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  teaching & mentoring

Teaching and mentoring students is all about sharing my passion for biology.
Courses taught at Vassar College
  • BIOL 106 Introduction to Biological Investigation

  • BIOL 379 Today’s News in Biology

Courses taught at Boston University
  • BIOL 108 Biology II (lab)

  • BIOL 303 Evolutionary Ecology (lab)

Independent Research

Working in a research lab during my undergraduate and post graduate years was such a formative and confidence-building experience for me, it has cemented in my mind the value of providing research opportunities at the undergraduate level. Below is a small sampling of the many projects that I've worked on with undergraduates:

Jessica Rogge

Escape-hatching responses of individual treefrog embryos vary with threat level in wasp attacks: a mechanistic analysis

Angie Nicolás

Wasp predation drives the assembly of fungal and fly communities on frog egg masses

Hayden Hedman

Body size, humeral spine size, and aggressive interactions in the Emerald Glass Frog, Espadarana prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae) in Costa Rica

Meredith Swartwout

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Virginia amphibians: within and among pond variation in infection

Lea Sarment

Parasites and microbes: Interannual variation in the symbiotic communities of spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer)

Janelle Peña and Roberto Reyes

Skin bacterial microbiome of a generalist Puerto Rican frog varies along elevational and land use gradients

Janelle and Roberto are all smiles after presenting their poster about our research on Eleutherodactylus coqui.

Meredith and I swabbing spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) in Virginia.

Field Courses & Internships

Field courses and internships are a great way for undergraduates and graduate students to increase their understanding of biological concepts, be exposed to new and different cultures, and gain hands-on research experience.

The following is a list of field courses and internship programs that I have been involved in. For more information about current opportunities, please visit each organization’s website.

At the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute:
  • Introducción a las Ciencias Biológicas de Campo

  • Research Experience in the Tropics

At the Organization for Tropical Studies:
  • Native American and Pacific Islander Research Experience

2011 OTS NAPIRE course.

Courses taught at Marist College
  • BIOL 130 General Biology I

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