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flowerSpring 2020

Botany 101
Monday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30 – 9:45am
Rutgers Hall, 101b
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Botany 102
Monday, Thursday, Friday: 10:30 – 12:45pm
Rutgers Hall, 101b
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flowerFall 2020

Evolution of Botany 101
Monday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30 – 9:45am
Rutgers Hall, 101b


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Evolution of Botany 102
Monday, Thursday, Friday: 10:30 – 12:45pm
Rutgers Hall, 101b
Course Link

 

Rutgers: Undergraduate Courses Taught

Evolution of Eukaryotes, 11:216:401 (formerly 11:704:401), 3 credits, developed new advanced undergrad/grad course and co-taught with Debashish Bhattacharya: Fall 2012.

First-year Byrne seminar: Evolution of food, cooking and plants, 11:090:101:12 (2011), 1 credit, developed new freshman course: Fall 2011.

First-year Byrne seminar: Food and Cooking through Change – A Spicy Walk through the Last 10,000 Years, 11:090:101:09 (2012), 11:090:101:09 (2014), 1 credit, developed new freshman course: Fall 2012, Spring 2014 (14 students)

First-year Byrne seminar: Safe or sorry? Herbal medicine, folklore and its scientific evidence, 11:090:101:06, 1 credit, developed new freshman course: Spring 2010.

First-year Byrne seminar: Weeds—What are They Good For? Life and Death among Unwanted Plants, 11:090:101:20, 1 credit, developed new freshman course, Fall 2014 (9 students), Fall 2015 (18 students).

First-year Byrne seminar: Medicinal Plants: From Ethnobotany to Pharmacognosy,11:090:101, 1 credit, developed new freshman course, with Mary Bridgeman in School of Pharmacy, Spring 2016 (18 students), Spring 2017 (20 students), Spring 2018 (18 students), Spring 2019 (16 students).

Fundamentals of Evolution, 11:216:251 (formerly 11:704:251), 3 credits, developed new sophomore course and co-taught with Siobain Duffy 2012-2015, with Kimberly Russell, Siobain Duffy, and Mansha Seth-Pasricha 2016 and 2017): Spring 2012 (49 students), Spring 2013 (76 students), Spring 2014 (72 students), Spring 2015 (66 students), Spring 2016 (72 students), Spring 2017 (70 students), Spring 2018 (77 students), Spring 2019 (80 students).

Fundamentals of Evolution Lab, 11:216:252, 1 credit, co-taught with Siobain Duffy): Spring 2014 (28 students), Spring 2015 (32 students), Spring 2016 (34 students), Spring 2017 (36 students), Spring 2018 (56 students), Spring 2019 (55 students).

Honors seminar: Evolution of Food, Crops, and Cooking from Pre-historic Times to Today. 11:216:296, 3 credits, Fall 2016 (18 students), Fall 2018 (16 students).

Honors Tutorial I, II, III, 11:554: XXX, 1-3 credits, mentoring of independent honors advanced undergraduate research, George H. Cook Honors Program: Spring 2005 (1 student), Fall 2005 (1 student), Spring 2006 (1 student), Spring 2017 (1 student), Fall 2017 (1 student).

Introduction to Ethnobotany, 11:776:205, 3 credits, developed new sophomore course and co-taught with J. Simon and others: Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2013 (20 students), Spring 2015 (2 guest lectures).

Practical Experience in Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources. 11:216:440, 1-3 credits. Mentored research experience. Spring 2015 (1 student), Fall 2015 (1 student), Spring 2016 (9 students), Fall 2016 (3 students), Spring 2017 (11 students), Fall 2017 (8 students).

Research in Biotechnology, 11:126:497, 1-3 credits, advising of independent undergraduate research projects: Fall 2007 (2 students), Spring 2008 (1 student), Fall 2008 (1 student).

Research in Genetics, 11:447:406/407, 1-3 credits, advising of independent undergraduate research projects: Fall 2009 (1 student), Spring 2010 (1 student), Spring 2011 (1 student).

Research Problems in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, 11:704:483/484, 1-4 credits: Spring 2013 (3 students), Spring 2014 (2 students), Spring 2015 (1 student), Fall 2016 (2 students), Fall 2017 (2 students).

Plant Diversity and Evolution (aka Taxonomy of Vascular Plants before 2007), formerly 11:704:411, now 11:216:411, 3 credit (was 4 credits until 2015), developed new course, coordinator and lecturer, taught all lectures and labs 2002-2003, co-taught with James French 2005-2007, 100% responsibility 2009 onwards, approved Biology major elective 2015: Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2013 (7 students), Fall 2015 (46 students), Fall 2016 (44 students), Fall 2018 (49 students).

Plant Diversity and Evolution Lab (split off from lecture class in 2015), 11:216:412, 1 credit, developed new course, coordinator and lecturer, taught labs: Fall 2015 (27 students), Fall 2016 (26 students), Fall 2018.

Special Problems in Plant Science, 11:776:495, 1-4 credits, advising of independent undergraduate research projects: Spring 2008 (1 student), Fall 2009 (2 students), Fall 2011 (1 student), Fall 2015 (1 student).

