Principal Investigator, BEDROCK
Principal Investigator,
The BioQUEST Project
Editor, The BioQUEST Library
Mead Chair of the Sciences
and Professor of Biology
Biology Department
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Dr. Jungck has specialized in mathematical molecular evolution, history and philosophy of biology, and science education reform. In 1986, he co-founded the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, a national consortium of college and university biology educators devoted to curricular reform across the nation. It promotes quantitative, open-ended problem solving, collaborative learning, peer review, research, and civic engagement/social responsibility. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Thailand), a Mina Shaughnessy Scholar, a Fellow of the National Institute of Science Education, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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| The BEDROCK initiative will enhance, expand, and empower a national community of bioinformatics educators. Our goals will be achieved through a series of faculty development workshops around the country, recruiting and supporting a group of innovative faculty to implement and disseminate bioinformatics education materials, and publishing resources for bioinformatics education. Finally, we plan to build a networked collaboratory environment for developing and sharing bioinformatics education approaches. |
| Thailand Research Workshops |
1997:
Computational Molecular Biology 2000:
Computational Molecular Biology 2003:
Computational Molecular Biology |
The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and engages in the collaborative development of curricula. BioQUEST (Quality Undergraduate Education Simulations and Tools in Biology) encourages the use of simulations, databases, and tools to construct learning environments where students are able to engage in activities like those of practicing scientists.
BENZER
Deletion Mapping
Of Genetic "Fine Structure": Supplementing Ad Hoc Problem Solving
Approaches With Algorithms And Heuristics by John R. Jungck, Dept.
of Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI. and Vince Streif, Computer Center,
University of Wisconsin-Eau Clair, Eau Claire, WI.
Editorial Work (current and past)
- Editor, The BioQUEST Library
- Senior Editor for Bioinformatics, American Journal of Undergraduate Research
- Editorial Board, Cell Biology Education
- Book and Software Editor, BioScience
- Editor, Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching
- Editor, American Biology Teacher
- Associate Editor, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching
- Editorial Board, BioSystems: Journal of Molecular, Cellular and Behavioral Origins and Evolution
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Microbes Count! is a collection of computer-based investigations for the undergraduate microbiology laboratory. The simulations, case-studies, and computational models in Microbes Count! can be used to supplement standard textbooks throughout the undergraduate curriculum. The 40 lab investigations in the book utilize a variety of software and web-based resources, many of which are drawn from the peer-reviewed BioQUEST Library of computer-based curricular materials. The accompanying CD includes all of the software and other resources used in the book, as well as additional data sets, bibliographies, supplemental activities, and software manuals. A number of the activities were developed in collaboration with undergraduate faculty at the 2001 BioQUEST Summer Workshop. |
Jungck, JR, Fass, MF, Stanley, ES, Microbes Count: Problem Posing, Problem Solving and Peer Persuasion in Microbiology, ASM Press, 2003
Ten Equations that Changed Biology, Bioscene 23(1):11-36, 1997
Ignorance, Error and Chaos, Japanese Journal of Contemporary Philosophy or Modern Thought, 24(11): 363-376, 1996
Qualitative and Quantitative Pedigree Analysis: Graph Theory, Computer Software, and Case Studies, Bioscene, 21(1):12-22, 1995
Ten Questions for Creationist Policy Makers, Bioscene, 17(1):33, 1991
Deletion Mapping of Genetic "Fine Structure": Supplementing Ad Hoc Problem Solving Approaches with Algorithms and Heuristics, Bioscene, 12(1):13-27,1986
Articles Featuring Dr. Jungck and BioQUEST
Evolutionary Biology Instruction -- What students gain from learning through inquiry (pdf) Principled Practice In Mathematics & Science Education, the NCISLA newsletterr, Winter 2002
College Student Meets Electron Man: Initial panic turns to insight as students embrace online learning HHMI Bulletin, September 2001, pages 22-25.
Setting Science Standards: Preparing the New Era, a Beloit College Magazine cover story, Fall/Winter 1998
Science Educators Tour Computerized Biology Class, HHMI Bulletin, May 1995
John Jungck: The Godfather of Virtual Bio and Genetics Labs, Science, 4 Nov 1994, Vol. 266, pg. 888
Beyond
Bio 101: The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education
A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
BENZER: An Interval Graph Tool for Deletion
Mapping, Restriction Mapping, Complementation Mapping, Sequencing,
and Food Web Analysis co-authored with Vince Streif,
Ivica Ceraj, and Stephen J. Everse
BENZER can be used to generate problem sets, to interactively solve problems
from actual biological experiments by heuristic matrix manipulation, and to automatically
solve problems with a built-in algorithm that recognizes incompatibilities in
datasets.
BIRDD: Beagle Investigations Return with Darwinian
Data (The Darwin’s Finch Data Resource) co-authored with Frank Price,
Sam Donovan, and Jim Stewart
BIRDD is a rich collection of primary scientific data and supporting
materials about the Galápagos islands and Darwin’s finches including
information ranging from island names, maps, and weather, to summaries
of taxonomy, song recordings, DNA sequences, and measurements of more
than 650 specimens.
GCK (Genetics Construction Kit) co-authored
with John N. Calley
Genetics Construction Kit is a simulation of a classic Mendelian genetics
laboratory. It provides you with a set of organisms with unknown patterns
of inheritance, and gives you the tools to design and perform an experimental
strategy to discover these inheritance patterns.
