PUBLICATIONS

Using current events to engage students in scientific discourse

Julie Minbiole. The American Biology Teacher, (in press, manuscript accepted November 22, 2023)

GETTING MORE OUT OF LESS: DESIGNING SHORT HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS THAT FOCUS ON APPLICATION & ANALYSIS

Julie Minbiole, Stephen Traphagen. The American Biology Teacher, February 2022, 84 (2): 103–105.

Increasing student completion of long-form questions using bullet-point prompts.

Elizabeth C. Davis-Berg, Julie Minbiole, School Science Review, June, 2020, 101(377), 64-66.

Improving Course Coherence and Assessment Rigor: Understanding by design in a Non-Majors Biology course

Julie Minbiole. American Biology Teacher, August 2016, 78(6): 463-471.

DROSOPHILA glutamate receptor mRNA expression and mRNP particles

Subhashree Ganesan, Julie E Karr and David E Featherstone RNA Biology, Sept-Oct. 2011, 8(5): 771-781; dos:10.4161/rna.8.6.16014 

Nature Reviews Neuroscience: MicroRNAs have receptor subunits in a bind

A highlight of the paper below in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Eleanor Beal, 10, page 469, 10 June, 2009

Regulation of glutamate receptor subunit availability by microRNAs

Julie Karr, Vasia Vagin, Kaiyun Chen, Subhashree Ganesan, Oxana Olenkina, Vladimir Gvozdev, and David E. Featherstone. The Journal of Cell Biology, 11 May, 2009, 185(4): 685-697; doi: 10.1083/jcb.20090262

Genome-wide P-element screen for Drosophila synaptogenesis mutants

Faith LW Liebl, Kristen M. Werner, Qi Sheng, Julie E Karr, Brian D McCabe, and David E Featherstone. Journal of Neurobiology, March 2006, 66(4): 332-347; doi: 10.1002/neu.20229

Increased synaptic microtubules and altered synapse development in Drosophila sec8 mutants

Faith LW Liebl, Kaiyun Chen, Julie Karr, Qi Sheng, and David E Featherstone. BMC Biology, 13 December 2005, 3:27; doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-3-27

An essential Drosophila glutamate receptor subunit that functions in both central neuropil and neuromuscular junction

David E Featherstone, Emma Rushton, Jeffrey Rohrbough, Faith Liebl, Julie Karr, Qi Sheng, Christopher K Rodesch, and Kendal Broadie. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23 March 2005, 25(12): 3199-3208; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4201-04.2005

Epithelial Differentiation Promotes the Adherence of Type 1–Piliated Escherichia coli to Human Vaginal Cells

David J Klumpp, Sarah G Forrestal, Julie E Karr, Christopher S Mudge, Byron E Anderson, Anthony J Schaeffer. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11 November, 2002, (11):1631-1638; doi:10.1086/345557

PRESENTATIONS

• What are we learning now? Reducing cognitive clutter to focus students on science practice.

  Kirstin Milks, Julie Minbiole, and Stephen Traphagen. National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 2-5 November, 2023, Baltimore, MD

• Supporting student development and recovery: leveraging science practices in the post-quarantine biology classroom

  Kirstin Milks, Julie Minbiole, and Stephen Traphagen. National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 10-13 November, 2022, Indianapolis, IN

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• Beyond Current Events: Using contemporary readings and media to support student science practice.

  Julie Minbiole and Stephen Traphagen. Presented at the National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 11-14 November 2021, Atlanta, GA.

• Designing Courses to Integrate Student-Centered Learning: A Constructivist Workshop for College and High School Instructors. Jim Lane, Kirstin Milks, Julie Minbiole, Margaret Silliker, Isaac Stewart, and Stephen Traphagen. National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 14-17 November, 2019, Chicago, IL.

• Debrief, Coaching, and Networking Around Student- centered Active Learning. Jim Lane, Kirstin Milks, Julie Minbiole, Margaret Silliker, and Stephen Traphagen. National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 14-17 November, 2019, Chicago, IL.

• Student-Centered Active Learning For College and High School Biology: Strategies for transforming your course using a constructivist approach. Jim Lane, Kirstin Milks, Julie Minbiole, Margaret Silliker, and Stephen Traphagen. National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, San Diego, CA, November X-XX, 2018

• Care and Use of Invertebrates in the classroom. Elizabeth Davis-Berg, Julie Minbiole, Michael LaBarbera

          National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 9-11 November, 2017, St. Louis, MO.

• Getting more out of less: short homework assignments that focus on application and analysis. Julie Minbiole.

          National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 3-5 November 2016, Denver, CO.

• Implementing Vision & Change in your course: Improving course coherence, assessment, and student engagement using Understanding by Design planning. Julie Minbiole and Stephen Traphagen.

National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 12-14 November 2015, Providence RI.

• Rigor for all: An inclusive approach to non-majors science education. Elizabeth Davis-Berg, Julie Minbiole, Heather Minges-Wols, Michelle Rafacz.

National Science Teachers Association, 12-15 March 2015, Chicago IL. 

• Transforming Assessment of Student Learning in a Multi-Discipline Department. Gerald Adams, Daniel Jordan, Timothy McCaskey, Julie Minbiole, Christopher Shaw.

National Science Teachers Association, 12-15 March 2015, Chicago IL.

• Care and use of invertebrates in the classroom (on the cheap). Elizabeth Davis-Berg, Michael LaBarbera, Julie Minbiole.

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 3-7 January 2015, West Palm Beach, FL.

POSTERS

• Increasing Access to Undergraduate Biology Learning by Examining Stereotype Threat and Other Social Factors.

        Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research, 9-14 July 2017, Easton, MA. 

• Drosophila melanogaster food choice and survival on different sugars and sugar derivatives: an unorthodox learning experience for students not majoring in chemistry.

American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, 2-6 April 2017, San Francisco CA.

• Increasing student completion rate on quizzes and exams by using bullet points or number prompts.

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, 4-8 January 2017, New Orleans LA.

• Effects of erythritol on Drosophila melanogaster: An undergraduate research study performed by students not majoring in chemistry.

American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, 13-17 March 2016, San Diego CA.

• Differential regulation of Drosophila glutamate receptor subunit production by optimus-prime, a novel mRNA associated gene.

Annual Drosophila Research Conference - Genetics Society of America, 4-8 March 2015, Chicago IL.

• Improving Course Coherence and Refining Assessments: Using Understanding by Design in an Undergraduate Course.

National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 12-14 November 2014, Cleveland OH.

• Increasing Access to Rigor: Adaptation of a Majors Level Course for a Non-Majors Population.

National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference, 20-23 November 2013, Atlanta GA.

• Differential regulation of Drosophila glutamate receptor subunit production by optimus-prime (or), a novel receptor mRNA associated gene.

Midwest Drosophila Research Conference, 2-3 November 2013, Allerton IL.

• Sub-type specific regulation of Drosophila glutamate receptor production by the novel mRNA associated genes optimus-prime (opr) and bumblebee (bbe)”

Annual Drosophila Research Conference - Genetics Society of America, 7-11 March 2012, Chicago IL.

• Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Subunit Availability by MicroRNAs.

Neurobiology of Drosophila Meeting, 3-7 October 2007, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.