Professional Development

Office of Equal Opportunity: The Essentials Certificate – NCSU (Completed: 2025)

Reflective Education Design (RED) Universal Course Design Certification – NCSU (Completed: 2025)

Microbiology Teaching & Learning Community: Designing for Diverse Learners – American Society for Microbiology (Completed: 2024)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) BioInteractive Inclusive Teaching Certification (Completed: 2024)

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Learning Communities – POGIL (Completed: 2024)

Postdoctoral Readiness to Enter the Professorship Program – NCSU (Completed: 2024)

Reflective Education Design (RED) Core Teaching Certificate – NCSU (Completed: 2024)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Institute – NCSU (Completed: 2024)

Inclusive Excellence Certificate – NCSU Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity (OIED) (Completed: 2023)

The Postdoc Academy: Building Skills for a Successful Career – Boston University, edX (Completed: 2023)

Mental Health First Aid – NCSU Wolfpack Wellness (Completed: 2023)

Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (IPERT) Summer Workshop – NCSU (Completed: 2023 & 2024)

Design Adaptive or Personalized Learning Experiences for Students – NCSU Wired Wednesdays (Completed: 2023)

Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) Inclusive Teaching – NCSU WolfSNAPS (Completed: 2023)

Elevating Qualitative Research: Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World Workshop – NCSU (Completed: 2023)

Foundations of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – NCSU Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity (OIED) (Completed: 2023)

Fundamentals of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Virtual Workshop – POGIL (Completed: 2023)

Making the Most of the Trainee Experience – Office of Intramural Training & Education at NIH (Completed: 2023)

NC State Office for Faculty Excellence Mentoring Program Connection Beta Test – NCSU (Completed: 2023)

Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) Suicide Prevention Training – NCSU Wolfpack Wellness (Completed: 2023)

Protocols.io Workshop – NCSU (Completed: 2023)

Reaching All Learners (Online Course Design) – NCSU WolfSNAPS (Completed: 2023)

Universal Design for Learning: An Introduction – NCSU Wired Wednesdays (Completed: 2023)

CITI Program Trainings

• Conflicts of Interest (Completed: 2023)

• Responsible Conduct of Research (Completed: 2023)

• Human Subject Research (Completed: 2023)

• Social, Behavioral & Educational Research Good Clinical Practices (Completed: 2023)

Whole Genome Sequencing Typing in BioNumerics – Applied Maths, bioMérieux (Completed: 2022)

Integrative Symposium of NC State Training Grants – Raleigh, NC (Spring 2025, Spring 2026)

NC ASM 2025 – The North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology – Greensboro, NC, USA (November 1, 2025)

NC State Undergraduate Research & Creativity Summer Symposium – Raleigh, NC, USA (Spring '22, Spring '23, Summer '23, Spring '24, Summer '24)

NC ASM 2023 – The North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology – Durham, NC, USA (November 4, 2023)

NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence – Raleigh, NC, USA (March 9, 2023)

NC State Microbiology Graduate Student Association Symposium – Raleigh, NC, USA (November 14, 2022)

ASM Microbe 2022 – American Society for Microbiology – Washington, D.C., USA (June 9-13, 2022)

L.W. Parks Distinguished Lectureship in Microbiology – Virtual (March 28-29, 2022)

National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Research Symposium – Virtual (January 26, 2022)

L.W. Parks Distinguished Lectureship in Microbiology – Virtual (September 29, 2020)

ASM Microbe 2020 – American Society for Microbiology – Virtual (July 20-21, 2020)

International Symposium on Problems of Listeria and Listeriosis (ISOPOL) – Toronto, Canada (September 24-27, 2019)

NC ASM 2017 – The North Carolina Branch of the American Society for Microbiology – Raleigh, NC, USA (October 21, 2017)

American Society for Microbiology (ASM) (2019 - Present)

American Society for Microbiology – North Carolina Branch (NC ASM) (2017 - Present)

Educational Outreach Network (EON) – NCSU (2023 - Present)

Professional Association for Diving Instructors (PADI) Open Water Diver Certification (2011 - Present)