CONFERENCE: Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), June 11-15, 1996

[Corey Goldman]

The following announcement is for the 18th annual ABLE 
workshop/conference (June 11-15, 1996).

* Please feel free to post this announcement (along with this header) to 
other newsgroups/lists.

* The entire conference program is available online at:
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb/able/able96.html

* For more information about ABLE visit our Web site:
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb/able/index.html

Corey Goldman
University of Toronto
ABLE President, 1995-97
corey.goldman at utoronto.ca


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The 18th ANNUAL WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE of the
Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE)

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts)

June 11-15, 1996
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At ABLE meetings, biologists present interesting and innovative 
laboratory exercises.  This year's meeting provides 20 hands-on 
workshops, each approximately 3 hours in duration, including 
participation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, field trips, and 
mini workshops.  Each conferee can participate in up to six major and 
some mini workshops, and will receive written materials for all major 
workshops.  Field trips, social events, and tours of local attractions 
are also planned.  (The titles of the 20 major workshops are given at end 
of this announcement.)

The Association for Biology Laboratory Education was founded in 1979 to 
promote information exchange among university and college educators 
actively concerned with teaching biology in a laboratory setting.

The focus of ABLE is to improve the undergraduate biology laboratory 
experience by promoting the development and dissemination of interesting, 
innovative, and reliable laboratory exercises.  Each workshop/conference 
brings together a group of selected presenters with about 155 
participants from university and college biology departments throughout 
the U.S. and Canada. The workshop presenters provide all of the essential 
information and experiences that the potential users of the laboratory 
would require in order to "take it home" and use the protocol in their 
own teaching programs.

The workshops from ABLE '96 will be published by ABLE in Volume 18 of 
Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching. Past proceedings volumes are 
available for $15 US each (tables of contents and author and subject 
indexes are available online from ABLE's Web home page).

Membership in ABLE, at $35 US per year, entitles you to receive one 
proceedings volume and the tri-annual newsletter, Labstracts, an index of 
the contents of all proceedings, and a reduced registration fee for the 
annual workshop/conference.

For membership information, and to purchase past proceedings volumes, 
contact: Nancy Rosenbaum (Membership Chair), Dept. of Biology, Yale 
University, P.O. Box 208104, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, (203) 432-3864, 
FAX: (203) 432-3854, nancy.rosenbaum at yale.edu

For more information about ABLE '96 contact: Dr. Elizabeth Godrick 
(Host), Dept. of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington St., Boston, MA 
02215-2406, godrick at bio.bu.edu,  FAX: (617) 353-6340

Titles of Major Workshops at ABLE '96:
(see online conference program for abstracts and presentation schedule)
- Herbivory and Anti-Herbivory 
- Phenotypic Variation in Plants
- Identification of T Lymphocytes 
- Cell Fractionation in Tetrahymena
- Preparation of Mammalian Germ Cells
- Olfaction and Chemical Communication
- Intertidal Environment of the Rocky Coast 
- Behavior and Ecology of Humpback Whales
- On-Board Ecosystem Study of Boston Harbor
- Pigment Granule Transport in Chromatophores
- DNA Fingerprinting with PCR and a Single Hair
- Avian Foraging and Niche Partitioning at a Feeder 
- Isolation of Myosin and Actin from Chicken Muscle
- Fish Acoustic and Electric Communication (at Woods Hole)
- Integrating Computer-Based Problem-Solving with Organisms 
- Purification of a Maltose Binding Protein from E. coli Periplasm
- Orientation of Marine Invertebrates to Odor Sources (at Woods Hole)
- Integrating Intro Bio & Chem Laboratories: Human Metabolism of Vitamin 
C
- Lighting Up: Analysis of Yeast RAS Genes Using a Chemiluminesent 
Southern Blot
- Measurement of Nitrogenase Activity by H2 Evolution from Nodulated 
Roots of Legumes 

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ABLE Online:

  Web home page:
    http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb/able/index.html

  ABLE '96 conference program and registration form:
    http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb/able/able96.html

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