Welcome to the Gardner Research Group

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Front row: Dr. Anupriya Karippadath, Jill Cornell, Nouran Amin, and Emily Georgopoulos.  Second row:  Emily Hutton and Kal Holder.  Third row:  Mehul Shrivastava, Gabby Rump, Allison Peterson, and Eanna DeGuzman.  Back row: Perion Sharp, Dr. Lauren Stoczynski, Dr. Stephanie Gardner, Soumi Mukherjee, and Kayla Huter


 

Lab News

August 2024

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Congratulations to GRG members Jill Cornell, M.S. and Nouran Amin, Ph.D. on their graduation from Purdue!
Left to Right: Jill Cornell, Nouran Amin, Stephanie Gardner

 

July 2024

 

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Soumi and Emily mentored two undergraduates over the summer, culminating in a poster presentation by Alison Stefansic (left) at the end of the Summer Research Oppotunities Program (SROP).  Both Alison and Samantha Sarber (next to Alison) presented their work at the last GRG lab meeting of the summer.
Left to right: Alison Stefansic, Samantha Sarber, Stephanie Gardner, Emily Georgopoulos, Soumi Mukherjee

 

 

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GRG at SABER 2024 in Minneapolis, MN! Members reunite at lunch and at the banquet.
From left to right:
Top picture: Anupriya Karippadath (alumnus), Soumi Mukherjee, Michele Holcombe, Stephanie Gardner, Emily Georgopoulos, Traven Cargill, Krystal De Dios, Nouran Amin (alumnus), Sharleen Flowers (alumnus), Emily Hutton
Bottom picture: Sharleen, Anupriya, Emily H., Nouran, Emily G., Traven, Krystal, Michele, Soumi

 

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Nouran gives a research talk titled "Graphing Under the Microscope: Examining Undergraduates' Graph Knowledge in Introductory Biology Courses" all about her dissertation work.
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Emily Georgopoulos and Soumi Mukherjee presenting a poster titled "Exploring the features of integration in a Biology Integration Institute (BII)" about Soumi's project in the EMBRIO institute.
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Emily Hutton presenting a poster titled "From graph to claim: Variations of evidence used by students when evaluating hypotheses based on their graphed data" about her work in collaboration with SimBio.

 

July 2023

GRG at SABER 2023 (Minneapolis, MN))

GRG at SABER in Minneapolis, MN!

Left to right:  Sharleen Flowers (former GRG member), Jill Cornell, Stephanie, Soumi Mukherjee, Lauren Stoczynski, Nouran Amin, and Emily Georgopoulos

 

 April 2023

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Much excitement! Our research group would like to celebrate Anupriya on her doctoral defense! We also like to congratulate Emily H. and Soumi on passing their preliminary exam. In addition, congratulations to all our graduating undergraduates (Kal, Mehul, Kayla, and Gabby)! Although we wish them the best in their academic and professional journey, we will miss them dearly! Left to Right (bottom): Emily G,  Anupriya,  Stephanie,  Soumi and Emily H. Left to Right (top): Kal,  Mehul,  Allison,  Jill,  Lauren and Nouran

July 2022

SABER 2022 in Minneapolis, MN was exciting! Nouran gave a poster presentation on her work around understanding graphing practices in biology. Anupriya gave a poster presentation and a talk on her project regarding conceptions of scientific hypotheses and predictions. Left to Right: Nouran Amin, Anupriya Karippadath, and Stephanie Gardner

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  The Gardner lab reunites in-person to celebrate Sharleen's graduation at Stephanie's house. Top left to right: Emily Hutton, Nouran Amin, Lauren Stoczynski, Stephanie Gardner, Sharleen Flowers, Anupriya Karippadath. Bottom left to right: Kal Holder and Soumi Mukherjee

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April 2022

This month was very eventful and filled with many celebrations for our research group!

Sharleen defending her dissertation virtually

Sharleen successfully defended her Ph.D. on April 15! The title of her dissertation is "Where's the mechanism? Exploring features of undergraduate biology students' systems thinking in various contexts." More than 45 people came to witness Sharleen's defense!

Members of the biology education research community celebrating together

Members of the biology education research community meet to celebrate! Sharleen defended her dissertation, Anupriya won the Bilsland fellowship, and Emily and Jill officially joined the Gardner group! Pictured left to right is Emily, Anupriya, Stephanie, Soumi, Jill, and Annaleigh with Sharleen and Nouran on Zoom.

