Courses

Faculty Member

Highest Degree in this Specialty Area

Professional Development Experience in Last 3 Years

Familiarity with K-12 Curriculum Framework and MEAP Assessment

Special Awards and Recognition

P-12 Collaborative Work

BIOL 110:

Intro I

 Jamin Eisenbach

 Ph.D., Entomology, 1985

Presentation at the 2001 Ecological Society of America.  Madison, Wisconsin. Ovipositional preferences of a seed-eating moth reared on parental and hybrid cattails.

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Recent Teaching Awards

 2001 EMU Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award

2002 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Teaching II Award

Provided materials and guidance to pre-service students for the preparation of lesson plans on insects and  insect development taught in local schools.

 BIOL 110:

Intro I

 Steve

Francoeur

 Ph.D. Aquatic Biology, 2001.

 Presentation at the 2001 Ecological Society of America.  Madison, Wisconsin. Ovipositional preferences of a seed-eating moth reared on parental and hybrid cattails.

 Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

 Recent  Grant Award

“Investigationof interactions between autotrophs and heterotrophs in periphyton

attached to emergent plant detritus and their effect on wetland plant

decay” (with K. Kuehn and R. Neely), National Science Foundation, $274,959, 2003-2005.

Recent Publications

Francoeur, S. N.  and K. A. Kuehn. 2003.  Substratum-associated

microbiota.  Water Environment Research Literature Review, 75(5) 42 pp., in press</italic.

Francoeur, S. N., and R. G. Wetzel.  2003. Regulation of periphytic

leucine-aminopeptidase activity. Aquatic MicrobialEcology, 31(3): 249-258.

Francoeur, S. N., E. M. Espeland, and R. G. Wetzel.  2003. Short-termeffects of nitrogen and extracellular protease amendment on algalproductivity in nitrogen-deprived periphyton. Journal of

Freshwater Ecology, 18(1): 105-113.

 Student poster judge, North American Benthological Society meeting,

2003.

Judge, National Ocean Sciences Bowl, 2003.

Coordinated an AP Biology class tour of EMU Biology Department for

Marian High School, 2003.

 BIOL 110:

Intro I

And

BIOL 301:

Genetics

 Robert Winning

 Ph.D., Molecular Biology, 1990

 Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

 Recent Publications

Winning, R. S., Ward, E. K., Scales, J. B., and Walker, G. K., 2002. EphA4 catalytic activity causes inhibition of RhoA GTPase in Xenopus laevis embryos. Differentiation 70: 46-55.

Winning, R. S., Wyman, T. L., and Walker, G. K., 2001. EphA4 activity causes cell shape change and a loss of cell polarity in Xenopus laevis embryos. Differentiation 68: 126-132.

Winning, R.S., Scales, J.B., and Sargent, T.D., 1996. Disruption of cell adhesion in Xenopus embryos by Pagliaccio, an Eph- class receptor tyrosine kinase. Developmental Biology 179: 309-319.

Scales, J.B., Winning, R.S., Renaud, C.S., Shea, L.J., and Sargent, T.D., 1995. Novel members of the Eph receptor tyrosine kinase subfamily expressed during Xenopus development. Oncogene 11: 1745-1752.

Winning, R.S. and Sargent, T.D., 1994. Pagliaccio, a member of the Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinase genes, has localized expression in a subset of neural crest and neural tissues in Xenopus laevis embryos. Mechanisms of Development 46: 219-229.

 BIOL 120:

Intro II

 Gary Hannan,

 Ph.D., Botany, 1979

 Botanical Society of America Teaching Section, Forum on Botanical Education: Botany in the Curriculum: Integrating Research and Teaching, August 2-4, Madison, WI.

 Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

 BIOL 120:

Intro II

And

BIOL 311:

Lab in Ecology

 Uli Reinhardt

 Ph.D., Zoology 1998

 1) Paper presentation Fish Biology Congress Scotland, June, 2000.

2) Paper presentation at Canadian Conference of Fisheries Research, Jan. 2001.

