Teaching

Biology 1020 - Diversity of Life - Comparative examination of the major lineages of eukaryotic organisms from an evolutionary perspective. [Online course content is available on Moodle to students registered in the course].

Biology 3710 - Population Biology - Introduction to population biology, focusing on population genetics (covering genotype and allele frequencies, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, selection, and quantitative genetics) and population ecology (covering density-independent and -dependent population growth, population regulation, demography and life tables, life-history evolution, and species interactions). [Online course content is available on Moodle to students registered in the course].

Biology 3850 - Experimental Design and Analysis - Introduction to statistics and experimental design in the biological sciences. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, data visualization, experimental design, goodness-of-fit tests, contingency analysis, two-sample and multi-sample comparisons, correlation, and regression.  The course includes practical instruction using the statistics program R. [Online course content is available on Moodle to students registered in the course].

Biology 4710 - Evolutionary and Ecological Modeling - Introduction to analytical and simulation modeling in ecology and evolution.  This course is at least as much about learning to understand published models, and common techniques in modeling, as it is about the underlying biology. Topics will include: population growth, selection, models of disease, the evolution of cooperation, and the evolution of aging, among others.  The course is composed of complementary lectures and labs.  In the lectures we will discuss modeling techniques and previously published models.  The lab will typically involve a short period of instruction followed by hands-on practice building and analyzing simple biologically inspired models using Microsoft Excel and Matlab. [Online course content is available on Moodle to students registered in the course]

I also supervise Applied Studies (Biology 3890), Independent Studies (Biology 4990), Undergraduate Theses (Biology 3995), and graduate students