In addition to my PhD research, I am also involved in teaching and demonstrating to undergraduate and postgraduate students in both life science and chemistry. My duties can range from demonstrating in labs and marking manuscripts. I enjoy taking time out of my research to teach others the skills I have acquired in recent years. I often find myself teaching in a range of classes including molecular biology which is most closely related to my research to cellular biology classes which allows me to learn and understand new techniques as well.

Year 1: Biochemistry of Proteins - 2014

• Purification of Ovalbumin and Enumeration of thiol groups.
• Included manuscript marking.

Year 1: Bacterial DNA Extraction - 2014

• Basic Microscopy work.

• Extracting, purifying and quantifying DNA from a known number of cells.
• Spectroscopic studies.
• Included manuscript marking.

Year 2: Cell Biology - 2015

• Immunocytochemistry techniques.
• Confocal microscopy.
• Expression of reporter genes and expression assays.

Year 2: Enzymology - 2016

• Protein Concentration Methods
• Protein Kinetics

Year 3: Project Dissertation - 2015

• Site-directed mutagenesis.
  
• Protein Expression.

Year 3: Structural Biology - 2015

• X-Ray Crystallography
• Protein Expression and Purification

MBiol: Master Class in Molecular Biology - 2014

• PCR.

• DNA gel electrophoresis.
• Transformations.
• Site-directed mutagenesis.

 

MSc: Water Pipetting Lab - 2014

• Teaching students from a range of scientific backgrounds from maths to biology how to correctly use an air displacement pipette, graduated pipette and volumetric pipettes.
• The importance of accuracy and precision.