 

Rutgers: Graduate Courses Taught

Advanced Evolution (aka “Journal Club in Evolution”), 16:215:550, 1 credit (since Fall 2009), ran together with Dr. Karl Kjer 2004-2008, with Siobain Duffy since 2011, for faculty, postdocs, graduate and highly advanced undergraduate students: every semester 2004-present, except Spring 2008, ca. 10-25 people attending each week): Fall 2009 (4 students for credit), Spring 2010 (3 students), Fall 2010 (5 students), Fall 2011 (4 students), Spring 2012 (12 students), Fall 2012 (9 students), Spring 2013 (12 students), Spring 2014 (9 students), Fall 2014 (6 students), Spring 2015 (2 students). Spring 2012 we read The Origin of Species by Darwin, Fall 2012 we read The Selfish Gene by Dawkins, and Spring 2014 we read Every Living Thing by Rob Dunn with each chapter paired with a modern research paper.

Advanced Plant Systematics, 16:215:507, 4 credits, core course in the Plant Biology graduate curriculum, developed new course, coordinator and lecturer, taught all lectures and labs 2002-2003, co-taught with James French 2005-2007, full responsibility 2009 onwards, combined advanced undergraduate and graduate course: Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2013 (25 students).

Plant Systematics, 16:215:507, 3 credits, developed new course, coordinator and lecturer, Fall 2015 (9 students), Fall 2016 (5 students), Fall 2018 (1 student).

Plant Systematics Lab, 16:215:507, 1 credit, developed new course, coordinator and lecturer, Fall 2015 (4 students), Fall 2016 (4 students), Fall 2018 (1 student).

Concepts and Methods in Evolution, 16:215:597, 4 credits, Core course in the Ecology and Evolution graduate curriculum until 2011, co-taught with Karl Kjer and others: Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009.

Core Seminars in Plant Biology, 16:765:600, 3 credits, co-coordinator, responsible for planning and grading of first half of course: seminars in Systematics and Organismal Plant Biology, Core course in the Plant Biology graduate curriculum: Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2012. Hosted speakers: Jun Wen (Spring 2006), Michael Balick (Spring 2006), Amy Litt (Spring 2006), Chris Hardy (Spring 2008), Lynn Clark (Spring 2008), Cheryl Lyn Dybas (Spring 2008), Elizabeth Kellogg (Spring 2008), Allison Snow (Spring 2010), Yin-Long Qiu (Spring 2012), Allison Miller (Spring 2012), Arthur Tucker (Spring 2012), Damon Little (Spring 2012), Chris Williams (Spring 2012).

Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, hosting of speakers: Nyree Conard Zerega (Jan 2002), Tim Motley (Nov 2002), Jerry Davis (Feb 2003), Len Hirsch (Dec 2004), Rob Wallace (Mar 2005), Nat Bletter (Jan 2006), Tatyana Livschultz (Apr 2009), Allison Snow (Feb 2010), John L. Clark (Sep 2012), Bernd Blossey (April 2013).

Evolution of Eukaryotes, 16:215:299:02, 3 credits, developed new advanced undergrad/grad course and co-taught with Debashish Bhattacharya: Fall 2012.

Methods in Plant Systematics, 16:765:503, 3 credits, developed new course, Core track course in the Plant Biology graduate curriculum until 2012: Fall 2002 (8 students), Spring 2006 (3 students), Spring 2008 (5 students), Spring 2010 (5 students), Spring 2012 (1 student), Spring 2014 (3 students).

Research in Ecology, 16:215:701/702, 2-6 credits, advising of independent research projects: Spring 2004 (1 student), Fall 2004 (1 student), Spring 2005 (1 student), Summer 2005 (1 student), Fall 2005 (1 student), Spring 2005 (1 student), Spring 2006 (1 student), Fall 2007 (1 student), Spring 2008 (1 student), Fall 2010 (1 student), Spring 2011 (1 student), Fall 2011 (2 students), Spring 2012 (1 student), Fall 2012 (2 students), Spring 2013 (2 students), Fall 2013 (3 students), Spring 2014 (2 students), Fall 2014 (3 students), Spring 2015 (3 students), Fall 2015 (2 students), Spring 2016 (2 students), Fall 2016 (2 students), Spring 2017 (1 student), Fall 2017 (2 students), Spring 2018, Fall 2018.

Research in Plant Biology, 16:765:701/702, 2-6 credits, advising of independent student research projects: Spring 2004 (2 students), Summer 2004 (2 students), Fall 2004 (2 students), Spring 2005 (3 students), Fall 2005 (3 students), Spring 2006 (2 students), Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007 (3 students), Spring 2008, Fall 2008 (2 students), Spring 2009 (1 student), Fall 2009 (2 students), Spring 2010 (1 student), Spring 2012 (1 student), Fall 2012 (1 student), Spring 2015 (1 student), Fall 2015 (1 student), Spring 2016 (1 student), Fall 2016 (1 student).