the biology bulletin - fall 2008
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Division of Biology Kansas State University Student wins scholarship for second year - Sara Powell is awarded the University Distinguished Professor Scholarship again in 2008 Page 3 2008 Alumni Fellow - Dr. Gerald W. Hart, class of 1977 and Director of the Department of Biological Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Page 3 October 2008 Volume 1, Issue 2 Lorena Passarelli and John Blair appointed associate directors for the Division of Biology.TRANSCRIPT
October 2008 Volume 1, Issue 2
The
B u l l e t i nD i v i s i o n o f B i o l o g y K a n s a s S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y
I n s i d e :
Student wins scholarship for second year - Sara Powell is awarded the University Distinguished
Professor Scholarship again in 2008 Page 3
New Konza Director Appointed - Dr. John Briggs has been hired as the first nationally recruited director for Konza Prairie
Biological Research Station. Page 2
2008 Alumni Fellow - Dr. Gerald W. Hart, class of 1977 and Director of the Department of Biological Chemistry
at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Page 3
John Blair, university distinguished professor of ecology, and Lorena Passarelli, associate professor of molecular biology, have been appointed associate directors of the Division of Biology. “The addition of Dr. Blair and Dr. Passarelli as associate directors adds outstanding teaching and research achievements, as well as discipline breadth, gender perspective and multicultural diversity to our administrative team,” said Brian Spooner, university distinguished professor and director of the Division of Biology. As associate directors, Blair will focus on faculty development, while Passarelli’s focus will be on student development. “I think having associate directors that cover the breadth of disciplines in biology is really important and I am very excited about being able to represent the ecology and evolutionary biology section of the Division of Biology,” Blair said. “I look forward to helping faculty members as they establish and develop their careers, and being able to contribute to the continued growth of strong research and teaching programs in the division.” “I have been contributing to student development by encouraging the involvement of students in research, so this position expands what I have been doing and allows me to develop new ideas for undergraduate and graduate students to have a richer and broader education,”
Division Appoints Two New Associate DirectorsPassarelli said. Blair joined K-State in 1992. He was named a university distinguished professor in 2006, K-State’s highest faculty ranking. He also serves as the Edwin G. Brychta Professor of Biology. He has been recognized for his teaching with the William L. Stamey Outstanding U n d e r g r a d u a t e Teaching Award from K-State’s College of Arts and Sciences. Blair’s research interests are on the influence of physical and biological drivers on ecological processes and how ecosystems respond to changes in those drivers as a result of human activities. Since 2002, Blair has brought in almost $7 million to K-State as the principal investigator (PI) for multiple projects, as well as an additional $7 million in collaborative funding as a co-PI during the same time frame. He is the PI and project director of the National Science Foundation-funded Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological
Research (LTER) Program. He is also the PI on collaborative research grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Institute for Climate Change Research, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation. Blair has
been leading the regional planning for the National Ecological Observatory Network, a National Science Foundation-sponsored research plan being proposed to the U.S. Congress that includes K-State’s Konza Prairie Biological Station as a candidate core site for implementing a major new national research and educational program. Blair received his doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1987. Passarelli joined K-State in 2001 and has been
recognized with many top teaching and research awards, including being the first recipient of K-State’s Presidential Distinguished Faculty Award for the Mentoring of Undergraduate Students in Research in 2007. She has also received The Commerce Bank Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished (continued on page 2)
Lorena Passarelli and John Blair appointed associate directors for the Division of Biology.
A Word From Dr. Brian S. SpoonerUniversity Distinguished Professor and Division Director
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(continued from page 1) Services to Historically Underrepresented Students, the H. H. Haymaker Teaching Excellence Award, the William L. Stamey Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Biology Graduate Student Association’s Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award and a Faculty Scholar Award from the Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence. Passarelli currently serves as chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Diversity and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Virology. She is the PI of active National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture individual research grants on viral gene regulation and pathogenesis. Her research interests are in molecular virology; specifically, she studies gene regulatory circuits in insect viruses and how insect viruses and insect-vectored viruses establish systemic infections. Her studies may aid in the development of strategies that will curtail vector-borne virus dissemination and control insect pest populations. Passarelli has been both PI and co-PI for many programs bringing in more than $3 million in research grants to K-State since 2002.Passarelli received her Ph.D. from The University of Georgia in 1993. “Professors John Blair and Lorena Passarelli have impressive research, teaching and service achievements, and will contribute to an expansion of the Division of Biology focus on faculty and student development programs. It is with pleasure that Dave Rintoul, senior associate director, and I welcome them to the Division’s administrative team,” Spooner said.
