Nick Wong

Nick Wong

I am a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University and the Carnegie Institute in the Ludington Lab.

Teaching

AS.020.129.12.IN25 The Microscopic Secret Society Of Bacteria That Rule The World

Intersession Course, Johns Hopkins University, 2025

This course will teach about microbial ecology and evolution with topics ranging from human health to global ecology. Learn about how microbes have evolved to live and shape in their environments and the impacts they have on all orders of life. Gain an understanding of how anthropogenic driven climate change, industrialization and urbanization is changing the microbial environment and its effect on public health. There will be an emphasis on exposure to bacteriology research at Johns Hopkins, greater Maryland area and beyond from a seminar series of guest lectures.

AS.020.315 Biochemistry Project Lab Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Lab, Johns Hopkins University, 2024

This research project laboratory investigates the flow of energy through biological systems using focused examination of key cellular energy-conversion processes. Students will be introduced to the broad field of biochemistry research through computational structural analysis, directed mutation, recombinant protein production, and enzymatic analysis. Participants will be trained in biochemical laboratory techniques and expected to contribute their findings to the scientific community using formal, academic communications.

AS.020.153 General Biology Lab Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Lab, Johns Hopkins University, 2023

This course reinforces the topics covered in AS.020.151. Students participate in a semester-long project, identifying bacteria from Homewood campus soils using molecular biology techniques. Other laboratory exercises cover aspects of evolution, genomics and biochemistry. Cross-listed with Behavioral Biology. Student must have enrolled in AS.020.151 either this term or in past terms. Students who have credit for AP Biology but take General Biology Lab I will lose four credits of AP Biology credit. Cross-listed with Behavioral Biology. This course is offered in fall terms only.

BIMM 121 Microbiology Lab Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate lab, University of California San Diego, 2021

Techniques in microbial physiology, microbial genomics, microbial evolution, and microbial ecology will be used to explore the role of microbes in industry, health, and the environment. Inquiry-based experiments will cover the fundamentals of both working with live microscopic organisms at the bench and bioinformatically analyzing their genomes at the computer. Attendance at the first lecture/lab is required. Nonattendance may result in the student being dropped from the course roster. Material lab fees will apply. Prerequisites: BILD 1.