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ABLE 2007: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY June 5-9. Host: Ruth Beattie
E-mail: rebeat1@uky.edu
Major Workshops
Thursday June 8
Eli Meir, SimBiotic Software; also Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EvoBeaker simulation software for teaching micro and macro evolutionary
biology
EvoBeaker is a new computer program written by SimBiotic Software, collaborating
with Jon Herron (co-author of Evolutionary Analysis) and Joel Kingsolver (UNC
Chapel Hill) for teaching evolutionary biology at the undergraduate level.
EvoBeaker includes six laboratories covering topics from the assumptions
behind natural selection to evolutionary trees to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,
at levels suitable for both introductory and non-majors biology as well as
intro evolution classes. The labs are inquiry-based and use real examples,
with a similar philosophy to the EcoBeaker ecology program. In this workshop,
participants will run through 2 of the introductory biology-level laboratories,
and we will present results from the extensive assessment we did on those
labs. We’ll also demonstrate
the other 4 labs in the program, and talk about the modeling engine and our
future plans for the next version.