Teaching assistant
9/2017 – 1/2018, New York University, Department of Chemistry, New York, NY.
Courses taught:
Molecular modeling (undergraduate course)
9/2004 – 8/2005, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Bioengineering, Chicago, Illinois.
9/2005 – 8/2007, National bioinformatics training certificate program - Bitmap, Chicago, Illinois
Courses taught:
a) Introduction to bioinformatics
Topics covered
Introduction -- bioinformatics topics and molecular biology, Introduction to Molecular Biology, Programming and databases in bioinformatics, Pairwise sequence alignment, Scoring matrix in sequence alignment, Multiple Sequence alignment, Statistical methods, Hidden Markov Models, HMM in sequence analysis, Statistics in sequence analysis, Database search, Micro-array analysis, Phylogenetic analysis, Gene Identification, Whole Genome Analysis, Genomic circuits, Protein structure and prediction, Protein secondary structure prediction and homology modeling, Protein folding and ab initio structure prediction, Drug Design/Discovery and Docking, RNA Secondary Structure Prediction
b) Molecular modeling (graduate-level course)
Topics covered
Molecular Mechanical Force Field, Statistical Potentials, Conformational Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulations, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Structure Modeling, Protein Interactions, Free energy calculation, Drug design, Special topics