Courses

Winter 2009: Genetic Engineering in Developing Countries
Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA.

• The ethics of GM food aid to southern Africa
• Issues with IRB review in developing countries
• Worldwide regulation of GMOs in agriculture
• The Cartagena Protocol
• The Cartagena Protocol and GM mosquitoes
• GM mosquitoes for disease control
• The ethics of GM mosquitoes
• Informed consent in developing countries
• Public perspectives to GMOs in Western nations and Africa
• Indigenous genetic resources and intellectual property
  
  
  Fall 2008: Biosafety training course for Africa related to the potential release of genetically modified disease vectors
  University of Bamako, Mali.
  
  
• Gene drive systems for spreading refractory genes
• Containment issues during planned field cage trials
• Public perspectives to genetically modified organisms in Western nations and Africa
  
  
  Teaching assistanceships
  
  Fall 2005: Hidden Markov Models for Bioacoustic Analysis,
  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA.