I am an Assistant Professor of plant biology and agronomy at a university in the central United States, where my research focuses on plant genetics, weed science, statistical modeling of biological data, and how plants respond to stress. I earned my PhD in plant science and completed postdoctoral training in plant genomics, molecular biology, and stress physiology. My day to day work involves designing experiments, analyzing data in R, and mentoring graduate students through the same...
I am an Assistant Professor of plant biology and agronomy at a university in the central United States, where my research focuses on plant genetics, weed science, statistical modeling of biological data, and how plants respond to stress. I earned my PhD in plant science and completed postdoctoral training in plant genomics, molecular biology, and stress physiology. My day to day work involves designing experiments, analyzing data in R, and mentoring graduate students through the same statistical methods and biology concepts that appear in college and AP coursework. I am also a fluent French speaker, having grown up and completed part of my education in Paris, France, and French has remained a working language throughout my academic career.
I have been teaching in some form since 2008, which spans nearly two decades of work with students ranging from middle school through graduate level. This has included full classroom courses, laboratory instruction, one-on-one research mentoring, and tutoring of friends, family, and colleagues' children preparing for AP exams, college coursework, and language learning. My teaching philosophy centers on six ideas I return to with every student: care, choice, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication. In practice that means meeting each student where they actually are, finding out what is genuinely confusing rather than assuming, and building from solid foundations.
For Biology and Genetics, I help students at the high school, AP, and undergraduate levels work through Mendelian and molecular genetics, gene expression, evolution, ecology, and exam preparation. For Biostatistics and R, I work with undergraduate and graduate students on study design, hypothesis testing, regression and mixed models, ANOVA, and data visualization, often using their own coursework or thesis data as the working material. For French, I support beginning through advanced learners on grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, conversation, and AP French exam preparation.
