Dr. Susan Bower & Pat Mote

Dr. Bower has been teaching biology in Southern California since 1987. After completing a B.S. in Biology at UCLA, she spent two years working at the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point as a naturalist and instructor. Dr. Bower returned to graduate study in Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, where she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. Her research focused on the assessment of particulate composition in marine ecosystems. Specifically, using the optical characteristics of the particles, she was successful in partitioning the phytoplankton community into taxonomic groupings. Dr. Bower's diverse teaching experiences have included general biology, marine biology, microbiology, and molecular biology. She first served as a reader for the College Board's AP* Biology Exam in 1998, and co-founded the Southern California AP* Summer Institute in 1999. Dr. Bower is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Natural Sciences at Pasadena City College.

Pat Mote has taught biology at the high school level for 34 years and at the college level for 16 years. She served as science department chair at the high school level for 15 of these years. She has taught AP* Biology for 20 years and has conducted one-day workshops and summer institutes in AP* Biology at the University of Georgia, Oglethorpe University, and Stanford University for the past 16 years. She also teaches an AP* Biology Summer Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a BS degree in Microbiology, a MS degree in Genetics, and a MEd. in Science Education from the University of Georgia. She has been involved with the AP* reading to grade the AP* Biology exams since 1992 serving as reader, table leader, and question leader. She has also written questions for the AP* exam. During her career she has been named Teacher of the Year several times including being named Teacher of the Year for her school district in 1987. In 1995 she was the Georgia Biology Teacher of the Year and a Tandy Technology Scholar. In 2003 she received the Siemens Award in Biology for her work with minority students in the AP* program at her school. She has also written and edited various teacher guides for anatomy and physiology textbooks. She has recently had several items published in the College Board's Materials for Professional Workshops. She serves as an editor for articles for The American Biology Teacher and helped edit the current edition of the AP* Biology Lab Manual published by the College Board. Other publications include articles for several microbiology journals from research conducted at the Centers for Disease Control.

She currently resides in Atlanta and is a teacher and tennis coach at Chamblee Charter High School. At night and in the summers she is an adjunct instructor at Georgia Perimeter Community College and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her outside interests include tennis and running.

• Registration
• College Board introductions
• Packet review
• Themes and Concepts in AP* Biology Program
• Planning an AP* Calendar
• 2008 Exam Review
• Grading the Free Response Questions
• Lunch Reception
• AP* LAB #3 MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS
  Post Lab #3 Discussion
• AP* LAB #8 POPULATION GENETICS
  Post Lab #8 Discussion

• Coffee and Refreshments
• AP* LAB #1 DIFFUSION AND OSMOSIS
  Post Lab #1 Discussion
• AP* LAB #6A TRANSFORMATION
• Lunch
• AP* LAB #6B ELECTROPHORESIS
• AP* LAB #2 ENZYMES
  Post Lab #2 Discussion

• Coffee and Refreshments
• AP* LAB #4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS
  Post Lab #4 Discussion
• Post Lab #6 Discussion
• Lunch
• AP* LAB #5 RESPIRATION
  Post Lab #5 Discussion
• AP* LAB #9 TRANSPIRATION
  Post Lab #9 Discussion

• Coffee and Refreshments
• Cal Ed Optical
• AP* LAB #7 GENETICS
• Lunch
• AP* LAB #12 DISSOLVED OXYGEN
• Post Lab #12 Discussion
• AP* LAB #11 BEHAVIOR
  Aquatic
  Terrestrial
• Post Lab #11 Discussion

• Coffee and Refreshments
• AP* LAB #7 GENETICS
• AP* LAB #11 BEHAVIOR
  Aquatic
  Terrestrial
• Post Lab #11 Discussion
• AP* LAB #10 CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS
• Post Lab #10 Discussion
• Wards Presentation
• Closing
  Graduation Certificates