Associate Professor of Teaching
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
- jklenz@mail.ubc.ca
- Office Phone: 604-822-0043
- Lab Phone: 604-822-6285
- Office: Room 4045 Biosciences
- Lab Location: Room 2115 Biosciences
My Links
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 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).
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. CourseSource. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2015.13