µGCK (Microbial Genetics Construction Kit) co-authored
with John N. Calley
Microbial Genetics Construction Kit is a simulation of a microbial
genetics laboratory. It provides you with a set of unknown bacteria on
a petri
plate or in a test
tube. You can then investigate many of the characteristics of these bacteria
using
tools similar to those used in a real laboratory.
Inherit co-authored with Ben Jones and Patti Soderberg
Inherit is a pedigree drawing and analysis tool that can be
used in educational, clinical, and research settings. This software enables
you to explore questions regarding the role of inheritance in human traits
and syndromes. It allows you to enter a variety of kinds of data for
the members of a pedigree, and to change the display to reflect the presence
or absence of combinations of medical symptoms, background information,
your own diagnoses, or any type of data you care to enter.
Evolution
Evolution is a genetic consequence of ecological causes. The history
and philosophy of evolutionary theory, the genetic basis of microevolution,
contemporary hypotheses of speciation, and phylogenetic systematics compose
the major course material. Four lectures/discussions per week along with
frequent computer simulation laboratories and field trips to museums,
a zoo, a plant conservatory, a county fair, and paleontological collection
sites.
Genetics
Mendelian, population, quantitative, and molecular genetics are developed
through a problem-solving approach. Social controversies surrounding
such items as genetic counseling, domestic breeding of crops, genetic
engineering, mutagenic substances in our environment, and natural selection
will be discussed. Two lectures, one computer session, one problem session,
and one laboratory period per week.
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Cells are recognized as the fundamental units of life. How do they grow,
differentiate, divide, move, adjust to their environment, evolve? Cellular
mechanisms of metabolism and regulation, motility, cytoarchitectural
dynamics, pattern formation, morphogenesis, information transfer, permeability,
and heat regulation will be explored. How are animal, bacterial, fungal,
plant, and protozoan cells similar? Different? Laboratory projects emphasize
synthesis of experimental, theoretical, and modeling approaches to cellular
and developmental biology; digital video microscopy and quantitative
image analysis; building a scientific apparatus; and generating original
research. Four lectures/discussions and one laboratory period per week.
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
This new course will be offered for the first time in Spring 2004.
East:West (a First Year Initiative Seminar co-taught
with John Rosenwald)
What did Frank Lloyd Wright learn from Japanese aesthetics? How did Canadian
nationalism affect Canadian Joy Kogawa during
World War II? How did Maya Lin capture a sense of both grief and pride
in the Vietnam War Memorial and in her Southern Poverty Law
Center Civil Rights Memorial? What did Peter Matthiessen discover about
Buddhism, environmentalism, and himself during his trek
across the Himalayas? Did Sun Li own his water buffalo or did the water
buffalo own him? What do Chinese landscape painters have in
common with contemporary fractal geometers? Why was formal "Fuzzy
Logic" more easily adopted in Japan and China than in the
USA? How does contemporary Indian dance fuse the aesthetics of East and
West, classicism and modernism? In this seminar, we will
focus on the interaction of Western and Eastern cultures in a number of
texts (Kogawa's Obasan, Lin's Boundaries, Tao-te Ching, The
Sonnets to Orpheus, Fuzzy Logic, Qiu Xiaolong's Death of a Red Heroine,
poetry of Bei Dao, and James Elkins's The Object Stares Back: On the Nature
of Seeing) and topics (biogeography, art and architectural history, the
excluded middle, cyclic and linear time). Our
materials will be maps, buildings, mountains, words, genes, dances, paintings-all
reveal how our visions stem from our cultural
backgrounds. In addition to substantial work in writing, reading, speaking,
and listening, we will attempt to learn how a combination of
international approaches can help first-year students make the transition
to the complex academic and social environment called
college.
Special Projects with Students
| Art of Mathematical Biology | ||
 DNA Topology Srebrenka Robic 1997 |
 Knotty DNA Anna Farbotko 2003 |
 Voronoi Diagrams in Biology Zdravko Jeremic 2001 |
 Shell Morphology Adam Robics 1995 |
 Seeds Giancarlo Schrementi 2001 |
 Sand Dollars Vanja Klepac 1998 |
Genomics and Public Policy -- Emily Kaltenbach and Colette Bina, '97
Students' Papers
A Fractal Model of Leaf Growth -- Jon Jay Obernark and Joan Kelly Bioscene, 14(2):16-26, 1988
Strobomicroscopy: A Quantitative, Noninvasive Biophysics Lab -- Juli Zanocco, Stephen Everse, and Ian Caldicott Bioscene, 14(1):24-30, 1988
Present:
- Chair of the Education Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology
- Education Committee of the American Institute for Biological Sciences
- Two National Research Council committees: the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education and the International Union of Biological Sciences committee.
Past
- Education Committee of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
- Executive Board of the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences.
- 10 Equations That Changed Biology (And That Should Change Biology Education)
- Reading The Book Of Life: How Bioinformatics Makes Sense of Molecular Messages
- Genetic Codes as Codes: Towards a Theoretical Basis for Bioinformatics
- Topological Toys, Tinkering Thinking: Knot Theory and DNA
- Escherian Esthetics of Voronoi Polygons and Polyhedra: How to Fold a Protein and Scale Independence in Irregular Biological Patterns
- Patterns In Nature
- Relationships: Graph Theory For Biologists
- Heredity, Health and Humanity
- Darwin: Positivist or Theist
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Email: John Jungck |
