Teaching

I have been teaching a variety of courses since the beginning of my PhD in 2015, usually single-topic courses and short series between 2 and 8 hours, in several areas of the life sciences and computer science.

Computer Science

• Machine and deep learning track, Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School 2024 (Uzhhorod, Ukraine).

• Summer school on ‘LLM deployment in the cloud’, German Center of Competence in Cloud Computing for Data Management and Data Processing, 2024. Materials available on GitHub.

Medical Informatics

• Mapping of ontology terms based on internal representation of biomedically trained Large Language Models (Heidelberg University Hospital, ‘Digital Medicine’).

• Annotation of single cells based on gene markers and free text using a combination of Large Language Models and ontology tools (Heidelberg University Hospital, ‘Digital Medicine’).

• Benchmarking of Large Language Models for biomedical question answering tasks (Heidelberg University Hospital, ‘Digital Medicine’).

Meta-science

• GRADE Postgraduate Seminar Series ‘Reproducibility in Biomedical Research’ (Goethe University Frankfurt).

• MSc module ‘Reproducibility in Biomedical Research’ (Heidelberg University Hospital, Molecular Bioscience and Molecular Biotechnology programs)

Pharmacology

• Basics of pharmacology:

  • pharmacodynamics,

  • pharmacokinetics.

• Specifics of pathology and pharmacology:

  • pain,

  • mental disease,

  • neurodegenerative disease,

  • sleep disorders and epilepsy,

  • gastrointestinal disease,

  • asthma and chronic inflammatory disease,

  • infectious disease,

  • circulatory and cardiac disease,

  • endocrine disorders,

  • oncology,

  • toxicology.

Neuroscience

I have taught several courses in the seminar series ‘Interdisciplinary Neuroscience’ (MSc, Goethe University Frankfurt) and ‘Recent technologies in molecular neuroscience’ (Hebrew University Jerusalem).