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Epigenetics: Pedagogical Approaches for Student Understanding

Discuss how to approach and engage students around epigenetics

  • Higher Education
  • Webinar
  • Virtual
  • Cell Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology Majors
  • 60 Minutes
  • Live Webinar

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Epigenetics is an exciting yet challenging topic for students in majors biology and genetics courses.

In this faculty webinar, McGraw-Hill author and professor Rob Brooker, PhD, will share practical, classroom-ready approaches for supporting student understanding and engagement with epigenetics. Participants will explore common learning challenges, effective teaching strategies, and an adaptable active-learning activity published in CourseSource.

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  • Rob Brooker, PhD -

    Rob Brooker, PhD

    Rob Brooker is a professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development and the Department of Biology Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota. He received his BA in biology at Wittenberg University in 1978 and his PhD in genetics from Yale University in 1983. At Harvard, he conducted postdoctoral studies on lactose permease, which is the product of the lacY gene of the lac operon. At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Brooker teaches undergraduate courses in biology, genetics, and cell biology. In addition to many other publications, he has written two undergraduate genetics texts published by McGraw Hill: Genetics: Analysis & Principles, 8th edition, Concepts of Genetics, 4th edition, 2025 Release, and two undergraduate biology texts published by McGraw Hill: Biology, 6th edition, 2025 Release, and Understanding Biology, 4th edition, 2026 Release.