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2025
Teaching Assistant for Perception: Human, Animal, and Machine
Professor: Robert Sekuler, PhD
- Examines the human senses, emphasizing sight and hearing, studied from the standpoints of anatomy, physiology, and psychophysics. Includes insights from special observers, including developmentally immature humans, members of nonhuman species, and people with abnormal sensory systems.
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2023 / 2024
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Behavioral Psychology
Professor: Donald Katz, PhD, invited to give a lecture on Somatosensation & Nociception
- A survey of contemporary psychology. Topics include brain and behavior, perception, memory, learning, cognitive processes, plasticity, intelligence, child and adult development, personality, social behavior, and the relationship between normal and abnormal behavior.
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2022
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Psychology
Professor: James Howard, PhD, invited to give a lecture on Multisensory Integration
- A survey of contemporary psychology. Topics include brain and behavior, perception, memory, learning, cognitive processes, plasticity, intelligence, child and adult development, personality, social behavior, and the relationship between normal and abnormal behavior.
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor: Teresa Mitchell, PhD, invited to give a lecture on Chemosensory Systems
- This course explores how the human brain makes the human mind. It covers neural and behavioral dimensions of attention, memory and learning, perception, motor control, plasticity, and planning. Experimental approaches and neuroimaging are emphasized.
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2021
Teaching Assistant for General Biology Laboratory
Professor: Melissa Kosinski-Collins, PhD
- Provides firsthand experience with modern molecular biology techniques and illustrates basic approaches to experimental design and problem solving in molecular and cellular biology, including applications of biochemical techniques.
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2020
Teaching Assistant for Fruit Fly Neurogenetics Laboratory
Professor: Sarah Clark, PhD
- Course exploring genetic approaches to better understand fruit fly larva nociceptive behavior
Teaching Assistant for Crustacean Neuroscience Laboratory
Professor: Manfred Schmidt, PhD
- Research techniques in neuroscience, including behavioral analysis, extracellular electrophysiology, molecular and cellular neuroscience, fluorescence microscopy, neuroanatomy, immunocytochemistry, and neuroethology.