Meet Your Instructor and Grader

Life science is complicated. As your professor, I know you already know this, and it’s not my intention to teach you that. However, I am committed to giving you a glimpse into some of these complexities by integrating statistical concepts into life science topics. By the end of this course, I hope to increase your awareness of the potential inaccuracies in any data you use which implies that there might not always be a single explanation or prediction for an event, but rather, a range of possible outcomes. In the best-case scenario, I will support you in making sense of uncertainty in the (1) behavior of chemicals, (2) relationships among living organisms & communities of living organisms, and (3) physical processes that sustain most of the living systems through the use of statistics.

Instructor

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Dr. Sinem Demirci (she/they)
sinemdemirci
sdemirci@calpoly.edu
025-213

Office Hours:

Tue: 08:30 – 09:20 am (In-Office)
Wed: 10:40 – 11:30 am (Zoom)
Thu: 09:30 – 11:10 am (In-Office)

Grader

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Kristina Mee Benbrooks (she/her)
kbenbroo@calpoly.edu