2) Paper presentation at Canadian Conference of Fisheries Research, Jan. 2002.

3) Participation in International Cultural Competence Institute (workshop) June 2002.

4) World College Fellow, Winter 2003.

5) Participated in Strategies for Science Success Teaching Workshop, winter 2003

 Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

 Funded Grant Proposal: Integrated barriers for the control of exotic fish species. EPA Great Lakes Program Office. $56K 2003-2005

Recent Publication:

Dominance and predator avoidance in domesticated and wild masu salmon. Fish. Sci. 69: 88-94.2003.

 1) Family Day at EMU- Saturday Morning in the Lab, 2003

BIOL  301:

Genetics

David Kass

Ph.D. Biological Sciences

1990

1) attended bioinformatics workshop  june 2003

2) attended microarray workshop february 2002

3) scientific review activities:
reviewer of manuscripts for genomics, journal of molecular evolution,

Journal of molecular biology, analytical biochemistry, biotechniques,

Dna sequence, american journal of human genetics, genome research.  

Reviewer of a grant proposal for nsf. 

4) professional society memberships: 

American association for the advancement of science

International society of molecular evolution

American society of human genetics

Society for the study of evolution

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Publications

Kass d.h., raynor m.e., and williams t.m.  Evolutionary history of b1
retroposons in the genus mus.  J. Mol. Evol.  51:256-264, 2000.

Kass d.h.   Impact of sines and lines on the mammalian genome.  Current
genomics. 2:199-219, 2001.

Kass d.h., and doucet j.p.  Molecular phylogeny of the louisiana
nutria.  Proc. Louisiana acad.  Sci.  63:10-24, 2002.

Kass d.h., and batzer m.a.  Transposable genetic elements, in genetics
(encyclopedia).  R. Robinson 
 (ed).  New york: macmillan reference usa, vol. 4 pp. 143-148, 2003.

Kass d.h., and batzer m.a.  Pseudogenes, in genetics (encyclopedia). 
R. Robinson (ed).  New york:
 macmillan reference usa, vol. 3 pp. 209-213, 2003.

Kass d.h. Generation of human dna profiles by alu-based multiplex pcr. 
Anal. Biochem. In  press.

Patent

deininger p.l. And kass d.h.  High density polymorphic genetic locus. 
Usp 6,544,730.  April 8, 2003.

Grants

Nsf-ccli (award 0126640), 9/02-8/05.  Adaptation and implementation of
inquiry-based genomics into the undergraduate curriculum. $123,709.

Graduate studies and research support fund, eastern michigan
university, 5/02-7/02.  Analysis of retroposons in the guinea pig
genome.  $2,000.

 Nih-area, 9/02-8/05 (award gm6282801a1).  Retropositional or repressor
machinery of sines & lines.  $132,250.

BIOL  301:

Genetics

Daniel Clemans

Ph.D., 1991, Microbiology

1) MI-ASM fall and spring meetings

2) ASM annual meetings, & Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting

ASM UG Education Conferences

3) FCIE Faculty forum spring 2002

4) Bioinformatics workshops, June 2003

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

NIH/NHLBI grant, January 2003-December 2005, PI

American Lung Association grant, July 2002-June 2004, PI

NSF/CCLI grant, September 2002-August 2005, PI

1) Organized EMU’s Daughter Day

2) Event Coordinator for Microbiology event at Wayne County Science Olympiad 2002-2003.

3) EMU Microbiology Club Outreach events sponsor 2001-2003.

4) Conducted cell biology and heredity activities to middle school students at the Canton Charter Academy, March 2003.

BIOL 305:

Cell & Mol

Biology

Henry Zot

Ph.D., Pharmacology,

1986

1) American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) Education workshop (Dec. 2000 & 2002).

2) Bioinformatics Workshops (June, 2003).

3) Poster presentation at ASCB Dec. 2000, 2001, 2003).

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Recent Research Grants

1) NSF funded 2002-2005.

2) Alfred P. Sloan to develop bioinformatics masters program at EMU 2002-2003.

