunities significantly enhance student success....
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DL
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Teach Together: A Cross-Course Collaboration to Connect Microbiology and Nursing Practice
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Teach Together is a collaborative teaching model at Nightingale College in which a general education instructor and a nursing instructor align their courses' learning objectives and topics to bridge foundational knowledge and clinical nursing practice. The approach emphasizes meaningful intersections that embrace intentionality over totality, which makes learning authentic and professionally...
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LK
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Teaching microbial morphology, growth and metabolism through specific microbial pathogenesis examples.
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Microbial morphology, growth, and metabolism are foundational topics in both introductory and advanced microbiology courses. Yet these concepts are often taught in isolation, leaving students with limited understanding of their role in pathogenesis and disease outcomes. This workshop will explore how clinically relevant pathogens can be used to connect microbial traits with mechanisms of...
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JD
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Teaching with AI, not against it: Redesigning a Microbiology writing assignment for the AI era
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Traditional writing assignments are vulnerable to circumvention through generative AI. To address this in our online Microbiology lab, we redesigned a writing assignment to intentionally integrate AI while emphasizing the writing process and final product. Students collaborate with AI to develop a script for a 5-minute video comparing Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus, then...
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HS
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

The Benefit of Faculty Externships in the Local Biotech Ecosystem
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Community college faculty serve as a valuable link between students and their opportunities in employment and continued education. Yet, we would benefit from improved insight into new research and innovation, technical skillsets, and workforce expectations. Collaborations between academia and external partners are a terrific source of enrichment for faculty that translate to relevant classroom and...
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BB
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: A Community of Educators Supporting Evolution and Revolution in STEM Education
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
BioQUEST is a long-standing (over 35 years) 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that serves as a support community for STEM educators interested in reforming their teaching and learning practices. BioQUEST’s mission is to build a transformative, collaborative community that empowers teachers to drive innovation in STEM education for all students. In support of this mission, BioQUEST provides...
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CG
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

The Lab Notebook Quiz: a quick measure of student recordkeeping in a large, non-majors microbiology lab course
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Maintaining a laboratory notebook helps students hone their record-keeping and meet the ASM curriculum guidelines for scientific thinking and laboratory skills 1d, “Document and communicate the methods, results, and conclusions.” However, grading a laboratory notebook is time-consuming for the instructor and, for hand-written lab notebooks, there is an additional challenge of reading student...
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RA
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

