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Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
Guest Lectures:
Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Manuscript Writing Tips and Tricks’ to ~30 undergraduate/graduate students, Sept 2024
Delivered two lectures on ‘Insect Anatomy: External and Internal’ to ~50 undergraduate students in an entomology course (~50 students). Oct 2022
Teaching Assistant (*Received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award)
ENT 3011: Insect Biology and Diversity Laboratory, Clemson University (Fall 2022)
Teaching assistant for undergraduate sections. Responsibilities included lab preparation, assisting in lab/field experiments and activities, interacting with students and responding to their course-related questions, preparing and grading exams and assignments and grading arthropod collections.
*Biology 4415: Entomology Laboratory, UTRGV (Spring 2020)
(offline and then shifted to online due to COVID)
Lead instructor for undergraduate sections. Responsibilities included preparing and delivering weekly lectures followed by laboratory activities, including cockroach dissection, insect collection techniques, lab experiments etc., preparing and grading course assignments and exams, grading arthropod collections and responding to students' course-related questions.
*Biology 1406: General Biology Laboratory, UTRGV (Fall 2019*, Spring 2022, Summer 2020)
Lead instructor for undergraduate sections. Responsibilities included preparing and delivering weekly lectures followed by laboratory activities (pH analysis, cell structure and division, photosynthesis etc.), preparing and grading course assignments and exams.
Student Comments from Entomology Course Evaluations:
“Mandeep was an incredible help to me during the lab periods and lectures. Mandeep would regularly assist me in the lab by clarifying instructions, and his lectures were fantastic after he got the hang of things.”
“Mandeep, our T.A., was also very helpful in both the lab and lecture settings.”
“Superb job, Dr. Ferro, Mandeep, Niko, and others. I have never been interested in entomology before, and I am now considering starting my own personal collection.”
Mentorship Experience (Mentee’s current position)
Mentorship Experience (Mentee’s current position)
Through the Entomological Society of America (ESA)’s “EntoMentos” program, I currently mentor three Ph.D. students: Jyoti Sharma (Louisiana State University), Pragya Kiju (Clemson University) and Pragya Gupta (Texas A&M University), providing guidance on navigating graduate school and exploring future career opportunities. (July 2025-Present)
Summer 2025
Emily Ogburn (Research Associate, NCSU)
Summer 2023-Spring 2024
Zoe Marquez de la Plata (pursuing BS in PES at Clemson University),
Darby Blanton (Mold Analyst, Eurofins Environment Testing, USA)
Spring 2023
Nina Swift (Regulatory Specialist at Clemson Department of Industry),
Olivia Russo (Currently applying for Dental School)
Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Alex Ratay (now M.S. graduate in PES at Clemson University)
Spring 2022
Boone Jones (pursuing MS in Microbiology at Montana State University)
Jordan Stortz (pursuing MS in Biochemistry at Clemson University)
Madeline Martin
Emily Poteat
Summer 2020
Ellisah Famador
Bianca Jimenez
Summer 2019
Isabella Rodriguez (Selected for UTRGV MD Early Assurance Program)
Priscilla Trujillo, Leilani Martinez
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