Kimberly Tanner
Born
Madison, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forSEPAL
Scientific career
FieldsBiology education, science education, cognitive psychology
InstitutionsSan Francisco State University
Doctoral advisorJon Levine
Websitewww.sfsusepal.org/about/about-sepal

Kimberly Tanner is an American biologist and professor at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in San Francisco, California. Tanner is an elected fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and the co-editor-in-chief for the journal CBE: Life Sciences Education.

Education and career

Tanner received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1991.[1] She received her Ph.D. in neuroscience at University of California, San Francisco in 1997.[1] Tanner was under the advisement of Jon Levine where she used a combination of molecular, biochemical, behavioral and electrophysiological techniques to evaluate mechanisms that underlie pain and analgesia in mouse models.[2][3] Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.[4] In 2004 she moved to San Francisco State University where, as of 2022 she is a professor of biology.[4]

Tanner is a founding member of the editorial board and, as of 2022, co-editor-in chief for CBE: Life Sciences Education.[5]

Research

Tanner's research focuses on biology and science education research, specifically on developing assessment tools to understand how people from K-12 to practicing scientists conceptualize science. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the structure and function of vincristine-induced neuropathy in mouse models.[6] Her subsequent research was on metacognition and how students learn biology and thinking like biologists,[7] teaching strategies in biology classrooms,[8] and barriers to change in biology education in the classroom.[9] She has also worked on DART, the Decibel Analysis Research in Teaching, a software tool that analyzes classroom sound.[10]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Kimberly Tanner | Department of Biology".
  2. ↑ Tanner, Kimberly D.; Reichling, David B.; Levine, Jon D. (1998-08-15). "Nociceptor Hyper-Responsiveness during Vincristine-Induced Painful Peripheral Neuropathy in the Rat". Journal of Neuroscience. 18 (16): 6480–6491. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-16-06480.1998. ISSN 0270-6474. PMC 6793188. PMID 9698336.
  3. ↑ Topp, Kimberly S.; Tanner, Kimberly D.; Levine, Jon D. (2000). "Damage to the cytoskeleton of large diameter sensory neurons and myelinated axons in vincristine-induced painful peripheral neuropathy in the rat". The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 424 (4): 563–576. doi:10.1002/1096-9861(20000904)424:4<563::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-U. PMID 10931481. S2CID 45561269.
  4. 1 2 "Kimberly Tanner | Baylor University". Baylor University. 2022-01-30. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  5. ↑ "CBE: Life Sciences Education". CBE: Life Sciences Education. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  6. ↑ Tanner, Kimberly D. (1997). Nociceptor structure and function during vincristine-induced neuropathy in rat (Thesis).
  7. ↑ Tanner, Kimberly D. (2012-06-01). "Promoting Student Metacognition". CBE: Life Sciences Education. 11 (2): 113–120. doi:10.1187/cbe.12-03-0033. PMC 3366894. PMID 22665584.
  8. ↑ Tanner, Kimberly D. (2013-09-01). "Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity". CBE: Life Sciences Education. 12 (3): 322–331. doi:10.1187/cbe.13-06-0115. PMC 3762997. PMID 24006379.
  9. ↑ Brownell, Sara E.; Tanner, Kimberly D. (2012-12-01). "Barriers to Faculty Pedagogical Change: Lack of Training, Time, Incentives, and…Tensions with Professional Identity?". CBE: Life Sciences Education. 11 (4): 339–346. doi:10.1187/cbe.12-09-0163. PMC 3516788. PMID 23222828.
  10. ↑ "SEPAL/CCLS DART". sepaldart.herokuapp.com. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
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