Teaching philosophy
I have been involved in teaching most of my life. In high school and university, I worked during the summer time as a tutor of various topics. Even in my extra-curricular activities in university, I took on a teaching role as a public speaker for youth groups. Teaching in graduate school was one of the parts of my academic work that I enjoyed the most. Each one of these educational settings has showed me that I am an effective teacher and have a passion for continually expanding my teaching toolkit. My teaching abilities and interests can be summarized into three main areas: 1) Increasing student success through active learning, 2) Mentoring a balance between appropriate training and independence, and 3) Pursuit of teaching excellence.
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HISTORY OF MENTORSHIP OF TRAINEES
Training of graduate students:
Collaboration with Singh lab at McMaster University 2008-2009.
Project 1: Cellular basis of sex comb evolution
PhD Student: Abha Ahuja
Achievement: I trained a PhD student, culminating in a PNAS publication and forthcoming manuscript.
Mentoring undergraduate students: Research Opportunity Program 2010-2012
Project 1: Cell dynamics involved in the rotation of Drosophila melanogaster sex comb artificially selected for a low number of bristles
Student: Gabilan Sivapatham
Achievement: PNAS publication; Gabilan is currently at University of Saskatchewan Medical School
Project 2: Cell dynamics involved in the rotation of Drosophila melanogaster sex comb artificially selected for a high number of bristles
Student: Julian Hung
Achievement: PNAS publication; Julian is currently at University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management
Project 3: Cell dynamics involved in the leg development of the Drosophila melanogaster female
Student: Marina Wang
Achievement: JULS publication; Marina is currently at University of McMaster Medical School
Project 4: Phenotypic analysis of various mutations perturbing sex comb development
Student: Jiwon Lee
Achievement: PNAS and JULS publication; Jiwon is currently at University of Michigan Medical School
Project 5: Effect of perturbing sex determination genes in Drosophila melanogaster sex comb rotation
Student: Sheng Cheng
Achievement: Sheng is currently at the University of Western Ontario in the Biology PhD program
Project 6: RNAi Genetic Screening for genes perturbing Drosophila melanogaster sex comb development
Student: Fei Zhonghui
Achievement: Fei went to graduate school at the University of Toronto and is currently at York University Osgoode Hall Law School
Project 7: Cell dynamics of proximal region of the 1st tarsal segments in Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Luna He
Achievement: Luna is currently at the Loyola University in Chicago Law school
Project 8: Cell extrusion involved in sex comb rotation of Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Helen Tan
Achievement: Helen is currently at New York Medical College program in Physical Therapy
Project 9: Evolution of allometric changes in fruit fly forelegs
Student: Waleed Khan
Achievement: Acta Biol. Col. paper
Project 10: Changes in apical area and shape involved in sex comb rotation of Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Yongli Long
Achievement: JULS paper
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