The Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) was founded in 1979 to promote information exchange among university and college educators actively concerned with teaching biology in a laboratory setting. The focus of ABLE is to improve the undergraduate biology laboratory experience by promoting the development and dissemination of interesting, innovative, and reliable laboratory exercises.
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Each conference brings together a group of selected presenters with about 200 participants from university and college biology departments throughout Canada and the U.S. In three very full days, the participants are actively involved in four 3-hour “hands on” workshops and several shorter “mini” workshops and a poster session. The workshop presenters provide all of the essential information and experiences that the potential users of the laboratory would require in order to “take them home” and use the exercises in their own teaching program. The workshops are published in Advances in Biology Laboratory Education, formerly Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching (1980-2019), the conference’s peer-reviewed proceedings published by ABLE and available online.