TEACHING & MENTORING

TEACHING

Courses - University of California, Santa Barbara

Instructor, MCDB 92 - Research for Undergraduates: Molecular Biology Laboratory Experience (RUMBLE, Fall 2018)

Instructor, MCDB 161L - Bioinformatics Module (Summer 2018)

Instructor, EEMB 101 - Molecular Evolution (Fall 2015)

Courses - Harvard University (2005-2009)

Teaching Fellow, OEB 192 - Microbial Evolution

Teaching Fellow, OEB 53 - Evolutionary Biology

Head Teaching Fellow, Science B 57 - Dinosaurs and their relatives*

Teaching Fellow, OEB 10 - Foundations of Biological Diversity

Teaching Fellow, Science B 57 - Dinosaurs and their relatives*

Teaching Fellow, BS 50 – Genetics and Genomics

*recipient of Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Guest Lectures

UC Santa Barbara - EEMB127, Plant Biology and Biodiversity

UC Santa Barbara - EEMB3, Introductory Biology III

Westmont College - Evolution

MENTORING

UC Santa Barbara

Fall 2012-present

Mentor to undergraduates Mark Simon, Jonathan Wechter, Daniel Lehnert, Devon Birdseye, Mena Moussa, Constantine Gasseholm, Timothy Ngo, Justin Pretorius, Alex Primo, and Jasen Liu to carry out a variety laboratory, greenhouse, and field experiments

University of Georgia

Spring 2011-present

Mentor to graduate student, Jennafer Hamlin, in the development of markers for phylogeographic analyses of Louisiana Irises

Fall 2010-Spring 2012

Taught and supervised two undergraduates, Babajide Aderinwale and Joshua Foley, conducting both laboratory and field research through NSF REU grants

Harvard University

Summer 2007

Taught and supervised a Harvard University undergraduate, Elena Butler, conducting summer research in the Kramer Lab

** more pics of mentoring in the field in PHOTOS**

Getting out and about at the UCSB Lagoon restoration site with Fall 2018 RUMBLERs!

MCDB161L students Kailey and Jorge show off their hard work

UCSB undergraduate Daniel Lehnert (Class of 2014) checking out a tall and toxic Aquilegia relative, Aconitum, in the field

UCSB undergraduate Justin Pretorius (Class of 2017) showing off our POP targeted VIGS transformed plants

UCSB undergraduate Devon Birdseye (Class of 2014) casts a sly smile as she works on a gene sequence alignment

UCSB undergraduate Alex Primo (Class of 2018) sets up primo PCR reactions