Position Title
Academic Coordinator
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests
I am the Academic Coordinator and an Instructor for Introductory Biology at UC Davis, where I teach and lead the instructional teams responsible for the BIO2 lecture and BIO2L laboratory. I oversee course development, coordination, administration, instructional training, and delivery across these large, multi-section courses, including the hiring, training, and supervision of teaching assistants.
I work with online tools designed to support collaborative engagement with course material in the BIO2L laboratory curriculum. These tools help structure student participation, guide inquiry-based activities, and foster active learning and reflection.
I also work closely with graduate student teaching assistants and have developed a practice-based training program that prepares TAs to lead active-learning classrooms. Alumni of this program have gone on to education-focused positions at other universities. I also direct a large Learning Assistant (LA) program, where I train and mentor over 30 undergraduate LAs each term. These LAs play an integral role in supporting student learning across laboratories, discussion sections, and lectures.
- 2003 B.S. in Genetics, University of California, Davis
- 2008 Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis
- 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Research for the USDA, California
- Bin Li, Craig Skinner, Pablo R. Castello, Michiko Kato, Erin Easlon, Li Xie, Tianlin Li, SHu-Ping Lu, Chen Wang, Felicia Tsang, Robert Poyton, Su-Ju Lin, “Identification of Potential Calorie Restriction-Mimicking Yeast Mutants with Increased Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain and Nitric Oxide Levels,” Journal of Aging Research, vol. 2011, Article ID 673185, 16 pages, 2011. doi:10.4061/2011/673185
- Wang C, Skinner C, Easlon E, Lin SJ (2009) Deleting the 14-3-3 protein Bmh1 extends life span in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by increasing stress response. Genetics, 183(4):1373-84.
- Chen, A. D. Steele, G. Hutter, J. Bruno, A. Govindarajan, Erin Easlon, S. Lin, A. Aguzzi, S. Lindquist, L. Guarente (2008) The role of calorie restriction and SIRT1 in prion-mediated neurodegeneration. Exp Gerontol, 43(12):1086-93.
- Chen D, Bruno J, Easlon E, Lin SJ, Cheng HL, Alt FW, Guarente L (2008) Tissue- specific regulation of SIRT1 by calorie restriction. Genes Dev, 22(13):1753-7.
- Easlon, F. Tsang, C. Skinner and S. Lin (2008) The malate-aspartate NADH shuttle components are novel metabolic longevity regulators required for calorie restriction mediated life span extension. Genes Dev, 22(7):931-44.