The allure of the tallgrass prairie is nothing new to Kansas native, John Briggs, new director of Konza Prairie Biological Station and professor of biology at Kansas State University. In fact, he finds it addicting. “It just gets into you,” he said. Briggs was hired as the first nationally recruited director of Konza Prairie Biological Station starting in June. He first began his career at K-State as the data manager for the Long Term Ecological Research program on Konza in 1984, later gaining promotion to research professor in the Division of Biology. He also served as Program Officer for Ecology at the National Science Foundation. Even though he accepted a professorship at Arizona State University in 1999, he was periodically drawn back to Konza through his research in ecology. “I felt like I had the best of both worlds. I could continue to do research at this wonderful place, Konza, while also living and doing research in Arizona. But when I saw the job description and talked to some folks about it, I knew I had to apply for it,” Briggs said. Konza Prairie was first developed as an ecological research site in 1971, under the leadership of Lloyd Hulbert, an ecology professor at K-State. Jointly owned by the Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University and managed by the Division of Biology, Konza Prairie currently spans about 8,600 acres, 93% unplowed. The station is host to 130 registered research projects by 150
scientists from all over the world and is one of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research sites. “Probably one of the beauties of Konza is it’s not just a preserve, it’s a research area. If we wanted to just preserve it, it’d be the easiest thing. We’d just burn it one way, graze it very lightly and it would be this wonderful piece of prairie. The challenge, but also the excitement for me is to balance our research
goals with preservation. I want to preserve native tallgrass prairie habitat, but I also want to conduct experiments and sometimes those things create conflict, so we have to balance the need of different activities,” Briggs said. In addition to balancing research and conservation, Briggs is interested in
maintaining a strong educational component at Konza. The possibility of building an education center to house students on field trips may be in the future, if funding permits. A program proposed to the United States Congress called the National Ecological Observatory Network includes Konza Prairie as a candidate core site for implementing a major new national research and educational program. The educational program will translate scientific data into information that is easier for teachers and the public to understand. “Tallgrass prairie is one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America. People come from other places and they are just amazed by it. We have the responsibly to maintain that,” Briggs said.
Ecologist Returns to Kansas as New Director for Konza Prairie
New Associate Directors Continued
Retirement Limerick by Larry Williams
A REAL PLUS WITH AGING, I MENTION IS DRAWING A LUCRATIVE PENSION.BUT A LIFE OF DURESSAND CONTINUAL STRESSCONTRIBUTES TO MY HYPERTENSION!