The Science Behind Every Bite: A Science-Enriched Recipe Book to Promote Scientific Literacy and Cultural Connections
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Fermented food products are an accessible and familiar entry point to first introduce students to microbiology. By connecting microbial processes to food, students can connect how ingredients, microorganisms, environmental conditions, and scientific innovation interact to produce fermented products. This Microbrew will present a science-enriched fermented recipe book assignment for a 100-level...
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KE
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Three Hands-on Activities to Teach the Genetics of B- and T-cell Receptor Diversity, MHC Diversity, and Positive and Negative Selection of T cells in an Undergraduate Immunology Course
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Undergraduate Immunology courses are of high interest but particularly challenging for students due to the involvement of myriad cells and soluble factors involved in an immune response, as well as several unusual genetic mechanisms key to aspects of adaptive immunity. This presentation will describe three hands-on activities for teaching fundamental genetic and developmental mechanisms of the...
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CH
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Transforming quantitative biology-first education for undergraduates: attitudes, barriers, and future opportunities
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Quantitative methods, a term covering computational, mathematical and statistical approaches in biology, are a major component of modern microbiology. However, undergraduate education on these techniques is typically housed in non-biology departments and developed from a mathematics-first perspective. This separation is compounded by historical adversarial relationships between mathematicians and...
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KK
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Updating our education on chromatin structure-functional diversity within and outside of prokaryotes
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
The American educational system hosts an asymmetry between the standards for initial adoption of curricular content versus its critical reworking. I argue that this dichotomy is especially present in our teaching of chromatin – the organized structure of DNA and its associated proteins – across the different domains of life. Prokaryotes, and in particular bacteria, have been continually...
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WM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Using Heat Maps to Promote Interactive Engagement in Large Lecture Halls
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In recent years, the addition of heatmaps have become available to instructors as in-class engagement opportunities whereby students click a location on a provided image in response to a prompt. Here, I describe an additional implementation that incorporates interactive lecture hall activities with over 100 students. Using an image of distinct sections of a lecture hall, I have students simulate...
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KQ
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Using Narrative-Based Learning to Enhance Engagement and Conceptual Understanding in an Undergraduate Immunology Course
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Upper division immunology courses often emphasize complex cellular and molecular mechanisms while offering limited insight into the human stories behind scientific discovery. To address this gap and to boost student engagement and understanding of textbook content and challenging immunological concepts, students first read a nonfiction biographical science narrative in full before beginning the...
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AV
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Using Primary Literature to Teach GenAI Literacy and Science Communication Skills in Microbiology
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Reading primary scientific literature (PSL) in the biology classroom has been associated with various positive outcomes. Therefore, it is crucial to integrate reading PSL into science courses. Similarly, there has been an increased need for science communication (SciComm) skills and generative AI (GenAI) literacy in the workforce. This microbrew details the creation of a 3-module curriculum that...
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HL
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Using the Cell Collective platform to model and manipulate an immunological signaling pathway in an introductory mixed-major Microbiology course
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Many biological systems are exceptionally complex, often including a variety of cellular and molecular interactions. This complexity can make it extremely difficult for undergraduate students to visualize and understand these processes. Immunology is a discipline known for its complex signaling pathways and cellular interactions. One way to improve students' learning of multi-step immunological...
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SC
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

Visualizing Cell Signaling: Engineering Bioluminescent Bacteria for the Classroom
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
Background Bacteria coordinate behavior with hormone-like chemicals called autoinducers. As a population grows, autoinducer concentration rises in step; past a threshold the cells sense the crowd and change behavior via quorum sensing. It underlies biofilms, bioreactor performance, and anti-virulence drug targets. Why Vibrio campbellii? Aliivibrio fischeri is a widely used model organism, which...
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PR
GC
IM
KM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

We all belong in biology!
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall
In introductory or first-year courses, many students struggle with their sense of belonging. Sense of belonging, along with psychological safety and trust, is directly related to a student's engagement and persistence in their coursework. This microbrew is designed to introduce the Encouragement-as Instruction Toolkit which was designed bring encouragement into everyday interactions in the biology...
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AH
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm PST
ASMCUE Exhibit & Poster Hall 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Microbrew

2:30pm PST

LuxArt visualization & photography
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Advanced sign-up is required. Use this form to secure your spot in the LuxArt activity at 2026 ASMCUE in Seattle. LuxArt is a fabulous outreach or in-lab activity for students!Participation is limited to the first 75 individuals who are also registered for the full ASMCUE conference. Your host is Mark Martin and Jenny Quinn, University of Puget Sound, who have graciously volunteered to...
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MM
Friday November 20, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

2:45pm PST

McGraw Hill: Product & Author Corner
Friday November 20, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
TBA
Speakers
T
Friday November 20, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

4:00pm PST

Break from ASMCUE and opportunity to sample Seattle
Friday November 20, 2026 4:00pm - 7:00pm PST
off-site
There are lots of restaurants on-site and off-site to enjoy! Several local attractions, such as Pike Place Market, are in walking distance from our venue!
Friday November 20, 2026 4:00pm - 7:00pm PST
off-site 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

7:15pm PST

ASMCUE/ABRCMS Joint Faculty Reception, TBA
Friday November 20, 2026 7:15pm - 9:00pm PST
tba
More to be announced at a later date. Event is TBA.
Friday November 20, 2026 7:15pm - 9:00pm PST
tba 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees
 
Saturday, November 21
 

7:30am PST

ASMCUE Registration & Information desk is open
Saturday November 21, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk

Saturday November 21, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm PST
ASMCUE registration desk 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

