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  • Fall, 2012: EEB464 Macroevolution
  • Fall, 2012: EEB511 EEB Graduate Core
  • Fall, 2012: EEB604 HOFF (Hulsey, O'Meara, Fordyce, Fitzpatrick) meeting seminar
  • Spring, 2012: Bio130 Biodiversity
  • Fall, 2011: EEB464 Macroevolution.
  • Fall, 2011: EEB511 EEB Graduate Core
  • Fall, 2011: EEB604 HOFF (Hulsey, O'Meara, Fordyce, Fitzpatrick) meeting seminar
  • Fall, 2010: EEB461 Macroevolution.
  • Fall, 2010: EEB511 EEB Graduate Core
  • May, 2010: Tutorial in phylogenetics for iPlant developers and other interested parties (part of iPlant 2010 conference)
  • Spring, 2010: EEB607 Special topics in evolution. Taught as non-traditional approaches to looking at adaptive radiation.
  • Spring, 2010: EEB409 Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. See course flyer.
  • Fall, 2009: EEB Graduate Core Course, phylogenetics section. Syllabus and lectures available here.
  • Nov., 2008: Invited guest lecture in UNC Chapel Hill Biology 526H: Computational Genetics
  • Summer, 2008: Instructor in Computational Phyloinformatics course at NESCent, R track. This was a course in programming and using R for comparative methods targeted at grad students and postdocs. Sample student comments: "[other instructor] and Brian are great. Both very patient and knowledgeable on programming and comparative methods. Brian is particularly good at explaining tough concepts." "Brian O'Meara did wonderful [sic], with awesome graphics and very clear explanations."
  • March, 2008: Instructor for Bodega Bay Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. Gave lectures/exercises in "Intro to tree search and PAUP", "Tree-based species delimitation", "Continuous trait evolution and Brownie", "NESCent: What is it and what can it do for you?", and "Intro to programming in R."
  • April, 2007: Organized (with committee of other students) a four-day workshop on "Paleontology and its relevance to neontologists."
  • March, 2007: Instructor for Bodega Bay Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. Gave lectures and exercises in "Intro to PAUP", "Intro to Perl", and "Intro to using a cluster."
  • November, 2006: Invited guest lecture on phylogenetics for ecologists in UC Davis Ecology 200B, core course for graduate students in Ecology.
  • May, 2006: Organized (with committee of other students) a two-day workshop on "Model Selection and Multi-Model Inference" featuring Ken Burnham and Bill Link.
  • April, 2006: Invited guest lecture on likelihood and Bayesian tree search at UC Davis PBG200C, core course for graduate students in Population Biology.
  • April, 2006: Teaching assistant for Bodega Bay Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. Gave lectures and exercises in "Intro to PAUP", "Intro to Perl", and "Intro to Brownie".
  • Spring, 2006: Co-organized (with Brad Shaffer) a course on "To tree or not to tree": when to use phylogenetic methods and when to use population genetic methods to address questions.
  • Winter, 2006: Teaching assistant for EVE103, "Phylogeny and Macroevolution" (instructor Mike Sanderson). Involved designing and grading homework assignments, computer lab exercises, and reports for a mixed class of undergrads and grad students.
  • Nov., 2005: Invited guest lecture on likelihood and Bayesian tree search at UC Davis GEL260, Seminar in Paleontology.
  • May, 2005: Teaching assistant for Bodega Bay Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. Gave lecture and exercises on "Intro to programming", including using Unix and programming using Perl.
  • March, 2005: Invited guest lecture on phylogenetics at San Francisco State U, computer science course 858, "Biology for [computer] scientists."