Brian Spooner congratulates Larry Williams on his retirement
John Briggs hired as new director of Konza Prairie
This past year, we celebrated the outstanding career of an outstanding retiring faculty member, Larry Williams. As he pursues his new endeavors, we are reminded of the important role he took in the lives of many students and of our commitment to continue providing excellence to undergraduate students. In the words of Larry Williams, “College age students are such a great age group to work with. They’ve reached a level of maturity and it’s probably the last time in their lives where they can really turn things around, learn how to study and make a change
if they need to. Watching them transform is an amazing development.” We are privileged to work with many
bright minded individuals enrolled in the Division of Biology. In the past 18 years, 45 Division of Biology students have received nationally competitive scholarships. One of the Division’s goals is to increase the number of scholarships available to these bright students. Several funds have been set up with the KSU Foundation to provide our exceptional students with deserving scholarships. Among those funds is the Larry G Williams Undergraduate Scholarship Fund, designed to provide scholarships in honor of Larry Williams’ contribution to teaching and advising. For more information on this fund or how to contribute to student scholarships contact Damon Fairchild, Development Officer at 785-532-1578 or toll free at 800-432-1578, [email protected] or visit www.ksu.edu/biology/makeagift.html
A scholarship fund has been set up to honor Dr. Larry Williams for his many years of commitment to students. For more information or to contribute visit: www.k-state.edu/biology/makeagift.html
For the second year in a row, Sara Powell, senior in biology, Overland Park, has been awarded the Division of Biology University Distinguished Professors Scholarship for her outstanding achievements as a student. The scholarship includes $500 for the fall semester and $500 for the spring semester. “Sara is an outstanding student who combines a superb academic record with a demonstrable commitment to a future career in medicine,” said Brian Spooner, university distinguished professor and director of the Division of Biology. Powell credits her mother’s influence as a cardiac nurse for her interest in the medical field. She will apply to the University of Kansas School of Medicine in the fall. Powell’s commitment to a medical career includes obtaining certification as a nurse’s assistant, all to gain more experience in the medical field outside of school. She also expects the completion of her secondary major in gerontology to help her relate to elderly patients. Clay Harvey, a radiologist from Topeka and a 1974 K-State graduate in biology, is responsible for establishing the Division of Biology University Distinguished Professors Scholarship. “Dr. Harvey’s generosity in continuing support of this endowment honors the Division of Biology’s university distinguished professors, while benefiting deserving undergraduate
Powell Awarded Scholarship for Second Year
students through scholarship funds,” Spooner said. The title of university distinguished professor is the highest faculty honor at K-State. Powell said prior to receiving the scholarship for the first time, she heard Harvey speak at a meeting of the K-State chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a pre-medical honor society. He discussed his career and offered tips for medical school. “After listening to Dr. Harvey’s words of encouragement, I could tell how genuine and compassionate he was,” Powell said. “He’s the kind of person and physician who has further motivated me to enter the medical field, and I have no doubt he has had a similar impact on other students. I cannot thank him enough for the various ways he has facilitated my own aspirations.”
What started with a simple childhood chemistry set has grown into a lifetime of achievement in the biological sciences. In February, the Division of Biology rolled out the welcome mat for K-State alumnus Gerald “Jerry” W. Hart, who was presented with K-State Alumni Fellow Award by the K-State Alumni Association. “Fellows were chosen based on their high levels of professional accomplishment and distinguished service in their respective careers,” said Jodi Weiberg, vice president of alumni programs for the K-State Alumni Association. Hart’s accomplishments have granted him the prestigious title of Director and DeLamar Professor of the Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The Topeka native is only the fifth person in the history of Johns Hopkins, to hold that position. “Jerry Hart is a terrific example of the kind of career success that can result from graduate studies in the Kansas State University Division of Biology,” said Gary Conrad, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Biology at Kansas State. Conrad was Hart’s PhD mentor in the mid 1970’s. As many successful people do, Hart received a great deal of support throughout the years. Starting with his parents, Hart laughs about the type of encouragement his mother gave him as a child. “She convinced my father to install a gas line for a Bunsen burner into my bedroom for my chemistry set. I would have never done that for my kids,” Hart said with a chuckle. In addition to his parents, Hart named a few other individuals that encouraged his scientific interests, one of them being Conrad. “I have the highest respect for Gary Conrad. He is enthusiastic and supportive, A pure scientist,” Hart said. Hart started working as a research technician in Conrad’s lab in 1972. “Jerry was enthusiastically interested in everything we were doing in the lab,” Conrad said. “We developed a synergistic relationship and fed off one another’s excitement,” he added. Admiring Hart’s work ethic and problem solving skills, Conrad encouraged Hart to apply to graduate school. In 1972 Hart was accepted to Kansas State University Graduate School. After graduation Hart took a postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University, where he was later invited to stay on as an assistant professor. The lessons learned while at KSU have remained with Hart to this day. “Life is too short not to focus on important problems,” Hart said. Conrad taught Hart to be problem oriented not technique oriented, basically saying that there is more than one way to
look at a problem and if you use the same technique you may miss something. By following this advice and using a less common technique, Hart made a unique observation. He observed a type of carbohydrate, called O-GlcNAc, is attached to proteins inside cells. Prior to this, it was believed that these kinds of carbohydrates only existed in abundance attached to proteins outside cells. His observation led to further research of key roles that O-GlcNAC’s location and quantity may play a role in the development of a few
major diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes. While in Manhattan for the award, Hart took the chance to pass on some advice that he received throughout the years, to the next generation of successful K-State students by giving a guest lecture to Conrad’s Developmental Biology class. Hart presented graduate and medical school-bound students with tips and tricks for applying to medical and graduate school.
