Teaching in Highschool
Replicards
Together with Yseult Héjja-Brichard, I developed an interactive class for science teachers to teach biological evolution through a card game.
🔗 Replicards website
🖥 Replicards source code
Guest lectures
Guest lectures for high school students (2022 - 2023):
- “Introduction to biology”
- “The logic of transcription and translation”
- “Cells and viruses”
- “Introduction to Genetics”
Teaching at the University
Classes taught
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General and Molecular Genetics (BIOL302 - UMBC): Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
> 200 students. Designed weekly homework, held weekly office hours, proctored exams. -
Ecology and Evolution (BIOL142 - UMBC): Fall 2021
> 100 students. Prepared and led weekly discussions sections, held weekly office hours, graded and reviewed exams. -
Advanced Genomics and Epigenomics (PoliMi-UniMi): Fall 2022
Designed, together with Dr. Matteo Brilli, a workshop in R for the class ”Advanced Genomics and Epigenomics”, delivered by the joint PoliMi-UniMi Master’s degree “Bioinformatics for Computational Genomics”. -
Guest lecture “Motif matching and motif discovery” for the course Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOL 313 - UMBC): Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
Science communication
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Invited talk for high school students at Melzo Incontra la Scienza (Melzo meets Science)
“Evolution of Mutation Rates” (Jan 2, 2025; Melzo ,Italy) -
Invited talk for Euresis association
“Good at evolving – The Evolution of Mutation Rates” (Aug 20, 2024; Rimini ,Italy)
🎬 YouTube video (in Italian; starting from min 28:15) -
Invited talk at Balticon
“Stranger Things of the Microcosmos” (May 26, 2024; Baltimore, USA)
📄 Slides
🎬 YouTube video
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Invited talk at QuantumPhotonics Club podcast
“Viruses may have eyes and ears on us” (Oct 29, 2022) -
Online presentations for the general public (local cultural associations) during the lockdown in Italy to explain how COVID-19 vaccines work and how they are developed (> 100 attendees). (Jan 2021)