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593nces who did not come to it through a biology degree. Both are the same problem: finding the version of an idea that fits in someoneâs head.</p> 594<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="display:block;max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;"><img decoding="async" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Teaching-1024x768.jpg" alt="Teaching with Aplysia vaccaria, the California black sea hare" loading="lazy" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:8px;" /></span><span style="display:block;max-width:760px;margin:.7em auto 0;font-size:13.5px;line-height:1.55;color:#5a6672;text-align:center;">Teaching with <em>Aplysia vaccaria</em>, the California black sea hare. Mixed reactions.</span></p> 595<p style="max-width:760px;margin:2.2em auto .6em;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#0000ff;line-height:1.3;padding-bottom:.25em;border-bottom:2px solid #b7dcf1;">University courses</p> 596<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">Biology 352: Genetics and Evolution</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Teaching Associate, 2014–2016 · upper division · 5 sections</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#7b8690;font-style:italic;margin-top:.35em;line-height:1.5;">Transmission genetics, population genetics, and evolutionary biology. Weekly activity sections built around computer exercises, problem sets, and discussion of primary literature.</span></p> 597<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">Biology 204: Organismal Biology</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Teaching Associate, 2017–2018 · lower division · 2 sections</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#7b8690;font-style:italic;margin-top:.35em;line-height:1.5;">Diversity and systematics across bacteria, protists, fungi, plants and animals, with laboratory work in observing, identifying, and classifying life and evaluating adaptive significance.</span></p> 598<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">Biology 523: Herpetology</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Teaching Associate, 2016–2017 · undergraduate and graduate · 1 section</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#7b8690;font-style:italic;margin-top:.35em;line-height:1.5;">Evolution, systematics, distribution, and ecology of the amphibians and reptiles of the world.</span></p> 599<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">Biology 624: Population Genetics</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Invited Guest Lecturer, 2016–2017 · graduate</span><span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#7b8690;font-style:italic;margin-top:.35em;line-height:1.5;">Genetic diversity in natural populations, drift, mutation, gene flow, selection, nucleotide variation, and quantitative genetics, with the emphasis on analysing and interpreting real data. I designed the population genomics workshop for this course.</span></p> 600<p style="max-width:760px;margin:2.2em auto .6em;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#0000ff;line-height:1.3;padding-bottom:.25em;border-bottom:2px solid #b7dcf1;">Graduate tutorials</p> 601<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;">Two runnable walkthroughs written for the Biology 624 population genomics workshop, still online and still working: <a href="/software/ms_vs_ddradseq/" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">Analysis of Population Structure: Microsatellites vs. ddRADseq</a>, which compares the power of the two marker types to resolve population structure, and <a href="/software/pop_genom/" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">Population Genomics: Identifying Outlier Loci and Predicting Future Adaptation</a>.</p> 602<p style="max-width:760px;margin:2.2em auto .6em;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#0000ff;line-height:1.3;padding-bottom:.25em;border-bottom:2px solid #b7dcf1;">Mentoring</p> 603<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;">Mentored 12 graduate and 6 undergraduate students on projects spanning phylogenetics, landscape genetics, amphibian disease, and field methods. I also chaired the student job search committee for two genomics and quantitative biology faculty searches, and served as president of the SDSU Natural History Club.</p> 604<p style="max-width:760px;margin:2.2em auto .6em;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#0000ff;line-height:1.3;padding-bottom:.25em;border-bottom:2px solid #b7dcf1;">Teaching outside the classroom</p> 605<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;">Most of my teaching now happens at conferences, in webinars, and on video. A three-part series explains myOrigins 3.0 from first principles: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnzTeCQ3Hd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">overview</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suDc4CPJslI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">methodology</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcNPUS6IdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">interpreting your results</a>. Selected talks:</p> 606<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2026</span> Mitotree: the frontier of mitochondrial DNA research<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Genetic Genealogy Research Network, University of Strathclyde · <a href="https://youtu.be/MAOZLyK_ofQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 607<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2025</span> Mitotree: the frontier of human phylogenetic research<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">42nd Annual Willi Hennig Society Meeting</span></p> 608<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2025</span> Mitotree Discover demo: a year of breakthroughs in maternal lineages<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">RootsTech International Conference, Salt Lake City</span></p> 609<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2024</span>
609Ten years of evolutionary research on the Yosemite toad<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Tucson Herpetological Society (invited) · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMMoicdZ3vU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 610<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2023</span> Big Y: march of the ages<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">15th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQG4BZ42WuU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 611<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2023</span> Beethoven’s first DNA test<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">FamilyTreeDNA Town Hall (invited) · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbx3QaCJqM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 612<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2022</span> The Million Mito Project: growing the tree of womankind<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">RootsTech International Conference · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpctoeKb0Kw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 613<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2022</span> The tree of mankind age estimates<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">RootsTech Innovator Session (invited) · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjkL8PWAEwk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 614<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;"><span style="font-weight:700;color:#15202b;">2021</span> Everything you wanted to know about mitochondrial DNA<span style="display:block;font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6672;margin-top:.15em;">Genealogical Forum of Oregon · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7wl5I0K7s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">video</a></span></p> 615<p style="text-align:center;margin:2.6em auto 1em;"><a href="/teaching/evaluations/" style="display:inline-block;padding:13px 30px;background:#f1f7fc;border:2px solid #1f8ddb;border-radius:9px;color:#0000ff;font-size:16.5px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.3;">Read my teaching evaluations →</a></p> 616<p style="max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 1.3em;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;text-align:center;">A complete list of talks is in my <a href="/Paul_Maier_CV.pdf" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">CV</a>. Papers and reports are on the <a href="/publications/" style="color:#1f8ddb;text-decoration:underline;">Publications</a> page.</p> 617 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 618 619 <footer class="entry-footer"> 620 </footer><!-- .entry-footer --> 621</article><!-- #post-## --> 622 623 624 625 626 </main><!-- #main --> 627 </div><!-- #primary --> 628 629 </div> <!--.row--> 630 </div><!--.container--> 631 </div><!-- #content --> 632 <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo"> 633 <div class="row site-info"> 634 © 2026 <span class="sep"> | </span> 635 Paul Maier </div><!-- .site-info --> 636 </footer><!-- #colophon --> 637</div><!-- #page -->
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.