K-State Experience and Encouragement Lends Success
Gerald “Jerry” Hart, Class of 77, awarded KSU Alumni Fellow
Dr.. Gerald Hart, Class of 77, 2008 Alumni Fellow
FACT:For a KS resident, tuition & fees at KSU are $6,200 per academic year plus the cost of books and housing. (based on 14 credit hour semesters)
However, K-State is one of the lowest cost universities in the Big 12.
FACT:The average ACT composite score of KSU Biology students is 26, placing them in the 86th percentile nationally. 27% scored a 28 or higher placing them in the 95th percentile nationally. The average KSU student scored 22.8 placing them in the 68th percentile nationally.
FACT:The Division of Biology awards $110,000 in scholarships, awards, and research grants every year. However spread out over 650 students that averages only $170 per student. Hardly enough to dent the cost of tuition and fees. To attract & retain quality students we need more scholarships. www.ksu.edu/biology/makeagift.html
Sara Powell receives the Division of Biology University Distinguished Professor Scholarship
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Faculty Awards
Student Awards
Robbie Bear, instructor in biology, won the William L. Stamey Award for Excellence in teaching. Bear teaches Principles of Biology. “Why do I teach? For the moments when students discover that they can succeed,” he said, “or that a few new study skills can improve their performance, or that a shift in perspective produces understanding: These are the moments that motivate me as a teacher.”
Robbie Bear
Michael Herman Michael Herman, associate professor in biology, has been awarded the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship to collaborate with scientists in The Netherlands at Wageningen University during the Fall 2008 semester. “I am going to go there to exchange information but also learn something. The idea is to get new research initiated, learn new techniques in Wageningen and then bring aspects of that project back to continue on here,” Herman said.
Brychta Professorships
John M. Blair, university distinguished professor of biology, assumes the additional title of the Edwin G. Brychta Professor of Biology, and Gary W. Conrad, university distinguished professor of biology, assumes the additional title of the Lillian J. Brychta Professor of Biology. Each received a salary supplement and discretionary funds in recognition of their achievements and in support of their continuing research scholarship. The professorships are funded by the Brychta Endowment, which was established from proceeds of the Edwin Brychta Trust to the KSU Foundation and the State of Kansas Faculty of Distinction Program. The endowed professorships are designed to recognize, support and retain Division of Biology faculty members who exemplify research scholarship at the highest level of achievement, and to perpetuate the names of Edwin G. Brychta and Lillian J. Brychta, a brother and sister from Marshall County who were K-State alums and longtime public school teachers. “Professors Blair and Conrad are true superstars in their respective fields. Each is incredibly well qualified to serve K-State as the first recipients of the Brychta Professorship,” said Steve White, dean of K-State’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Rollie Clem
Ruth Welti, professor of biology, has received the 2008 Outstanding Senior Scientist Award from the K-State chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, for her outstanding performance in scientific research.
Gary Conrad, university distinguished professor of biology, has been awarded the first KSU Alumni Association Iman Award for outstanding research, and KSU’s Undergraduate Mentoring in Research Award, in addition to the Brychta Professorship.
Rollie Clem, associate professor of molecular biology was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award by the Division of Biology Graduate Student Association.
Undergraduate Awards
H. H. Haymaker Outstanding SeniorJenna Kennedy, microbiology, natural resources and environmental sciences and pre-medicine.
Most Promising Student AwardAleece Preston, senior in biology and pre-vet from Olathe.
Diana Hylton, senior in nutritional science from Tecumseh
Hailey Petersen, junior in microbiology from Overland Park.
