Teaching and Mentoring
Guest Lecturer:
E&EB 225 Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
MBIO 4853 Microbial Physiology, University of Oklahoma
Assistant in Instruction:
GEO 417 Environmental Microbiology, Princeton University
GEO 418 Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry, Princeton University
Class descriptions could be found here: www.princeton.edu/geosciences/courses/
Postdoc/Graduate mentor:
2023 Princeton GradFuture, Mentor
2021-2022 Senior Thesis, Yale University. Undergraduate mentee: Jackie Folmar. Project: Investigating the Effect of Temperature on Bacterial Community Assembly.
2020 Fall Junior Project, Princeton University. Undergraduate mentee: Samuel Cryan. Project: Depth Distribution of the Global SAR11 Population.
2020 Fall Princeton Rematch Program, Mentor
What is Rematch: click here.
2019-2020 Senior Thesis, Princeton University. Undergraduate mentee: Elizabeth Wallace. Project: Retention and loss of fixed nitrogen in a Pacific oxygen minimum zone.
2018 Fall Junior Project, Princeton University. Undergraduate mentee: Elizabeth Wallace. Project: Nitrite and Nitrate Concentrations and Nitrite Oxidation Rate in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone.
2018-2019 Senior Thesis, Princeton University. Undergraduate mentee: Katherine L. DuRussel. Project: Estimating Rates of Anaerobic Nitrite Oxidation in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone Through Incubation Experiments.
Elizabeth Wallace
Elizabeth making vanadium solutions to measure nitrite and nitrate concentrations in seawaters.
Katie DuRussel
Katie using denitrifier method to determine nitrite oxidation rates in the ocean.
Sam Cryan
Sam exploring the distribution of SAR11 in metagenomes from multiple marine regions. image from www.kissclipart.com
Jackie Folmar
Jackie measuring growth curves of microbes adapted to different temperatures and carbon sources.