Jennifer Osterhage | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Jennifer Osterhage

Associate Professor

Contact Information

jennifer.osterhage@uky.edu

115B T.H Morgan Building

(859) 257-9322

Research Interests

Metacognition
Motivation

Affiliations

Biology
Biology Education

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Biology Learning and Motivation Lab

Research

I am interested in understanding and promoting evidence-based strategies to help students succeed in introductory biology. I am also intersted in understanding the motivational profiles of students in introductory biology courses.

Graduate Training

As a graduate student, I studied the molecular mechanisms that maintain telomeres (the protein-DNA complexes at the ends of linear chromosomes) in the lab of Dr. Katherine Friedman. I used the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae to investigate the cell-cycle regulation of telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres. I also participated in the Teaching Certificate Program offered through Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching. I completed courses in pedagogy and gained experience teaching and performing education research. In 2007, I graduated from the program with a Graduate Teaching Certificate.

Teaching

I have taught BIO 148 (Introductory Biology I) to over 5000 students. I truly enjoy being in the classroom and having the opportunity to share my love of biology with students. I use an active learning approach which involves demonstrations, activities, and interactive questioning during class. I'm dedicated to first-year student success and helping students successfully transition to college.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Osterhage, Jennifer. (2021). Persistent Miscalibration for High and Low Achievers Despite Practice Test Feedback in an Introductory Biology Course. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 22(2). https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00139-21

Osterhage, Jennifer L, Ellen L. Usher, Trisha A. Douin, and William M. Bailey. (2019). Opportunities for Self-evaluation Increase Student Calibration in an Introductory Biology Course. CBE: Life Sciences

Education. 18 (2). Article 16

Osterhage, Jennifer (2018). "Ten First Years," Greater Faculties: A Review of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 2, Article 2.

Osterhage, Jennifer, and Katherine L. Friedman. Chromosome End Maintenance by Telomerase. J Biol Chem. 284(24):16061-5 (2009).

Osterhage, Jennifer, Jennell Talley, and Katherine L. Friedman. Proteasome-dependent degradation of Est1p regulates the cell cycle-restricted assembly of telomerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 13(8), 720-728 (2006).

Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Jennifer Osterhage, Daryl R. Karns, John C. Murphy, and Harold K. Voris. Phylogeography of the Mekong mud snake (Enhydris subtaeniata): the biogeographic importance of dynamic river drainages and fluctuating sea levels for semi-aquatic taxa in Indo-China. Ecology and Evolution 1(3), 330-42 (2011).

Karns, Daryl R., Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Jennifer Osterhage, John Murphy, and Harold Voris. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Enhydris clade (Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Zootaxa 2452, 18-30. ISSN 1175-5334 (2010).