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Teaching

My current teaching commitments are:

• Year 1/2 PAL: I coordinate the Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) course. This is a peer group assistance scheme whereby Year 2 students work with Year 1 students to help them and, at the same time, revise their own Year 1 work.
• Year 1 medics: I co-run two 1-hour tutorial practicals on antibodies and I used to teach 2 tutorials on pH.
• Year 1 Experimental Biochemistry (BIOC1007): I give 13 tutorials
• Year 2 Molecular Biology (BIOC2001): I give one lecture and run one practical as an introduction to Bioinformatics and its application in molecular biology.
• Year 2 General Biochemistry and Further Topics in Biochemistry (BIOC2002/3):I give one lecture and run a pair of tutorial practicals on protein structure. I used to teach 4 tutorials on refresher molecular biology, the immune response, protein structure and function and enzymology and intracellular protein targetting.
• Year 2 Proteins and Enzymes (BIOC2004): I am deputy organizer for this module and give a lecture on intra- and inter-molecular forces in proteins and two lectures on antibodies. I also give 5 tutorials.
• Year 3 Advanced Molecular Biology (BIOC3004): I run a Bioinformatics practical on this module.
• Year 3 module (BIOC3010) Bioinformatics: I am deputy organizer for this module and give a number of lectures and practicals.
• Post-graduate training: I run a 1-day course on Bioinformatics for new post graduate students and co-organize a 1-day course in intellectual property in molecular biology. I also give one lecture on each of two 1-week courses run by the Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
• Birkbeck MSc/MRes Bioinformatics, Biocomputing II: I am coordinator for this module and give 3 lectures and practicals.
• Birkbeck MSc/MRes Bioinformatics, Databases: I give 2 lectures and 2 practicals.
• Birkbeck MSc/MRes Bioinformatics, Molecular Structure: I run 5 practicals on this module.

I also taught on the Summer 2004 Exeter Bioinformatics Summer School and was a guest lecturer on the MSc course at Queen Mary's University of London, Easter 2005 and Autumn 2006.

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At The University of Reading I taught on:

• Part 1 module: Cell Biology and Biochemistry (discussion groups)
• Part 1 module: Biochemistry and Metabolism (Enzyme Kinetics lectures)
• Part 2 module: Microbial Biochemistry (bioinformatics practical)
• Part 2 module: Molecular Biology (bioinformatics lectures)
• Part 3 module: Advanced Structural Biology (bioinformatics lectures, practical and mini-project)
• Part 3 module: Practical Molecular Zoology (bioinformatics practicals)

I coordinated the development of a new Part 2 module on Structural Biochemistry and planned a new Part 2 module on Computing for Biology/Bioinformatics and a new Part 3 module on Bioinformatics before moving to UCL.