Crystal Uminski
@CrystalUminski
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Asst. Professor at @TowsonU. Biology education researcher #DBER. Enthusiastic about movies and cats. she/her 📝🧬🎬🐈⬛
Baltimore, MD
Joined March 2021
Tonight’s painting: Turnip in the David Byrne Big Suit 🎨
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I perused published figures and found misshaped chromosomes, mismatched chromatids, and missized genes! Yikes! . Representing chromosomes and genes can be a tricky task, so I published ideas for easy edits to figures that can mitigate misconceptions.
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An evening of painting root vegetables and a cat named after them 🎨
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I try to explore each city I travel to for conferences. This year, I attended SABER in Minneapolis to present research on how visual models are used on biology exams and I adventured to Prince's Paisley Park!
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I’m attending a science communication education research meeting and found the perfect book in a local bookstore for the occasion! I study models of chromosomes and this 1960s educational book is filled with fascinating illustrations of chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis models!
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If you are attending the @SABERcommunity conference next week, I'll be sharing this work in a short talk on Saturday at 10:00 in Bruininks 220!.
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Visual models are a key part of learning molecular biology, yet our new research found that only 16% of exam questions contain a model and those questions tend to use models to assess memorizable facts. If you teach models, make sure to test models too!.
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David Byrne was the first piece of art to go up on my walls in my new home because David Byrne said it best — home is where I want to be.
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One last night in Rochester means there’s time for one last garbage plate!
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RT @SABERcommunity: SABER East 2025 was a success!. Many thanks to the SABER East Planning Committee, our host institution @RITscience, and….
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My amazing mentor, Dina Newman, made a cake of my research logo to celebrate my last few days as an RIT postdoc!
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That's a wrap on SABER East 2025! I had such a great experience helping to plan the conference and I was so happy to see so many people who care about biology education here in Rochester!
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RT @SABERcommunity: The second SABER East is off to a roaring start at Rochester Institute of Technology!
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When you’re going to a screening of Lolita at the museum, you’ve got to wear your matching heart-shaped glasses!
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I’ll be moving to Baltimore soon, so I’ve got to get in my last chances for color coordinated photos on the RIT campus!
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What might make learning ATP hydrolysis a bit easier for students? Showing the bonds breaking and forming in the reaction!. Read about our new research in microPublication Biology! .
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