Teaching
BMEB Bootcamp for 1st year graduate students
I was an instructor for the BMEB Bootcamp, a two-week orientation for incoming PhD and Masters students led by the T32 Genome Sciences Fellows in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics at UC Santa Cruz. I led students in hands-on genome sequencing and assembly tutorials, and prepared a genome announcement manuscript with all trainees as co-authors. See my poster presented at the 2026 NHGRI Training Conference for more details on the training program and outcomes.
Genomes and Plant Health Workshop
I was an instructor for the Genomes and Plant Health Workshop, hosted by Ksenia Krasileva’s Lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. I taught undergraduate and high school students a section of the workshop on genomics and computational biology, and developed a Google Colab tutorial to teach transposable element (TE) annotation.</p>