Teaching at Boston University
Fall 2025
- CAS BI/NE503; GMS AN703 Neuroimmunology (Biology/Neuroscience/BMB juniors and seniors, Neuro/CM/MCBB/other GRS/GPN/A&N/other GMS graduate students)
Fall 2024
- CAS BI/NE503; GMS AN703 Neuroimmunology (Biology/Neuroscience/BMB juniors and seniors, Neuro/CM/MCBB/other GRS/GPN/A&N/other GMS graduate students)
- CAS BI533 Seminar: Progress in Neurobiology (Graduate Student Seminar for Neurobiology Students)
Astrocytes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – a TikTok production
*TikTok Doom Scrolling
*refs
The Final Blow: A CTE Story
*short movie
*refs
The Microglial Pals: Astrocytes and Alzheimer’s Disease
*animated video
*refs
Dateline - The Day Oligodendrocytes Disappeared
*YouTube video
Hope for Multiple Sclerosis- A Story of Cellular Interactions and Treatment Potential
*comic strip
*refs
Spring 2024
- GMS AN802 Seminar: Research Colloquium –– Neuroimmunology Literature Seminar (Anatomy & Neurobiology graduate students)
Fall 2023
- CAS BI594/NE594 Neuroimmunology (Biology/Neuroscience seniors, Neuro/CM/MCBB/GPN/A&N graduate students)
Oligodendrocytes in Multiple Sclerosis
*crash course videos
Microglia and Major Depressive Disorder
*multimedia webpage
Astrocytes and Autism
*podcast
*Instagram
*refs
Spring 2023
- CAS BI582 Professional Development Course (post-quals. Biology graduate students)
Fall 2022
- CAS BI581 Grant Writing Course (1st and 2nd year Biology–CM, Neuro, MCBB–graduate students)
Renata Serio (Fizbein Lab) won the prestigious 2023 NSF GRFP Award!
Anne-Marie Abban-Demitrus was awarded the 2023 American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship!
Emily Yu Yang received Honourable Mention for the 2024 NSF GRFP cycle!
Teaching at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 2017–2021
WS = winter semester; SS = summer semester (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg)WS 2020/2021
- Genetics and Developmental Biology (MSc. Biology students)
- Gender Equality in STEM (interdisciplinary course for Bachelor and Master students, Faculty of Engineering)
Bioinformatics Workshop Galaxy Project
SS 2020
- General and Neural Developmental Biology (MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)
WS 2019/2020
- Genetics and Developmental Biology (MSc. Biology students)
- Developmental Neurobiology Lab Projects (lab internship for MSc. students)
SS 2019
- Signalwege bei Alterung, Krebs und altersbedingten Erkrankungen (Signalling in ageing, cancer and age-related diseases) (lab internship for BSc. Biology students)
- Gender Equality in STEM (interdisciplinary course for Bachelor and Master students, Faculty of Engineering)
- Development of the Nervous System (MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)
WS 2018/2019
- Developmental Neurobiology Lab Projects (lab internship for MSc. students)
SS 2018
- Development of the Nervous System (MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)
WS 2017/2018
- Developmental Neurobiology Lab Projects (lab internship for MSc. students)
SS 2017
- Establishing the Nervous System (MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)
- Development of the Nervous System (MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)
- Aberrant signalling in human diseases: from mechanism to therapy (MSc. Biology students)
- Methods in Developmental Neurobiology (lab practical for MSc. Biology and Neuroscience students)