Teaching

At Caltech

Bi 1x: The great ideas of biology: Exploration through experimentation

Spring 2024 | Spring 2023 | Spring 2022 | Spring 2021 | Spring 2020 | Spring 2019 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2017 | Spring 2016 | Spring 2015 | Spring 2014



BE 150/Bi 250b: Design principles of genetic circuits (with M. Elowitz)

Spring 2024 | Spring 2023 | Spring 2022 | Spring 2021 | Spring 2020 | Spring 2019 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2017 | Spring 2016 | Spring 2015



BE/Bi/NB 203: Intro. to programming for the bio. sciences bootcamp

Summer 2024 | Summer 2023 | Summer 2022 | Summer 2021 | Summer 2020 | Summer 2019 | Summer 2018 | Summer 2017 | Summer 2016 | Summer 2015



BE/Bi 103 a: Introduction to data analysis in the biological sciences

Fall 2023 | Fall 2022 | Fall 2021 | Fall 2020 | Fall 2019



BE/EE/MedE 189a: Design and construction of biodevices

Fall 2023 | Fall 2022 | Fall 2021 | Fall 2020 | Fall 2019 | Fall 2018 | Fall 2017 | Winter 2017



BE/Bi 103 b: Statistical inference in the biological sciences

Winter 2024 | Winter 2022 | Winter 2021 | Winter 2020



BE/Bi 25: Biophysical Chemistry

Winter 2024 | Winter 2023 | Winter 2022



BE/Bi/APh 161: Physical biology of the cell

Winter 2023 | Winter 2019 | Winter 2018 | Winter 2016 | Winter 2014



ChE/BE 163: Introduction to biomolecular engineering

Fall 2021 (with N. Pierce) | Winter 2018 (with N. Pierce) | Fall 2016 (with F. Arnold) | Fall 2014 (with F. Arnold)



BE 159: Signal transduction and mechanics in morphogenesis

Winter 2021 | Winter 2020 | Winter 2019 | Winter 2018 | Winter 2017 | Winter 2016 | Winter 2015 | Winter 2014



Freshman Summer Research Institute Intro. to programming bootcamp

Summer 2020



BE/Bi 101: Order of Magnitude Biology (with R. Phillips)

Spring 2016 | Spring 2015



BE/Bi 103: Data analysis in the biological sciences

Fall 2018 | Fall 2017 | Fall 2016 | Fall 2015 | Fall 2014


Extramural

Intro. to stat. inference in physical biology, Physics of Life, Dresden

Summer 2024 | Summer 2023 | Summer 2022



Intro. to computing in the bio. sciences bootcamp, EPFL

Summer 2023 | Summer 2022 | Summer 2019 | Summer 2018 (with S. Saladi)



DataFramed podcast

I was a frequent guest on the DataFramed podcast. Following are segments I have recorded.


Season 1, 2018

Plot all your data (22:55)

Swarm plots and jitter plots (17:45)

Empirical cumulative distribution functions (ECDFs) (23:55)

Reproducible pipelines (24:25)

Plotting on a log scale (37:25)

The Bernoulli distribution (17:00)

The Binomial distribution (19:30)

The Poisson distribution (27:00)

The Exponential distribution (20:00)

The Geometric and Gamma distributions (24:00)


Season 2, 2019

Gaussian distribution part 1 (36:00)

Gaussian distribution part 2 (39:38)



Case Studies in Statistical Thinking with DataCamp

released September 2017



Statistical Thinking in Python (part 2) with DataCamp

released December 2016



Statistical Thinking in Python (part 1) with DataCamp

released November 2016



MBL Physiology Course (Matlab bootcamp with H. Garcia & J. Boedicker)

Summer 2016