Outreach and Education

World Ocean Day

June 7th, 2024

I had a great time introducing Natural History museum visitors to Convolutriloba and their internal garden of Tetraselmis algae. We used dinoscopes (small handheld light microscopes) to take a look at the worms swimming and laying flat in the dish to let their algae absorb the light from a flashlight. (Photos by Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution)

Rutgers Data Carpentries Genomics Workshop

April 25-26th 2024

I had an amazing time teaching the Genomics Carpentries workshop to biologists at Rutgers looking to expand their bioinformatics skills. It was my first non-home institution workshop and it went very well, Janet Adler and the iJOBs program were great hosts I was glad to be invited to teach alongside Aziz Khan, with helpers Khang Dang & Sam Desind.