PhD Level Scientist Cell, Molecular, General Biology

Marie E M.

I am a Ph.D. level neurobiologist with expertise in general biology, cell and molecular biology, physiology and neuroscience. I received my Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2019. The focus of my research and scientific interest is on the epigenetic regulation of brain development and behavior. Prior to graduate school I work as a lab manager and instructor for the Brain and Cognitive Science department at MIT, focusing on teaching wet lab techniques in systems physiology and cell and molecular biology teaching more that 300 students. In addition to techniques, I critical concepts behind the techniques, maintaining proper laboratory notebooks, how to read and evaluate scientific literature and how to write effective laboratory reports.

My teaching approach is fostering critical thinking skills. I want students to learn to think like a scientist, to ask questions that lead them to know the why as well as the facts. Technical writing is also a passion of mine. I have written and edited scientific papers extensively, and I can teach students the art of writing a strong lab report, paper or thesis. My lessons will focus on high school and college students as well as adults.

Outside of formal teaching I worked as a lab manager in a cellular and molecular neuroscience lab focusing on projects related to song bird vocal communication and its parallels to human speech. In this position, I transferred my teaching experience to students working in the lab. Since graduate school, I have worked in the pharmaceutical industry taking my knowledge and working on experiments relating to drug mechanisms of action in various types of cancer. Here I have taught interns how to conduct proper experiments, how to design experiments to answer biological questions and how to evaluate scientific literature.