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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:

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Jessica Rogge

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

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Angie Nicolás

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

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Hayden Hedman

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

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Meredith Swartwout

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

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Lea Sarment

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

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Janelle Peña and Roberto Reyes

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

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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.

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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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