Hello! my name is Cormac Toler-Scott, and I am a senior TA here in the Biology department at UBC. I’m from Seattle, Washington, where I completed my Bachelor’s in evolutionary biology at the University of Washington in 2021. I finished my MSc in zoology with the Leander lab here in September 2025, and I studied …
Monthly Archives: February 2026
Teaching Spotlight – Expert Interview Assignments Bring Course Material to Life in BIOL 348
When teaching the BIOL 348 – Biology of Cannabis course, Christine Goedhart incorporated a series of Expert Interview assignments featuring a diverse range of professionals working in the cannabis field. Below, Christine shares the motivation behind including these assignments, how she designed and implemented them, the impact they had on students and the course, and …
TA Spotlight – Maia Palka
Hi everyone! My name is Maia, and I am a PhD candidate in the Botany department supervised by Dr. Brian Leander. I study the evolution of symbiotic relationships between bacteria and marine benthic protists using microscopy and omics tools. I completed my bachelor’s degree here at UBC in Applied Animal Biology. As an undergrad, I …