3) NIH funded 1999 – 2003.

Recent Publications

Zot, H.G. Bhaskara1 , V., and Liu, L. (2000) Acan125 binding to the SH3 domain of Acanthamoeba myosin-IC. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 375: 161-164.

Qian, Y., Baisden, J.M., Zot, H.G., Van Winkle, B., and Flynn, D.C. (2000) The carboxy terminus of AFAP-110 modulates direct interactions with actin filaments and regulates its ability to alter actin filament integrity and induce lamellipodia formation. Exp. Cell Res. 255:102-113

Baisden, J.M., Qian, Y., Zot, H.G. and Flynn, D.C. (2001) The actin filament-associated protein AFAP-110 is an adapter protein that modulates changes in actin filament integrity. Oncogene 20:6435-47

BIOL 310:

Ecology

Kevin Kuehn

Ph.D.  Aquatic Ecology, 1991

1) Presentation at the 2002

Summer Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Abst.).

2) Presentation at the 7^th International Mycological Congress, Oslo, Norway. (Abst.). 2002.

3) Presentation at the  51^st annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society. Athens, Georgia. (Abst.). 2003.

 Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Recent Grant Award:

 National Science Foundation (NSF) – Steven Francoeur, Kevin A. Kuehn and Robert K. Neely. RUI-Investigation of Interactions between autotrophs and heterotrophs in periphyton attached to emergent plant detritus and their effect on wetland plant decay $ 275,000 (Funded June 2003)

Recent Publication:

Findlay, S.E.G., S. Dye and K.A. Kuehn. 2002. Microbial growth and nitrogen

retention in litter of Phragmites australis compared to Typha angustifolia. Wetlands 22:616-625.

BIOL 310:

Ecology

And

BIOL 311:

Lab in Ecology

Cathy Bach

Ph.D., Biological 

Sciences, 1979

Seminar presentations

University of canterbury, nz  2003
university of michigan biological station  2002
bowling green state university   2000

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

University Awards

1)Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Scholarly/Creative Activity,
 2003

2)Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellowship - 2002-2003
3)Outstanding Advisor Award - EMU - 2000
4) Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellowship - EMU - 1994-1995
 

Recent Publications

Bach, C. E.  2001.  Long-term effects of insect herbivory on responses
by Salix cordata to sand accretion.  Ecology 82: 397-409.

Bach, C. E.  2001.  Long-term effects of insect herbivory and sand
accretion on plant succession on sand dunes.  Ecology 82: 1401-1416.

Bach, C. E.  and D. Kelly.  2004.  Effects of forest edges, fruit
colour, and fruit display size on bird seed dispersal in a New Zealand
mistletoe, Alepis flavida.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28(1):  In
Press.

BIOL 315:

Evolution

Peter Bednekoff

Ph.D., Zoology 1992

Presentation at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Montreal, Canada July 2002

Presentation at the

Animal Behavior Society meeting, Bloomington, IN July 2002

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Recent Publications: Bednekoff, P.A. & Lima, S.L. 2002 “Why are scanning patterns so variable?  An overlooked question in the study of anti-predator vigilance” Journal of Avian Biology 33: 143-149

Bednekoff, P.A. 2002. "On Hotshots and Lotteries: Are the best males on larger leks better than expected?" Behavioral Ecology 13: 580-1

Bednekoff, P. 2003. “Lawless Biology” The American Biology Teacher 65: 167

1) Presenter, Tulsa Summer Workshop for Teachers, 1998-2001

2) Member: Animal Behavior Society Education Committee

3) Panel member, National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education, Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program, 2000.

ZOO 326:

Human

Physiology

Howard Booth

Ph.D. 1974, Biology

Attended Benjamin/Cummings workshop on teaching techniques in physiologypresentation

EMU faculty symposium on teaching innovation

Power Point presentation                

to Mill Creek research council the results of a 2 year study of microbiological and chemical  stream contaminants

Co-Produced and Co- presented a Power Point lecture and CD- on innovative techniques in physiology lecture and labs with Tamara Greco

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.  

