Teaching

In 2023-2024, I am teaching a MSc course on Data Science together with Dan McLean and Alison MacFadyen. The course covers statistics, data visualization, and intro to genomics and transcriptomics, and uses a combination of bootcamp-style practical lessons and flipped-classroom sessions.

During my masters and PhD, I worked as a graduate teaching assistant for several biology classes. At the University of Alberta, I taught labs for:

• BIOL108 Introduction to Biodiversity: a first-level class in biology, and
• BOT306 Biology of the Fungi: a senior undergrad-level class.

At the St. Petersburg University, I TAed a field course on fungi, lichens, and algae.

Carpentries

As of 2023, I am a certified instructor with The Carpentries, an organization dedicated to teaching data science and programming skills

Guest Lectures

I also have given a number of guest lectures, both at the University of Alberta, and elsewhere:

• 2021: Introduction to research in ecology and evolutionary biology (Stanford University)

• 2020:

  • Biology of the Fungi (UAlberta)

  • Introduction to Graph Theory (UAlberta) Watch on youtube

• 2019:

  • Biology of the Fungi (UAlberta)

  • Microbial Diversity and Evolution (UAlberta)

  • Experimental Biology (UAlberta)

Mentoring

• In 2023, I co-supervised Flurin Lauchli, a MSc student during a research internship in TSL.

• In 2020-2022, I co-supervising Samantha Pederson, an undergraduate researcher at the Spribille Lab. Samantha completed two term projects: on lichen inhabiting Tremella and on symbiont composition in Hypogymina lichens, and one summer internship.

A group of students of the field course somewhere on an island in the White Sea