8:30am PST

Do your students have difficulty solving novel problems? Teaching them how to reason mechanistically can be the answer!
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 336
As biology instructors, one of our goals is to help students learn to explain and predict how and why phenomena occur i.e. use mechanistic reasoning. The goal of this workshop is for participants to (1) develop a robust understanding of mechanistic reasoning as a tool for making sense of novel biological phenomena, (2) learn guiding principles for developing effective in-class activities that...
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KN
AC
MP
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

8:30am PST

Integrating quantitative image analysis into undergraduate courses
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 337
Curious about integrating quantitative image analysis in your undergraduate courses? In this interactive session, we will explore the mindset of an image analyst, learn about user-friendly, free image analysis software that require little to no coding experience, and discuss resources appropriate for classroom use. Panelists will present case studies and share tips for incorporating open-source...
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LD
KC
EW
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

8:30am PST

Integrating STEM Professional Development Workshops into the Curriculum to Promote STEM Identity Development, Retention, and Success in Early Post-Secondary Students
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 335
The Microbiology Achievement through Research and Valuable Experiential Learning (MARVEL) program was developed as an early post-secondary curriculum intervention to promote academic success, persistence and retention in STEM by focusing professional development activities. MARVEL workshops focusing on STEM communication, networking, teamwork, and relational skills are incorporated directly into...
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BS
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

8:30am PST

Writing Teachng Case Studies - Case Study Writing Sprint
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Rooms 338 & 339
This mini-workshop is designed for biology and microbiology faculty who are interested in creating engaging, student-centered teaching case studies. Whether you're new to case-based instruction or looking to enhance your current approach, this mini-workshop will provide practical tools and guidance to help you design a case study that fits your course goals and teaching style. You will leave with...
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RS
NB
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

8:30am PST

Using GenAI to Restore Time-Intensive Teaching Practices and Assess Process Over Product Regardless of Class Size
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Oftentimes, large enrollments constrain certain high-impact practices that develop or assess critical thinking, because of their time-intensive nature. These include in-class discussion, individualized feedback on student writing, oral and essay exams, or large projects or presentations. Now that AI is requiring faculty to shift from assessing final products to assessing the student reasoning that...
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Speakers
KM
JJ
MB
Saturday November 21, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

10:05am PST

Bringing Genomics Into the Classroom: A Hands-On Workshop Using Web-Based Tools for Genome Assembly and Annotation
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 337
This hands-on workshop will introduce educators to teaching genome assembly and annotation using the free, web-based platform Galaxy. Participants will assemble a bacterial genome using SPAdes, evaluate assembly quality with QUAST, annotate genomes with Prokka, and explore how these tools can be integrated into short modules or course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). The session...
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TV
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

10:05am PST

Incorporating effective science communication principles in undergraduate STEM courses
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Despite its relevance for the advancement of science, the incorporation of effective science communication (SciComm) strategies into undergraduate courses remains limited. Expectations for SciComm in laboratory and Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are also not well defined. This workshop will introduce attendees to evidence supporting the integration of formal SciComm...
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Speakers
CM
DW
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

10:05am PST

AI as a Mindtool: Shifting Student Use from Generating Content to Fostering Critical Thinking
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education, yet guidance on using it to foster critical thinking in STEM education is limited. This interactive roundtable session explores how AI can support active knowledge construction rather than passive information retrieval. Examples of AI-infused learning activities will be shared, including what-if modeling, concept mapping, and error analysis,...
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JW
MM
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

10:05am PST

Cognitive Isn’t Enough: Strategizing the Support of Affective Learning in Science to Achieve Full “Bloom” Learning
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 336
Since 1954, Bloom’s Taxonomy has become a popular framework to structure learning, but the focus has been on the cognitive domain (remember, understand, etc.). In this roundtable, we will consider the affective domain, one of the other domains in Bloom’s Taxonomy. The affective domain focuses on emotional components of learning, such as willingness to receive and respond to information, assign...
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BS
AD
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

