Teaching Experience
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Evolutionary Biology, Writing in the Majors
- Spring & Fall 2006, BioEE 278, Department of Biology, Cornell University
- Designed and instructed reading and writing intensive sections of Evolutionary Biology.
- Please email me for example materials: Syllabus F2006 | Schedule F2006
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Teaching Assistant, Herpetology
- Fall 2005, Department of Biology, Cornell University
- Development of a laboratory manual for Herpetology integrating digital information with specimen identification
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Teaching Assistant, Herpetology
- Spring 2005, BioEE 470/472, Department of Biology, Cornell University
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Teaching Assistant, Field Ecology
- Fall 2004, BioEE 263, Department of Biology, Cornell University
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Co-instructor, African Field Biology
- Winter 2002, St. Mary's Colleget, California
- Field biology research course in Kenya for undergraduates.
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Teaching Assistant, Evolutionary Biology
- Fall 2001, BioEE 278, Department of Biology, Cornell University
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Teaching Assistant, Evolution for non-majors
- Fall 2000, BioG 207, Cornell University
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Undergraduate Student Instructor, Introductory Biology
- 1998-1999, Bio 1B, University of California, Berkeley
- Aided with sections of Introductory Biology focused on independent, field based research
Mentoring
| Caroline Johnson is a senior at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has been working in the Yoder Lab since the summer of 2008. She is currently characterizing levels of variation across MHC loci in mouse lemurs. |
| Danielle Black is a sophomore at Duke and first started in the Yoder Lab as a Howard Hughes Research Fellow studying speciation in mouse lemurs. She is continuing to work on different aspects of mouse lemur evolution and genetics in the lab. |
| Megan Morikawa started in the Yoder Lab in the spring of 2009 as a Duke freshman. This semester she is conducting an independent research project on lizard phylogeography. |
| Dean Choi graduated in the spring of 2009. His honors thesis focused on the comparative phylogeography of several Malagasy lizards and is currently in preparation for submission for publication. |
| Mariana Last finished her MS at BYU with Leigh Johnson. I worked with her while she was a Master's student both in the field, collecting populations of Cycladenia in Utah and California, as well as in the lab developing anonymous nuclear loci for this taxon. |
| Robin Greene helped me with fieldwork in Arizona and New Mexico for two summers as a high school student. She's now at the University of Victoria studying biology and Ultimate Frisbee (among other things). |
| Amanda Talaba was a Cornell University undergrad who helped me in the field in 2003 and was an undergrad TA for Herpetology. Amanda has a tireless enthusiasm for herps. |
| Karlyn Beer was a Cornell undergrad who worked with me on the optimization and screening of Sceloporus arenicolus microsatellite loci. |