Current Courses

Spring 2025

  • BIOL 2030-001
    Genetics
    Location: ASB 220 (ASB 220)
  • BIOL 2030-002
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 120 (JTB 120)
  • BIOL 2030-003
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 120 (JTB 120)
  • BIOL 2030-004
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 110 (JTB 110)
  • BIOL 2030-005
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 130 (JTB 130)
  • BIOL 2030-006
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 320 (JTB 320)
  • BIOL 2030-007
    Genetics
    Location: CSC 10-12 (CSC 10-12)
  • BIOL 2030-011
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 140 (JTB 140)
  • BIOL 2030-012
    Genetics
    Location: CSC 13 (CSC 13)
  • BIOL 2030-013
    Genetics
    Location: CSC 25 (CSC 25)
  • BIOL 2030-014
    Genetics
    Location: CSC 25 (CSC 25)
  • BIOL 2030-015
    Genetics
    Location: JTB 320 (JTB 320)

Professional Organizations

  • AAAS. 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018. Position : Member.
  • American Association of Plant Biologists. 01/10/1990 - present. Position : Member.

Teaching Philosophy

My philosophy is that by teaching students how science is done, they then learn to think about science, and they understand how scientific progresses is achieved.  I put this philosophy into effect by focusing my plant developmental biology teaching on only three major topics, and covering each topic in depth.  Each topic module consists of one introductory lecture, and then straight to the primary literature.  I select a suite of papers that follows the progression of one research topic.  To empower the students to read these primary literature articles, I prepare and stream webcasts that provide the necessary background, and then focus their efforts for discussion of specific topics.  Each class meeting is not a lecture, but instead a classroom discussion, focused on the questions raised in the webcast.  Through this approach, the students learn that science is an on-going activity, they learn that data must be interpreted (and how to interpret it), and they learn that discoveries can cause previous interpretations to change. 

Teaching Projects

  • Redesigning the Biology Freshman Experience: Development of a new Introductory Biology Series. Project Lead: Leslie Sieburth. Collaborators: James Ehleringer, David Carrier, Neil Vickers, Naina Phadnis, Julie Hollien, William Brazelton, Sarah Bush. College of Science 02/01/2017 - 01/31/2019.