10:05am PST

Fostering student belonging, professional identity, and career readiness with revitalized co-curricular programming.
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 335
Co-curricular activities help students to build and sustain their sense of belonging, professional identity, and career readiness. In response to declines in participation in co-curricular science clubs resulting from repeated shifts in student leadership, faculty at our institution developed a sustainable, faculty-led STEM Society to provide equitable and regular programming that students can...
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MA
SC
Saturday November 21, 2026 10:05am - 11:05am PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

11:10am PST

Opportunities, outcomes, and best practices for teaching with authentic data & open science
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PST
Room 337
Attendees will learn principles of designing inquiry-based teaching activities with large authentic datasets, especially open datasets. Working with open resources helps students understand and participate in the full process of discovery, including experimental design, data analysis, data visualization, and reporting. This facilitates experiences on a massive scale that are not otherwise possible...
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KC
MM
GD
CG
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

11:10am PST

Your Body’s SuperHero Immune Cell Team – Visual learning teaching activity using Plush toy microbes and cells – How Vaccines and Your Immune System Cells Keep You Healthy and Attack Germs!
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PST
Rooms 338 & 339
SuperHero Immune Cell Team is an engaging in-class visual learning activity. Students are provided with five different crocheted or plush toy immune cells, animation videos, and immune cell questions to recreate immune cell function necessary to clear infections in your body. The students will visualize and develop questions about each immune cell’s role in The 3 Rs of Immunology (Recognition,...
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AW
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

11:10am PST

Co-Designing Course AI Policies with Our Students to Ensure Flexibility, Transparency, and Precision
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
AI touches so many facets of education that AI policies have a lot to balance: far more than any other policy in our syllabi. From brainstorming and correcting grammar, to using AI as electronic lab notebooks and formatting data tables, it’s still an open question of what uses of AI are appropriate in Microbiology teaching, research, and learning. Come learn a simple approach for co-designing...
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Speakers
MK
SM
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

11:10am PST

The Right Answer Is Not Enough: Teaching Students to Build and Defend Biological Explanations
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Room 336
A correct answer does not necessarily demonstrate strong biological reasoning. Students may identify the right organism, pathway, or outcome yet struggle to explain the mechanism or justify why one interpretation fits the evidence better than another. In this interactive mini-workshop, participants will explore a transferable framework that pairs low-cost manipulatives with structured...
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NK
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

11:10am PST

Health Disparities as a Framework for Connecting Basic Science, Community Engagement, and Student Success
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Room 335
STEM careers in healthcare and biomedical sciences continue to be stable and growing professions. However, learners often struggle to connect foundational science disciplines to real-world applications. The Rural Appalachian Health Disparities minor at WVU provides a curricular framework that integrates basic science, community engagement, and public health policy to address health challenges in...
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KC
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:10am - 12:15pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

11:45am PST

Symbiotic Scholars: Merging GenAI and Wikipedia for Knowledge Navigation Skills
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PST
Room 337
There have been disruptors to traditional educational practices with Wikipedia being a long-avoided source of information due to the lack of evidence-based information. Now, generative AI brings another wave of uncertainty in the authenticity of information. Students continue to need tools to navigate web-based platforms. A course project was created with the guidance of Wiki Education and use of...
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JW
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

11:45am PST

The Microbe-Neuron Connection: Integrating Microbiology and A&P for Deeper Learning
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Pre‑health students often separate Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) and Microbiology rather than viewing them as interconnected. This workshop will focus on a project that bridges that gap through a Bloom’s‑aligned, co‑developed case study. Students analyze a 22‑year‑old patient with trismus, rigidity, and hyperreflexia, diagnosing tetanus and tracing how tetanospasmin blocks inhibitory...
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SF
Saturday November 21, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

12:15pm PST

Lunch (on your own)
Saturday November 21, 2026 12:15pm - 1:30pm PST
off-site
There are lots of restaurants on-site and off-site to enjoy!
Saturday November 21, 2026 12:15pm - 1:30pm PST
off-site 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

