Teaching and Mentorship

My teaching philosophy is built on active learning, inclusivity, and mentorship. I aim to inspire curiosity, foster collaboration, and create a respectful classroom and laboratory where students feel valued, respected, and empowered to share their perspectives. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor 

• General Biology Lab, Department of Biological Science, University of Ulsan, South Korea. 03/2017–06/2017

• Workshop Instructor, Annual Global UOU Workshop, University of Ulsan, South Korea. 2015–2017, 2019

Guest Lecturer

• Phylogenetic Analysis, Graduate School at the Department of Biological Science, University of Ulsan, South Korea,  04/2020.

• Reconstruction and Understanding Phylogenetic Trees, Global UOU Workshop, University of Ulsan, South Korea, 01/2019.

• Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution, Graduate School at the Department of Biological Science, University of Ulsan, South Korea, 11/2018.

Teaching assistant

• Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, South Korea (2011-2014).

MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE

Purdue University, USA (3 Undergraduate students)

• Mentorship in microscopy, media preparation, and growth curve experiments  

• Image analysis using ImageJ; growth curve data analysis using software and Excel

• Planning and carrying out an independent research project.

Smith College, USA (1 Ph.D. student, 3 Undergraduate students)

• Mentorship in fieldwork and sample collection; sample preparation for whole-genome amplification (WGA) and transcriptome amplification (WTA)

• Linux commands; NGS data analysis on servers; phylogenetic software tools; running pipelines;

• Planning and carrying out independent research projects; manuscript writing and publication

University of Ulsan, South Korea (1 Ph.D. student, 4 M.Sc. students, more than 10 Undergraduate students)

• Mentorship in fieldwork and sample collection; microscopy

• PCR; PCR primer designing; sequencing library preparation for scRNA-seq

• Sequence data processing and phylogenetic tree construction using software

• Planning and carrying out an independent research project

• Manuscript and thesis writing, and publications.

PUBLICATIONS WITH STUDENTS

1. Timmons, C., Shazib, S. U. A., & Katz, L. (2022). Epigenetic influences of mobile genetic elements on ciliate genome architecture and evolution. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.  (weblink)

2. Kabir, A. S., Kumar, S., Bharti, D., Shazib, S. U. A., & Shin, M. K. (2020). Redescription of Rigidohymena inquieta (Stokes, 1887) Berger, 2011 as Metahymena inquieta gen. nov., comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) Based on Morphology, Morphogenesis, and Molecular Phylogeny. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, (Accepted). (weblink)

3. Taher, M. A., Kabir, A. S., Shazib, S. U. A., Kim, M. S., & Shin, M. K. (2020). Morphological Redescriptions and Molecular Phylogeny of Three Stentor Species (Ciliophora: Heterotrichea: Stentoridae) from Korea. Zootaxa, 4732(3), 435-452. (weblink)