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FIOCRUZ

College Biology Instructor with a PhD in Cell Biology

Hi, I’m Claudia. I hold a B.S. in Biological Sciences with a major in Genetics and a teaching degree (Licentiate) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an M.Sc. and a PhD in Cell Biology from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading health research institute in Brazil. I have more than 20 years of experience teaching biology to students from middle school to graduate school. I started as a science teacher for a middle school class in Rio de Janeiro, with students aged 11 to 14. Since then, I have taught General Biology lectures to community college students at Palomar College, led parasitology lab classes for graduate students at UC San Francisco, and taught cell biology lectures and labs to undergraduate and graduate students at Fiocruz since 2001. Much of my teaching has also been one-on-one: since 2006 I have mentored more than a dozen students in research, from a high school student to PhD candidates, guiding them through experiments, data analysis, scientific writing, and presentations. One of my undergraduate students won a best presentation award. As a researcher at UC San Francisco, UC San Diego, and now San Diego State University, I study infectious diseases, cell biology, and immunology. I have published more than 30 scientific papers, received two Zigman Brener Awards for my research on Chagas disease, and serve as an editor for scientific journals. This lets me show students how biology is used in real labs.

Subjects: AP Biology, Advanced Cell Biology, Biology, Biology, Zoology, Elementary Science, High School Science, Honors Biology, IB Sciences, Microbiology, Middle School Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Sciences, Science