1:30pm PST

AI is here – how do educators plan to integrate AI tools for research into coursework (while still teaching core science skills)?
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Science is rapidly moving into an AI-driven space with new tools and applications becoming increasingly available. As the US Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) updates to a modernized, AI-integrated platform, how can KBase continue to support key workforce development skills in science? The KBase Educators community needs your input! We are a very active network...
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Speakers
CG
ED
ZC
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

1:30pm PST

Credentialing, Curriculum, and Career Readiness: A Roundtable Discussion
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Room 335
As undergraduate programs increasingly seek to incorporate industry-recognized credentials (IRCs), faculty and educators face an important question: how well do bioscience industry standards align with academic preparation and existing coursework? IRCs provide a tangible connection between the classroom and the workplace by validating competencies valued by employers, but what does meaningful...
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TM
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

1:30pm PST

The Microbiology Educator Exchange: Building New ASM Teaching and Learning Communities Through Peer Support and Networking
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Room 336
The Educator Exchange is a new ASM program that brings colleagues together in small, facilitated groups to develop or adapt ideas, resources, or implementation strategies to improve student learning. During each semester-long session, small groups meet biweekly and workshop ideas that add to a teaching toolbox. All participants in an Educator Exchange session address one broad educational topic,...
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HT
MA
CL
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

1:30pm PST

Beyond the Biology: Why We Should Consider An Expanded Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Undergraduates about Vaccines and an Example of How that Might Look
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:35pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Typical vaccine education focuses on the biology and science of vaccines, while the conversations our students will face after college are often shaped by emotion, lived-experience, and trust. In this mini-workshop, participants will first become the students as they experience first-hand a discussion that involves historical, cultural, and social aspects of vaccine hesitancy. Participants will...
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KM
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:35pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

1:30pm PST

Publish your Education Study: Turning Classroom Research into Scholarly Impact
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 337
Education research studies and the translation of their results into evidence-based teaching have resulted in increased learning outcomes for learners in diverse contexts. However, the dissemination of education research through publication in peer-reviewed journals can be daunting to newcomers to the field. This workshop is for practitioners and trainees interested in learning how to write up and...
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MS
Saturday November 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:05pm PST

An online community of practice provides effective professional development in inclusive evidence-based teaching practices
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 335
Long-term professional development (PD) programs can improve student learning, but they are not easy to build or run. This session highlights practical PD frameworks that create lasting change by detailing the Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Project, an NSF-funded network that promotes evidence-based teaching. BioGraphI is an online community of practice (CoP) that has trained over...
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Speakers
SM
ML
RP
CG
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:05pm PST

Bridging Student Skill Gaps with AI for Public Health Communication
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Attendees will be introduced to a Project Lab model with collaborative research, science communication, and generative AI to support student learning. AI can bridge student skill gaps in project-based experiences while maintaining authentic learning and student ownership. Students used museum-curated resources to investigate the history and science of influenza while developing resources for...
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JJ
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:05pm PST

Advancing Excellence in Microbiology Education: ASM’s Course Endorsement Program
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 336
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is developing a process to recognize exemplary general microbiology courses in various institutions. This initiative highlights courses that align with the 2024 ASM Curriculum Guidelines and demonstrate student centered active learning, varied engagement strategies, and multiple forms of assessment. We have draft rubrics and an initial review workflow...
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NB
CG
CL
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:05pm - 2:35pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

2:40pm PST

Beyond Memorization: Integrating Critical Thinking and Inquiry with HHMI BioInteractive Resources
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
How can we develop students' critical thinking skills in analyzing information, evaluating evidence, and constructing well-reasoned arguments? Highlighting the use of real-world phenomena and authentic data, this session features free HHMI BioInteractive resources that engage students in scientific inquiry and deepen their understanding of core concepts. Grounding student learning in authentic...
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JW
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:40pm PST