Recent Pulications

Booth, H. D. 1993. Birds of the Galapagos and Human Impact, keynote speaker for the Michigan Audubon Society Annual Labor Day Weekend "Campout".

Booth, H. D. and M. Palaski. 1995. Zebra mussel pseudofaeces production, degradation, and their potential for removal of PCBs from freshwater. Presented at the Michigan Academy annual meeting.

Bailey, A. S. and H. D. Booth. 1997. Seasonal variation in roosting and nesting populations of colonial waterbirds on selected mangrove islands of the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Presented at the Michigan Academy annual meeting.

Contract to publish a CD-Rom of Human Physiology lectures as a teaching suppliment for the 3d Editon of Human Physiology by Dee Sliverthorn.

Emu faculty symposium on teaching innovation

Co-Produced and Co- presented a Power Point lecture and CD- on innovative techniques in physiology lecture and labs with Tamara Greco

BIOL 306:

Cell – Molec & Genetics

Lab

Marianna Laporte

Ph.D. Botany (Molecular Biology and Physiology),

1) Attended Midwest American Society of Plant Biologists Conference, March 2002

2) Attended Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, July 2002

3) Attended National Science Foundation Regional Grants Conference, October, 2002

4) Received Council on Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship to fund student research by the student of my choice, Summer, 2003

5) Spoke at the University of Toledo Department of Biological Sciences Friday Seminar series, May, 2003

6) Presented two poster presentations at the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, June, 2003

Syllabus aligns with MCF, receives updated information about MCF and MEAP at faculty meetings, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.

1) Eastern Michigan University New Faculty Award, 2001

2) Eastern Michigan University Spring-Summer Award, 2002, 2003

3) Eastern Michigan University Research Support Fund Award, 2002

4) USDA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2001

1) Spoke with a visiting group of High School Students from Bloomfield Hills, March, 2003

2) Treasurer, Wines Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization

3) Explore Eastern, Eastern Michigan University’s Recruitment Information Day for prospective undergraduate students, October, 2002

BIOL 403

Methods in Secondary

Biology

Peggy Liggit

Ph.D. Cell and Molecular Biology, 1994.

Secondary

(7-12) Certification in Biology and Chemistry in the states of Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

1) Attended Great Lakes Fisheries and Ecosystems

Education Conference, May, 2003.

2) Paper presentation at the National Association of Biology Teachers National Conference, Oct. 2002.

3) Workshop presentation at the National Science Teachers Association National Conference, March 2002.

3)  Academic Service Learning Fellow, Fall 2001

Member of 2 MDE referent groups for proposal development of program standards.  Author of NCATE (NSTA Science Folio, 2002) and MDE State reports, 2003.Syllabus aligns with MCF, seeks out updated information about MCF and MEAP - distributes to faculty, and keeps on file current MCF benchmarks and MEAP released information.

Recent Publication:

Get WET: Bringing Water and Wetland Education to After-School Programs, American Biology Teacher, in press 2003.

Funded Grant Proposal:

The Water Educational Training (WET) Science Project, $90,000. Eisenhower Higher Educational Development, 1999-2001.

1) Member of Chelsea School District Curriculum Committee, 1999 to present. 

2) Science Fair Judge – Estabrook Elementary School 1999-2003.

3) College Volunteer for the Rouge Education Project, Canton High School, 2003.

4) Washtenaw Science Olympiad Events Sponsor for Water Quality 2000-2003.

4) Family Day at EMU- Saturday Morning in the Lab, 1999- 2003.

5) Established Academic Service-Learning partnerships with Ypsilanti Public Schools and EMU’s BIOL 303 and 403 methods courses (science fair judging, Washtenaw Science Olympiad event sponsors, teaching science lessons to children in Estabrook Elementary, West Middle School, and Ypsilanti High School)

6) Odyssey of the Mind 5^th Grade sponsor at Pierce Lake Elementary School, Chelsea, MI.– 2002-2003.