Nancy Guild

TL;DR: The authors found that when students answer an in-class conceptual question individually using clickers, discuss it with their neighbors, and then revote on the same question, the percentage of correct answers typically increases.

TL;DR: A general model in which faculty and teaching assistants from diverse academic institutions are trained to teach a research course for first-year undergraduate students focused on bacteriophage discovery and genomics is developed, showing that this alliance-sourced model not only substantially advances the field of phage genomics but also stimulates students’ interest in science, positively influences academic achievement, and enhances persistence inScience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

TL;DR: Using primer extension sequencing on RNA templates isolated from T4 motA+ and motA- infected cells, this work has characterized 14MotA-dependent transcripts, and found that the phage-encoded motA protein can activate in trans a middle promoter resident on a plasmid.

TL;DR: A clicker-based study that untangles student thinking about the processes in the central dogma of biology, focused on two brothers who have multiple nucleotide differences in their dystrophin gene sequence, resulting in one who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and one who does not.