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We are a lab group with two foci, postsecondary biology education and plant ecology, with a focus on bryophytes.  Our Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) has included studies of the understanding of sexual selection and genetics.  Bryophyte ecology research is currently focused on community structure of propagule banks and plants at cave entrances.  

Key Research Areas

  • Postsecondary biology education
  • Teaching sexual selection, urban ecology and environmental justice
  • Bryophyte ecology and evolution 

Current Projects

  • Faculty participation in a DBER experience embedded in the neoliberal university
  • Department fit and adoption of evidence-based steaching practices for tenure-track and non-tenure-track instructors
  • Bryophyte communities at cave entrances
  • Endophytes in liverworts 

Recent Publications

  • Jackson, J.K., Fuselier, L. and Eason, P. 2024. Automated content analysis as a tool to compare content in sexual selection research with examples of sexual selection in evolutionary biology textbooks: implications for teaching the nature of science. Evolution: Education & Outreach. 17(3) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00198-w.
  • Spaulding, S.* and L. Fuselier. 2023. Images of non-human animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours. Animal Behaviour, 205:117-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.08.003
  • Weingartner, L.A., E. J. Noonan, A. Shaw and L Fuselier. 2023. Engaging pre-medical students in medical education research: benefits of clinical skills observation studies.  Academic Medicine. 1;98(11S):S157-S164.  doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005361.
  • Fuselier, L. and M. Carreiro.  2022.  Emergence and establishment of mosses and ferns from spore banks after exposure to glyphosate and two bioherbicides. The Bryologist 125(2): 352-361.
  • DeCaro, M. S., McClellan, D. K., Powe, A., Franco, D., Chastain, R. J., Hieb, J. L., & Fuselier, L. (2022). Exploring an online simulation before lecture improves undergraduate chemistry learning. In Chinn, C., Tan, E., Chan, C., & Kali, Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022 (pp. 1213-1216). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
  • Casper, A. M., R. A. Atadero, L. Fuselier.  2022.  Revealing the queer spectrum in STEM through robust demographic data collection in undergraduate engineering and computer science courses at four institutions. PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264267
  • Fuselier, L. and M. McCool*.  2022. Density-dependent rhizoidal tuber production in a non-native, male-biased population of Gemmabryum klinggraeffii (Schimper) J.R. Spence, H.P. Ramsay.  Journal of Bryology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2021.2008197.
  • Ray King, K*., L. Fuselier and H. Sirvisetty*.  2021.  LGBTQIA+ invisibility in nursing anatomy/physiology textbooks. Journal of Professional Nursing. 37:816-827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.06.004
  • Humrick, K.* and L. Fuselier.  2021. Content knowledge and Social Factors Influence Student Moral Reasoning About CRISPR/Cas9 in Humans.  Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 1:1-32  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.21679
  • Cooper, K., Anna Jo J. Auerbach, Jordan D. Bader, Amy S. Beadles-Bohling, Jacqueline A. Brashears5, Erica Cline, Sarah L. Eddy, Deanna B. Elliott, Elijah Farley, Linda Fuselier, Heather M. Heinz, Madison Irving, Tanya Josek, A. Kelly Lane, Stanley M. Lo, Jeffrey Maloy, Michelle Nugent, Erika Offerdahl, Juan Palacios-Moreno¬, Jorge Ramos, Joshua W. Reid, Rachel A. Sparks, Ashley L. Waring, Mike Wilton, Cara Gormally, Sara E. Brownell.  2020. Fourteen recommendations to create a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ individuals in academic biology.  CBE-Life Science Education 19(3):1-18. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-04-0062.
  • McFadden, J. and L. Fuselier.  2020.  Graduate teaching assistants:  sharing epistemic agency with non-science majors in the biology laboratory.  Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-020-00024-5
  • Carreiro, M., L. Fuselier and M. Waltman.  2020.  Efficacy and Non-Target Effects of Glyphosate and Organic Herbicides for Invasive Vine Control.  Natural Areas Journal, 40(2): 1-13. 

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Linda Fuselier

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Fuselier Lab

A&S Department of Biology

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Life Sciences Building Room 214 and 318

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