Updating the 2018 Microbiology in Nursing and Allied Health (MINAH) Undergraduate Curriculum Guidelines
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm PST
Room 336
The 2024 release of the updated ASM Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology Education provides a timely opportunity to re-examine and update the 2018 Microbiology in Nursing and Allied Health (MINAH) Undergraduate Curriculum Guidelines. Historically mapped to the 2012 ASM framework and cross referenced with the 2016 National Council Licensure Examination for Registered...
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LN
BP
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm PST
Room 336 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

2:40pm PST

Authors Wanted: Learn How To Publish Your Work in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (JMBE)
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 337
The Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (JMBE) welcomes scholarship across science education, yet many educators are uncertain about which article types fit their work, what peer review involves, and publication best-practices. This interactive 90-minute workshop, led by JMBE editors, demystifies the entire publishing journey and provides insights for newcomers and frequent JMBE authors...
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Speakers
CG
SM
SF
ML
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:40pm PST

From Memorize to Mesmerize: Authentic Assessment That's Engaging, Meaningful, and (mostly) AI-Resistant
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Traditional exams focus on lower-level Bloom's taxonomy (recall and understand), while authentic assessments tie learning to real-world contexts, invite student choice, and reveal how students think. These assessments are also more engaging, meaningful, and (mostly) resistant to answer-sharing and generative AI. This mini-workshop introduces portfolio-based authentic assessment as a practical...
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AR
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

2:40pm PST

Think Like an Educator, Lead Like a Microbiologist
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 335
Today's microbiology educators are increasingly called upon to lead change across classrooms, departments, and institutions. Yet few professional development experiences prepare faculty for the complexity of this work. Drawing on Project Kaleidoscope’s STEM leadership development, this interactive session will introduce an evidence-informed professional development model grounded in systems...
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KM
Saturday November 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 335 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

3:15pm PST

Expanding Undergraduate Research: Developing a SEA-PHAGES Genomics Course at Hudson Valley Community College
Saturday November 21, 2026 3:15pm - 3:50pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339
Undergraduate research experiences significantly impact student success and readiness in STEM. However, community colleges have limited opportunities for authentic research. We discuss the implementation of CURE at Hudson Valley Community College. This course allows students to participate in real scientific discovery through the SEA Phages Genomics program. Students who successfully participate...
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Speakers
JD
SK
Saturday November 21, 2026 3:15pm - 3:50pm PST
Rooms 338 & 339 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Mini-workshop

3:15pm PST

Beyond BlackInMicro Week: Building Classroom Activities that Emphasize Science Identity and Stories from Everyday Scientists
Saturday November 21, 2026 3:15pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 337
BlackInMicro (BiM) Week is a free conference open to everyone. Occurring every 2 years, it attracts online attendees from 76+ countries to celebrate personal journeys in STEMM. BiM emphasizes career development and connecting everyday scientists to the public. Recordings and published articles are available year-round, with potential to use for undergraduate learning. Session participants will...
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Speakers
AB
NP
KT
Saturday November 21, 2026 3:15pm - 3:50pm PST
Room 337 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  Roundtable Discussions & Affinity Groups

4:00pm PST

Plenary with Ann Stevens, raffle, and Closing Comments
Saturday November 21, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334
Schedule:4:00 - 4:40 pm Plenary talk by Ann Stevens4:40 - 4:55 pm Raffle prizes!4:55 - 5:15 pm Closing Comments by the Planning Committee, led by Kelly CollinsPlenary talk by Ann StevensTitle: Caring about Teaching in the Classroom and Research LabDescription: Ann Stevens is the 2026 ASM Carski Awardee. There are some common themes that exist between teaching students in a course and in...
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KC
AS
Saturday November 21, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm PST
Rooms 333 & 334 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees

5:15pm PST

Affinity dinners (on your own). Advanced sign-up required.
Saturday November 21, 2026 5:15pm - 7:00pm PST
off-site
Advanced sign-up is required. Sign-up sheet will be available around Nov. 1. If you want to host an affinity dinner, email [email protected] with your proposed topic.
Saturday November 21, 2026 5:15pm - 7:00pm PST
off-site 900 Pine St Seattle, Washington 98101 USA
  all attendees
 

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