Maureen Ty, junior in microbiology from Stockton, CA
Nathan Harms, senior in biology from Derby
Ryan Gallagher, junior in microbiology from Olathe.
Thomas Prebyl, senior in biology from Oketo.
H. H. Haymaker Award for Outstanding Presentation - Joseph Coolon
- Haymaker was a KSU faculty member in the Department of Botany for 40 years. The award was established in 1975 by family. It is given annually for an outstanding graduate student presentation by a student who has been in the Division of Biology graduate program 2 or more years or has a M.S. degree.
James Ackert Award for Outstanding Presentation - Ashley Casey - J.E. Ackert was a long-time Dean of the Graduate School. He was a Parasitologist in the Department of Zoology. The award is given annually for an outstanding graduate student presentation by a student who has been in the Division of Biology graduate program less than two years.
John Frazier Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research in Plant Science - Jacqueline Ott - J.C. Frazier was a plant physiologist in the Department of Plant Pathology and Botany before the formation of the Division of Biology. The endowment was established in 1976. The award is given at the discretion of the Director of the Division of Biology based on superior graduate student research in plant science, including a presentation given at the Annual Division of Biology Graduate Research Forum.
L. Evans Roth Award for Graduate Student Research in Cellular, Molecular and Develop-mental Biology - Joseph D. Coolon
- L.E. Roth was the first Director of the Division of Biology. This new award is given at the discretion of the Director of the Division of Biology based on superior graduate student research in cell, molecular or developmental biology, including a presentation given at the Annual Division of Biology Graduate Research Forum.
Chris Edler Award for Outstanding Research on Konza - Page Klug - Established in 1993 for C. Edler who died while he was a graduate student in the Division. Awarded annually to a graduate student who has an outstanding record as a graduate student teacher and has performed superior research and service on Konza Prairie. The student must give a presentation at the Biology Graduate Research Forum in the year the award is given.
Michael Scott Watkins Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching - Lance Thurlow - Established in 1974 for M.S. Watkins, a deceased graduate student. Awarded annually to a graduate student who excels in her/his teaching responsibilities.
Graduate Awards
Gary Conrad
Ruth Welti
Walter Dodds presents Page Klug with the Edler Award
Rollie Clem accepts Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award from Lance Thurlow
Associate Dean Beth Montelone presents Jenna Kennedy with Haymaker Award
Biological and medical advances have profound effects on our lives. Just a century ago Kansans had to face the prospects of shorter life spans, high rates of deaths due to infectious diseases, and shortages of food. Today many of those problems have been alleviated, thanks to basic biological, biomedical and agricultural research carried out at universities like K-State. There is a common thread linking these disparate research areas, and that thread is the theory of evolution. Evolutionary thinking influences all aspects of research in the life sciences, and predictions based on evolutionary theory are made (and vindicated) every day in thousands of laboratories around the world. As the famous geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Unfortunately much of the American public has a limited or confused understanding of evolution, and its place in modern biological research. The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, the premier scientific and medical organizations in the USA, have attempted to remedy that with the publication of a booklet entitled “Science, Evolution and Creationism”. Noted biologists and physicians, headed by geneticist and philosopher Francisco Ayala, have written this brief but thorough booklet in the hope of fostering a better understanding of evolution and its role in biological, biomedical and agricultural research. You can download a PDF version of the booklet for free at the NAS website (http://www.pnas.org/content/105/1/3.extract). If this topic interests you, or if you want to learn more about evolution and its place in modern science, you should get a copy, read it, and pass it around to friends and family. Contributed by Dave Rintoul, Associate Director
Evolutionary Thinking
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Move over chalkboards and overheads, a different format for teaching is successful in the classroom. According to data released in the 2008 summer issue of Cell Biology Education -- A Journal of Life Science Education, the studio format is an effective method for teaching students in principles of biology, an introductory course in the Division of Biology. The studio format uses computer simulations, teamwork with peers, scientific equipment, hands-on lab experiments, studio manuals and mini lectures by faculty at the beginning and end of the class period to teach students. The assessment, written by Division of Biology professors Beth Montelone, principles of biology restructuring committee chair; David Rintoul, senior coordinator of the studio format; and Larry W i l l i a m s , coordinator of the course’s previous audio-tutorial (AT) format, evaluates data collected since the course’s conversion to a studio format in 1997 and compares the studio to other teaching format options. “A committee was appointed to investigate all possibilities and all concepts to teach introductory biology,” said Montelone, who is also associate
