Biology Leadership Community
BLC 2024 Agenda
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Friday, April 12
2:00 PM Registration
2:30 – 3:00 PM Orientation for Newcomers
3:00 – 4:30 PM Welcome to BLC 2024 (opening comments and icebreaker)
4:30 – 5:30 Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum Talk
6:00 PM Welcome Dinner
Saturday, April 13
7:00 – 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 AM Keynote Address: One cell divides into three things? — The curious story of the midbody remnant
Ahna Skop, University of Wisconsin, Madison
9:15 – 9:30 AM Break
9:30 – 11:00 Workshop 1: Exhaustion, Burnout, and Transformation: A Conversation
Mays Imad, Connecticut College
11:00 - 12:00 PM Lunch
12:00 – 1:30 Workshop 2: Alternate Student Conceptions
Melinda Owens, University of California, San Diego
Annie Zeidman-Karpinski, University of Oregon
1:30 – 2:30 Art Collaboration with Cyanotypes
Angela Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:30 – 5:00 PM Free Time/Optional Activities
5:00 – 7:00 PM Poster Session
7:00 PM Dinner
Sunday, April 14
7:00 – 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 – 10:15 AM Workshop 3: Fostering Academic Integrity in the GenAI Era: Policy & Conversation
Tricia Bertram Gallant, University of California, San Diego
9:00 – 9:15 AM Break
10:15- 11:15 AM Brief but Spectacular Sessions
Jeremy Hsu, Josh Premo, & Britt Wyatt
Dovid Kozlovsky, Ashok Upadhyaya Cindy Blakeslee, Elizabeth Harrison, & Will Brazelle
Mays Imad, Cindy Thomas-Charles, & Lisa Urry
11:15 AM – 11:30 PM Wrap-Up/Boxed Lunches to Go
11:30 - 12:30 PM Mastering Biology and Learning Catalytics Workshop