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Kristen St. John is a professor of Geology at James Madison University. Her talk was titled "Building a Stronger DBER Community: Disciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Examples."

Barbara Hug is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk was titled "Using Ecosystem Models to Examine Students' Developing Understanding of Vector-Borne Disease."

Presentation: Extending a Coherent Gateway to STEM Teaching and Learning

Dr. Louise Mead is the Education Director at the BEACON Center at MSU, and Dr. Alexa Warwick is the Evolution and Outreach Postdoc at the BEACON Center at MSU. Their talk was titled "ConnectedBio Curriculum: Three-Dimensional Learning from Molecules to Populations."

Marilyne Stains is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her talk was titled "Important of Characterizing STEM Faculty Members' Instructional Mindsets and Practices in an Era of Instructional Transformation."

Kevin Haudek is an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. His talk was titled "Using Automated Analysis to Reveal Student Thinking."

Christa Haverly is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Her talk was titled "Developing Urban Elementary Teachers' Responsiveness to Students' Scientific Sense-Making."

Presentation: Blending chemical and mathematical knowledge as solve problems in chemical kinetics. Answering recent calls for discipline-based education research and interdisciplinary work

Valerie Otero is a professor of science education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her talk was titled "The Learning Assistant Model as a Catalyst for Instructional Improvement and Institutional Change."

Matthew Kloser is an Associate Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the founding director of the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. His talk was titled "Is Biology Education Evolving? Critiquing Three Cases of High School and Undergraduate Biology Education Reform."