University teaching
Oberlin College and Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio (2022-2023)
Genetics, Evolution and Ecology lecture & lab (BIOL 200)
Mycology lecture and lab (BIOL 335), listed for Quantitative & Formal Reasoning attribute
Organismal Biology lab (BIOL 100)
Data / Software Carpentry Instructor, University of Oslo, Norway (2016) workshops
R for data analysis and visualization
Data Carpentry R for Genomics
University of Oslo, Norway (2015) volunteer-based workshop
Basic R workshop (introduction to R statistical package)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (2013)
The Nature of Ecology (SAIC-3557)
Mushrooms, Molds & Medicines (SAIC-3362)
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois (2010 – 2013)
[main campus & El Centro campus (academic center for the Latino community)]
Introduction to Biology (Biology 100)
The Changing Natural Environment (Biology 104)
General Biology (Biology 202)
Ecology (Biology 305)
General Mycology (Biology 334)
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (2010)
Mycology (Botany/Plant Pathology 332)
Invited teaching lectures
Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US, April 2022
Guest Zoom lecture, fitting an environmental science course: “The development of an environmental awareness alongside scientific inquiry.”
Oberlin College & Conservatory, Ohio, US, March 2022
Guest Zoom lecture, fitting a general biology course: “Thinking locally, living globally… er, wait… Thinking globally, living locally? Spatiotemporal scales in ecology.”
The New School, New York, New York, US, December 2021
Guest Zoom lecture, fitting the topic: “Gene-environment interactions; addressing molecular mechanisms and macro scale impact.”
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2020
Guest Zoom lecture, during a Landscape Architecture and Urban Design course: “Thinking like a mountain meadow”
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2020
Guest Zoom lecture, during a Root-soil-microbe interactions course: “Deciding on the analyses given the objective(s) and data; Method application to own research questions”
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, August 2020
Guest Zoom lecture, fitting the topic: “Working across biological scales to understand global change”
Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, US, August 2018
Guest lecture, during a general mycology course: “Fungal fruiting, the environment, and global change impacts”
Software Carpentry R and RStudio workshops, University of Oslo, Norway, May & June 2016
Guest lectures during workshops, “R for data analysis and visualization”
Data Carpentry R workshop for Biosciences/Genomics, University of Oslo, Norway, March 2016
Guest lecture during workshop, “Data wrangling and processing”
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan (2007)
Guest lecturer, during a Conservation and Restoration course
Pedagogic & supervisory training
Doctoral Supervision Course, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Autumn 2020)
Education for Sustainable Development, Workshop for Course Leaders, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Oct. 2020)
Teaching in Higher Education (Module 1), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Sept. 2020)
Teaching Active E-Learning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Sept. 2020)
Data & Software Carpentry Instructor Training (II), University of Oslo, Norway (Jun. 2016)
Data & Software Carpentry Instructor Training (I), ELIXIR UK, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (Nov. 2015)
Committee memberships, supervision & skills transference
Undergraduate research supervisor for Isabella Biggs, Oberlin college student, Fungal fruiting biodiversity compared between field and observational data platforms for the Oberlin, Ohio region (May 2023 – Aug. 2023)
Undergraduate research support (R, data analytics & mycorrhizal fungal ecology) for Sadie Seaman, Oberlin college student, Investigating the mycorrhizal associations of forest stand succession at Chance Creek, Ohio (Sept. 2022 – Aug. 2023)
Honors Defense Committee member for Brandon Denton, Oberlin college student, State of Decay: A Theory of Fungal Organizing (2022 – 2023 academic year).
Committee member (supervisor) for Fredrik Rustøen, Universitetet i Oslo, M.S. candidate, The effects of climate change on fungi’s substrate affinity and distribution (Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2016).
Committee member for Andrea Erber, Northeastern Illinois University, ‘Exploring the feasibility and time efficiency of mycoremediation of polluted waters: A study testing Chicago River water samples,’ M.S. (2013).
Multiple skills transferences (to peers, undergraduate, MS, and PhD students): fungal identification; molecular methodologies; mycorrhizal fungi; R; and statistical analyses.