One of my favorite parts about being an academic is mentoring students. During my Ph.D. and Postdoc I have mentored 13 students, ranging from visiting high schoolers and summer interns to Ph.D. Students.
I also love teaching, especially teaching students how to use the amazing new, cutting-edge tools we have access to as structural biologists. In 2024 and 2025, I redesigned and taught the Biozentrum Structural Biology Block Course to make it current with paradigm-changing events in the field. In the new course, we did a week of computational structural biology where the students were taken on a tour of the history of structure prediction and protein design all before designing their own proteins. After rotating through several structural biology labs, the students get to express, purify, and structurally characterize their designs.
