Teaching Faculty #80

General Information

Academic History

B.S.A. University of Saskatchewan, Honours in Crop Science

Ph. D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Postdoc University of British Columbia

Contact Information

Email
jklenz@mail.ubc.ca
Office Phone
Office Location
Room 4045 Biosciences
Lab Phone
Lab Location
Room 2115 Biosciences

Teaching Information

Teaching Interests

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, -specifically related to Genetics

Climate change, Assisted Evolution of Coral Reefs

Courses Taught/Teaching

BIOL 180 (formerly BIOL 140) Thinking Like a Scientist

BIOL 234 Fundamentals of Genetics

BIOL 337 Introductory Genetics Lab

Community Work

Growing Chefs, a local initiative to teach children about growing, cooking and eating plants

Jennifer wearing some plants used in chef lesson and a students aesthetic salad plate

Jennifer wearing plants used in cooking during lesson   AND    student's aesthetic salad plate

Selected Publications

Klenz, J. (2021) A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Using Pictorial Expression Data in Bioinformatics Assignments. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education Publication of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education Volume 42, Article 33, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

Klenz, J.(FA) and Couch, B.  (2021) Teach it to Children: Placemat Posters. Volume 42, Article 63, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

placemat poster about student-made placemat posters

Klenz, J.(FA, SA), Leander, C. and McDonnell, L. (2021) Alternative Assessments for Online Teaching That Are Bulletproof (Cheat-resistant) Advances in Biology Laboratory Education Publication of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education Volume 42, Article 45, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

Klenz, J., M. Chow and T. Fontana. 2015. Are You a Hidden Heterozygote? Use of PCR to Genotype Brown vs. Blue- Eye-Color Alleles. Article 61 in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 36 (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-36/ v36reprint.php?ch=61 

McDonnell, L. and Klenz, J. 2015. Teaching Genetic Linkage and Recombination through Mapping with Molecular Markers. CourseSourcehttps://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2015.13