Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Effectiveness of Supplemental Instruction (SI) programs for non-majors science classes

Methods for improving instruction in large non-majors science classes

Gender and success in science

Professional Patents

"Gene probe to detect clinical vs. environmental strains of Vibrio vulnificus" (Assignment ID no. COAS-BIO-AA-2004-073) (2004)

Recent Publications

Baird, C.A., DeBrew, J.K., Warner, J.M. and Ayers, D.F. (2005). Academic dishonesty: practical, ethical, and legal considerations. Submitted to The American Journal of Education.

Høi, L., A. Dalsgaard, J.L. Larsen, J.M. Warner, and J.D. Oliver. 1997. Comparison of ribotyping and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR for characterization of Vibrio vulnificus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:1674-1678.

Warner, J.M. and J.D. Oliver. 1999. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio vulnificus and other Vibrio species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:1141-1144.

Warner, J.M. and J.D. Oliver. 1998. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of starved and viable but nonculturable (VBNC) cells of Vibrio vulnificus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:3025-3028.

Educational Background

B.S. Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994

M.S. Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1997

Post Master's Certificate in College Teaching and Adult Learning, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005

PhD Candidate, Curriculum and Instruction (Concentration in Higher Education/Science Education), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, (expected 2007)