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Spring 2025
Life Sciences 1b: An Integrated Introduction to Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution
Topics: Mendelian genetics, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, and population genetics
Time commitment: 0.4 FTE
Compensation: $11,720 ($1,116 bi-weekly); For G3 and above: $13,150 ($1,252 bi-weekly)
Course Description:
Life Sciences 1b is a spring-semester course that integrates molecular biology, genetics, genomics and evolution. The course is a large, introductory course where many enrolled students are first-year undergraduates. This course takes an integrated approach, showing how genetics and evolution are intimately related, together explaining the patterns of genetic variation we see in nature, and how genomics can be used to analyze variation. The focus of this course is on the fundamental features of Mendelian genetics, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, and population genetics.
Teaching Fellow Responsibilities:
- Dates: End of January – beginning of May 2025
- Lead a combined teaching section & lab – 3hr/week
- Attend weekly staff meetings – 1hr/week
- Attend lectures – 3.75hr/week (location: Science Center, Harvard Cambridge Campus)
- Hold office hours – 1hr/week (preferably in-person, remote possible)
- Grade lab assignments and problem sets (exams are graded by external graders)
- Sign up for additional duties during exams (proctoring, extra office hours, etc.)
For questions/to apply, email lsci1b@fas.harvard.edu
To apply, please include your CV to schedule an interview.
*Hiring is on a rolling basis, Sept-Dec. Final hiring contingent on student enrollment.
Life Sciences 1a: An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Course description:
Life Sciences 1a is a fall-semester survey course that integrates general chemistry, organic chemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology at the introductory level. The course is large (typically about 300 students), with the majority of students being freshmen. The focus is on the fundamental features of living systems, with topics including intermolecular interactions, thermodynamics, acidity, (first-order) kinetics, the central dogma, cell signaling, enzyme catalysis, and transport across membranes. These concepts are then applied to consider drug design and discovery.
All classes are held in person in the Science Center (Harvard Cambridge Campus)
Dates:
- Lectures: 09/03/2024 – 12/03/2024 (Tue & Thu, 1.30pm)
- Section: 09/11/2024 – 12/06/2024 (Wed, Thu or Fri, varying times)
Responsibilities:
- Attend lectures
- Attend staff meetings (1 hour/week)
- Prepare and lead one discussion & laboratory section (~3 hours) per week (12 sections/semester; size: ~12-16 students)
- Grade and return assignments (i.e. problem sets, lab assignments)
- Hold office hours (1 hour/week/section)
- Fulfill one exam duty for every midterm and final (i.e. proctoring, pre-running assessments, or staff help rooms)
- Be available by email to answer student questions throughout the semester
- Attend two days of TF training in August (dates TBD, 9-5pm)
Total time commitment is 0.4 FTE
Compensation for teaching one section (0.4FTE):
Junior rate TFs: $11,720 total ($1,116.19 bi-weekly)
Senior rate (G3 or above): $13,150 total ($1252.38 bi-weekly for TFs or $2,630 monthly for TAs)
To apply:
Please email lsci1a@fas.harvard.edu and include your CV. We will be conducting interviews and hiring primarily in the months of April, May and June. Final hiring is contingent on student enrollment.