Bio 282 Phage Bioinformatics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Fall 2025
Undergraduate TAs for Phage Bioinformatics will learn teaching techniques and increase their understanding of Phage Bioinformatics course material by assisting with the course, offering direct student support, and meeting weekly with undergraduate and graduate TAs to discuss and implement best practices in the lab.
UTAs will attend all class sessions (MW, 12:20-1:10pm) and assist the instructional team with answering student questions, demonstrating proper technique, discussing experimental design and data analysis, and providing moral support and motivation for students in the course. UTAs will also help to lead Friday discussion sessions (F 12:20-1:10).
An atmosphere of enthusiasm for biology and the work at hand can motivate students and improve the lab experience.
Being an undergraduate teaching assistant will allow you to gain confidence, learn more about teaching, share knowledge, connect with other students, and prepare for other leadership roles. This experience will require you to re-learn the material covered in the course in order to explain and teach it to others. You will participate in annotating novel genomes with the students enrolled in the course and work as a team with course instructors, other UTAs, and GTAs.