Jennifer Klenz

Associate Professor of Teaching

Academic History

  • B.S.A. University of Saskatchewan, Honours in Crop Science
  • Ph. D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • Postdoc University of British Columbia

Contact Information

  • jklenz@mail.ubc.ca
  • Office Phone: 604-822-0043
  • Lab Phone: 604-822-6285
  • Office: Room 4045 Biosciences
  • Lab Location: Room 2115 Biosciences

My Links

 Coral Resilience Lab and  Restore With Resilience Coral Lab  

Healthy Porites coral  photo by J. Klenz

Teaching Interests

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, -specifically related to Genetics

Climate change, Assisted Evolution of Coral Reefs

Courses Taught/Teaching

  • BIOL 180 (formerly BIOL 140) Thinking Like a Scientist
  • BIOL 234 Fundamentals of Genetics
  • BIOL 337 Introductory Genetics Lab

Community Work

Growing Chefs, a local initiative to teach children about growing, cooking and eating plants

Jennifer wearing plants used in cooking during lesson   AND    student’s aesthetic salad plate


Selected Publications

Klenz, J. (2021)A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Using Pictorial Expression Data in Bioinformatics Assignments. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education Publication of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education Volume 42, Article 33, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

Klenz, J.(FA)and Couch, B.  (2021) Teach it to Children: Placemat Posters. Volume 42, Article 63, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

Klenz, J.(FA, SA), Leander, C. and McDonnell, L. (2021) Alternative Assessments for Online Teaching That Are Bulletproof (Cheat-resistant) Advances in Biology Laboratory Education Publication of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education Volume 42, Article 45, (K. McMahon, Editor) Proceedings of the 42nd (virtual) Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ViABLE).

Klenz, J., M. Chow and T. Fontana. 2015. Are You a Hidden Heterozygote? Use of PCR to Genotype Brown vs. Blue- Eye-Color Alleles. Article 61 in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 36 (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-36/ v36reprint.php?ch=61 

McDonnell, L. and Klenz, J. 2015. Teaching Genetic Linkage and Recombination through Mapping with Molecular Markers. CourseSourcehttps://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2015.13