 

Undergraduate students in the Gardner research group participated in the Purdue University 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference! Perion Sharp and Mehul Shrivastava presented an in-person poster, titled "Agree to disagree? A national survey of biology researchers’ and educators’ conceptions of scientific hypotheses and predictions" based on data from Anupriya's project!

Gabrielle's virtual poster from the Purdue spring research conference

Gabrielle Rump submitted a virtual poster, titled "Analysis of Mechanistic Understanding in Biofilm Data" based on data from Sharleen's project!

Kal's recorded talk from the Purdue spring research conference

Kal gave an in-person talk (and submitted a recorded version!), titled "The Search for Mechanistic Explanations: Characterizing Biology Students’ and Instructors’ Connections Between Fundamental Biology Concepts" based on data from Sharleen's project!

March 2022

Congratulations to Kal Holder for being named Outstanding Junior in the Department of Biological Sciences for 2021-2022 AND for earning third place in Purdue University's 2022 Undergrad Research Pitch Competition!

Kal giving their three minute pitch

Kal delivered their 3 minute pitch "Characterizing Mechanistic Reasoning in the Context of Biofilm Formation by Biology Undergraduate Students" at Fowler Hall. Check out a recording of their pitch here!

November 2021

Kal's recorded talk from the Purdue fall research expo

Kal participated in the Purdue University 2021 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo. The title of their talk was "Characterizing Mechanistic Reasoning in the Context of Biofilm Formation by Biology Undergraduate Students."

July 2021

All lab members attended the 2021 SABER (Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research) conference virtually over Zoom this summer. Sharleen gave a talk over her dissertation project and Aya and Perion presented a poster on data from Anupriya's dissertation project.

Sharleen presenting her talk at the virtual SABER conference

Sharleen presented her dissertation project in her talk titled "Assembly required: How students and instructors define and connect biological processes." This talk was also supported by two undergraduate researchers, Kal and Gabrielle!

Perion and Aya presenting their poster at the virtual SABER conference

Perion and Aya presented data from Anupriya's dissertation project as a virtual poster, titled "Exploring variation in students' and instructors' conceptions of scientific hypotheses and predictions."

 

April 2021

Stephanie, Sharleen, and Anupriya attended the 2021 NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching) conference virtually over Zoom this spring. Both Sharleen and Anupriya gave talks over their dissertation projects.

Anupriya presenting her talk at the virtual NARST conference

Anupriya presented her dissertation project in her talk titled "Students' and instructors' conceptions of scientific hypotheses and predictions: A case for closer scrutiny." This talk was also supported by two undergraduate researchers, Perion and Aya!

Sharleen presenting her talk at the virtual NARST conference

Sharleen presented her dissertation project in her talk titled "Characterization of Undergraduate Students’ and Instructors’ Knowledge Integration of Cellular Biology Concepts."

August 2020

Stephanie, Sharleen, and Anupriya meeting virtually

The Gardner Lab snapped a group photo during a virtual lab meeting. Stephanie is pictured at Lake Michigan, Sharleen is pretending to be on a beach, and Anupriya is far away from the pandemic in space!

July 2020

Stephanie, Sharleen, and Anupriya attended the 2020 SABER conference virtually over Zoom this summer. All three virtually presented their posters on Padlet.

Stephanie presenting her poster at the virtual SABER conference

Stephanie presented work from the Exploring Biological Evidence project. Her poster focuses on data analyzed by Stephanie, Sharleen, and undergraduate researcher Eryn Sale. Her poster is titled "Evidentiary Reasoning Revealed: Analysis of Ecology Student Visual Models of Species Interactions."

Sharleen presenting her poster at the virtual SABER conference

Sharleen presented her dissertation project as a virtual poster, titled "Features of undergraduate students' knowledge integration in an open and specific biological context."

Anupriya presenting her poster at the virtual SABER conference

Anupriya presented her dissertation project as a virtual poster, titled "Exploring variation in students' and instructors' conceptions of scientific hypotheses and predictions."

February 2020

Sharleen and Anupriya celebrating at a pho restaurant.

The Gardner Lab celebrated Anupriya passing her preliminary examination in February 2020.  Pictured left to right is Sharleen and Anupriya at a pho restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana!

January 2020

Sharleen standing next to her poster at a WISP event

Sharleen won a travel grant through the Graduate Women in Science Programs (WISP) organization at Purdue University to present her research at the 2019 SABER conference. Here is Sharleen sharing her work with fellow WISPers at a WISP event.

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