dean of K-State’s College of Arts and Sciences. “The investigation took a year and the physical and course content revisions took another year, but principles of biology became the first studio approach to introductory biology nationally.” The previous format, audio-tutorial, was an isolated and self-driven approach. Students listened to audiotapes during class and followed along in the book and lab manual, while performing lab experiments by themselves, thus limiting student and instructor interaction. The studio format encourages student attendance, interaction and teamwork while providing a variety of resources that cater to all four different learning styles:
audio, reading/writing, visual and kinesthetic. “Whatever the student’s preferred learning style, they can find it -- and even if they aren’t aware that they have a preferred learning style, we give them so many choices
that it makes it a lot more feasible for them to learn effectively,” she said. In a post-test evaluation, students from the studio format rated their skills in “doing experiments” and “working with others” higher than students from the audio-tutorial format, while audio-tutorial students rated skills higher for “writing lab reports.” The data concluded that there are fewer students failing the course and fewer students formally withdrawing from the course under the studio format compared to the audio-tutorial format. Montelone said that the principles of biology studio format also offers some important advantages. Unlike a traditional lecture/lab format where one faculty member runs a 500-seat lecture and graduate teaching assistants attend to the labs, students in principles of biology are taught in a smaller studio format twice a week by teams of two faculty members and two graduate teaching assistants for each of the eight to 10 sections of the course offered a semester. “Faculty time is a lot more expensive than graduate teaching assistant time, so the fact that we are using many faculty members to teach this intro course shows you how important we think it is,” Montelone said.
Each year, as many as 3 million people around the world die from malaria -- most of them children under the age of 5. That’s why biology researcher Kristin Michel says it’s so important to remain vigilant in searching for ways to defeat the disease. “The disease is literally taking away the future in some parts of the world,” she said. In her quest against malaria, Michel has been studying ways to modify the way mosquitoes handle the parasite that causes the disease before transmitting it to humans. Michel, who joined K-State in fall 2007, is an assistant professor. Malaria is a vector-borne disease, meaning it is caused by a parasite transmitted from human to human by
a carrier -- in this case the Anopheles mosquito. With most vector-borne diseases, the vector is able to carry the disease-causing organism without being afflicted. In fact, the mosquito is critical to the parasite’s proper development. In order for the organism to become infectious to the human host, development within the mosquito for as many as two weeks must take place. “Malaria is transmitted from mosquito to human to mosquito, and so on,” Michel said. “The parasite is taken up in a blood meal and goes into the mosquito’s gut. From there, it travels from the gut into the circulatory system and on into the mosquito’s salivary glands, where it is transmitted to another human. The hope is that we can interrupt this
process somewhere along the way to inhibit transmission.” Michel has been studying how malaria interacts with the mosquito’s tissues and immune system in search of a weak link to exploit. Her most recent focus has been a set of proteins called serpins that regulate how the mosquito’s immune system responds to the parasite. Michel found that when a mosquito lacks this particular set of proteins it affects the amount of parasite found in the mosquito’s gut and salivary tissues. “These serpins are potential targets for new intervention strategies,” Michel said. Via gene manipulation, researchers could breed a variety of mosquito lacking the ability to effectively
transmit the parasite. A drug to cure the mosquito of the parasite could also be created, she said. Michel says her work in this area could potentially translate to other diseases because “nature doesn’t start completely over every time.” She said findings could be applied to both human and animal health. Michel received her PhD from the University of California at Riverside and joined the K-State faculty in 2007.
Malaria Research at the Molecular Level
Mosquitoes in Michel’s Lab
Current set-up of Principles of Biology Studio Format Classroom
Student listens to the audio tape during lab in the AT format
Students studying displays in the AT Format
Assessment Shows Studio Format Effective for Learning
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