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Teaching & Outreach

Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Teaching

Teaching in the Shao Lab centers on making quantitative and computational approaches accessible to students trained in biology, and on giving modelers enough field and laboratory grounding to build models worth believing.

Courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

CourseTitleSemesters
TBDCourse assignments to be announced2026--2027

Courses at Dartmouth College

CourseTitleSemesters
BIOL 26Global Change Biology — guest lecture, “Introduction to modeling environmental systems”2023

Courses at McGill University

CourseTitleSemesters
GEOG 501Modelling Environmental Systems — teaching assistant and guest lecturer2015--2020
GEOG 407Issues in Geography — teaching assistant and guest lecturer2015--2020
GEOG 203Environmental Systems — teaching assistant2015--2020
GEOG 205Global Change: Past, Present and Future — teaching assistant2015--2020
GEOG 321Climatic Environments — teaching assistant2015--2020

Mentoring

Current Students

StudentRoleInstitutionPeriod
Yueyue XingPhD supervisory committee member (PI: Jianghua Wu) — advancing the McGill Wetland Model for wetland biogeochemical simulationsMemorial University of Newfoundland2025--present
Celestine Neba SuhPhD supervisory committee member (PI: Jianghua Wu) — advancing the McGill Wetland Model for wetland biogeochemical simulationsMemorial University of Newfoundland2025--present

Past Students

Undergraduate Researchers
StudentProjectInstitutionPeriod
Zachary Shortt“When do mixed mycorrhizal forests have the lowest carbon cost for nitrogen uptake?” — resulted in a co-authored publication in JGR: BiogeosciencesDartmouth College2022--2024

Outreach