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Teaching & Mentoring Philosophy
Teaching & Mentoring Philosophy
My aim as an instructor and mentor is to create a safe, inclusive environment where all students feel comfortable asking questions, challenging ideas, and exploring interests.
Courses Taught
Courses Taught
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2021 Guest Instructor Biology of Plant Pathogens | Graduate | Dept. of Entomology & Plant Pathology
2021 Guest Instructor Principles of Plant Pathology | Undergraduate and Graduate | Dept. of Entomology & Plant Pathology
The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
2020 Visiting Instructor Gateway to Cellular and Molecular Biology | Undergraduate | Dept. of Biology
The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH
2020 Teaching Assistant Genome Analytics | Graduate | Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science
2019 Teaching Assistant Genome Analytics | Graduate | Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science
2018 Guest Instructor Genome Analytics | Graduate l Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant (lead) General Biology II Laboratory | Undergraduate | Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant (lead) Principles of Genetics Laboratory | Undergraduate | Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant General Biology II Laboratory | Undergraduate | Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant Principles of Genetics Laboratory | Undergraduate | Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Courses in Preparation
Courses in Preparation
Skills in computational biology are often lacking in students in plant science fields at an undergraduate level. Bacterial systems provide an excellent system to introduce concepts related to computational biology including wet lab protocols, data analysis pipelines, and the importance of data availability and transparency.
In the Structuring Content Course as part of the NCSU Teaching and Communication Certification, I developed a syllabus for the course, Bacterial Bioinformatics. The focus of this course is to go from DNA isolation through to analysis, exposing students to each step in the pipeline of sequencing and analyzing a genome. To facilitate the student experience in this course, we will work in groups to sequence the genomes of select bacterial isolates and go through the process of analyzing those genomes. We will explore the importance of open science and data transparency by uploading our curated sequence data to a public repository. This course is an upper-level undergraduate and graduate course designed to provide students with an understanding of bacterial bioinformatics.
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