About

Jacob Adler is a faculty member at Purdue University with a background in biochemistry, having earned his B.S. in Biochemistry in 2004. He has been teaching biology-related courses at all levels for over 10 years, focusing on developing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) that involve students in authentic research processes early in their college careers. His work emphasizes answering questions that are unknown and relevant, leading to valuable student research publications and educational methodology publications. Adler's research interests include pedagogical developments aimed at promoting student learning, such as using alternative grading strategies. His Biology Education Research explores the long-term impacts of these educational strategies, student and instructor perceptions, and measuring students' sense of belonging and intrinsic motivation in science.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Biology
• Medicine
• Genetics
• Cancer research
• Multimedia
• Internal medicine
• World Wide Web
• Data science
• Medical education
• Cell biology
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry

Selected publications

• Fatty Acid Induction of Lipid Droplets in Cancer Cells

  CourseSource · 2023 · 2 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Cell biology
  • Chemistry
  • Biochemistry

  There is a growing need for the development and communication of cell culture-based laboratory activities specifically designed for undergraduate students. This multi-week laboratory activity allows students to take part in the planning, experimentation, data analysis, and communication of the results of their cell culture-based research project. The laboratory activity specifically uses fatty acid induction of lipid droplets in cancer HeLa cells followed by a novel live-cell staining protocol developed specifically to allow undergraduate students the opportunity to complete a cell culture-based fluorescence microscopy project. This laboratory activity incorporates multiple levels of assessment and allows students to explore the responses of HeLa cancer cells to their environment. <em>Primary Image:</em>&nbsp;Fatty Acids Induce Lipid Droplet Formation in Cancer Cells. Image of live-stained lipid droplets (green) in HeLa cells after incubation with oleic acid following the protocol described in this article. The HeLa cells were also live-co-stained for cell membranes (red) and nuclei (blue).

  DOI

• Effect of HER2 Expression on NUPL2 Protein in Cervical Cancer Cells

  2021

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Medicine
  • Biology

• Transitioning Cell Culture CURE Labs from Campus to Online: Novel Strategies for a Novel Time ^†

  Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education · 2021 · 2 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • World Wide Web

  Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) provide a way for students to gain research experience in a classroom setting. Few examples of cell culture CUREs or online CUREs exist in the literature. The Cell Biology Education Consortium (CBEC) provides a network and resources for instructors working to incorporate cell-culture based research into the classroom. In this article, we provide examples from six instructors from the CBEC network on how they structure their cell-culture CUREs and how they transitioned the labs to online in the spring semester of 2020. We intend for these examples to provide instructors with ideas for strategies to set up cell culture CUREs, how to change that design mid-term, and for creating online CUREs in the future.

  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Clark D. Wells

  11 shared

• Lauren R. Bringman

  Indiana University

  10 shared

• Brigitte Heller

  Princeton University

  7 shared

• William P. Ranahan

  6 shared

• Misook Oh

  4 shared

• Mark G. Goebl

  Indiana University School of Medicine

  4 shared

• Andy Hudmon

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  4 shared

• Hyun‐Suk Lim

  Yonsei University

  4 shared

Labs

• Adler LabPI

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