About Research Teaching

Maria Valdez Cabrera (she/her)

Postdoctoral Fellow,

Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant — European Institute for Marine Sciences, Brest University

  • EBAME: Emerging Bioinformatics Approaches for Microbial Ecogenomics - October 2025
    • Statistics foundations for metagenomics:
      • Data from the POV of a Statistician.
      • Functional enrichment - lab
      • Models for differential abundance - lab

Teaching Assistant — Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago

  • STAMPS: Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures - July 2025 & July 2024
    • Statistics Foundations: Data from the POV of a Statistician.
    • R workshop: Introduction to R tools.
    • Modeling microbial abundances: Overview of models for differential abundance.
    • Phylogenomics: Introduction to Tree Estimation.

Teaching Assistant — University of Washington

  • BIOST 571: Advanced Regression Methods for Dependent Data (January 2023 – March 2023)
  • BIOST 537: Survival Data Analysis in Epidemiology (January 2022 – March 2022)
  • BIOST 513: Medical Biometry III (March 2021 – June 2021)
  • BIOST 512: Medical Biometry II (January 2021 – March 2021)
  • BIOST 536: Categorical Data Analysis in Epidemiology (September 2020 – December 2020)
  • BIOST 523: Statistical Inference for Biometry II (January 2020 – March 2020)
  • BIOST 512: Medical Biometry II (January 2019 – March 2019)
  • BIOST 511: Medical Biometry I (September 2018 – December 2018)

Teaching Assistant — Universidad de Guanajuato

  • M24101: Statistical Methods (January 2016 – June 2016)