Active college chemistry educator specializing in learner-centered high impact educational practices.

 

Highlights

• Experience with teaching students from a wide range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• 8+ year experience in college chemistry instruction.
• Experienced in using MS Office, Learning Management Software such as Moodle, Canvas, and recording platforms like Panopto and Voice Thread.
• Regularly utilize active learning in classrooms
• Trained in presenting, preparing lectures, tests, activities aligned with learning outcomes.
• Trained in writing progress reports and manuscripts.
• Team player with effective interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in collection and analysis of scientific data.
• Excellent written and oral scientific communication skills.
• Quality Matters Certified.

Professional Appointments

Full Time Chemistry Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA	2019-current
Adjunct Chemistry Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA	2017-2019
Adjunct Chemistry Instructor, South Louisiana Community College, Lafayette, LA	2016-2019
Full Time Chemistry Instructor, Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, LA	(2015- 2016)
Full Time Chemistry Instructor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA	(2014-2015)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA	(2013)
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, NY	(2007)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, NY	(2005)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, KY	(2004)
E-structor at Quantlink solutions, India	(2003)
Lecturer, Chemistry Department, M.E.S. Garware College, Pune, India	(2003)
Research and Development Analyst, MAARC laboratories, Pune, India.	(2001)
BARC-University of Pune, Joint Junior Research Fellow, Pune, India.	(2001)
Courses Taught Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA (current)

CHEM 107 General Chemistry I, CHEM 108 General Chemistry II, CHEM 101 Survey of Chemistry I CHEM 102 Survey of Chemistry II

CHEM 102 Survey of Chemistry II (Hybrid) CHEM 115 General Chemistry Laboratory CHEM 123 General, Organic, Biochemistry

Instructor, South Louisiana Community College, Lafayette, LA General Chemistry I and II

General Chemistry Laboratory

Instructor, Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, LA General Chemistry I and II

General Chemistry Laboratory course Louisiana State Instructor, University, Baton Rouge, LA

General Chemistry I lecture General Chemistry Laboratory

Teaching Assistant Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY General Chemistry Workshop (CHE 132)

Certifications:

Quality Matters (APPQMR) Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Certified ULL Distance Learning Certified Online Instructor

ODL 110 Strategies for Engaging Learners Online Workshop ODL 100 Basic Course Building Workshop

OLC (Online Learning Consortium) Creating Effective Assessments Workshop

 

 

Professional Development and Outreach

Louisiana Research Center for Educators Summer Institute Certification for effective teaching techniques

1. How to use active learning in the classroom
2. Flipping the classroom
3. Classroom Management

Faculty Teaching and Learning Center at Baton Rouge Community College

1. Tweaking your lectures to promote active learning.
2. A failure to communicate. Why students fail in scientific disciplines!
3. Student mental health.
4. Teaching as a performance- Learning to get the most out of your voice.
5. Integrating cultural diversity into your class
6. Online teaching workshop

Service to Profession at Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana:

1. Faculty Advisor, Academic Learning Center Member, International Education Committee
2. Conducted workshop on Logical Problem Solving in General Chemistry. Volunteered as a Judge in Science fairs.

Presented research talks and posters in Biophysical Society Meetings in Boston, Baltimore and Long Beach

 

 

Education

Ph.D. Chemistry. Specialization in chemical biology, December 2012

Graduate Program in Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Dissertation Advisor: Erwin London, (Ph.D.) Dissertation Title: Study of lipid raft formation in model membranes and cells.

M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry 2001

MES’ Abasaheb Garware College, University of Pune, Pune, India B.Sc. Chemistry 1999. Minors: Physics, Botany and Zoology

MES’ Abasaheb Garware College, University of Pune, Pune, India

 

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Pathak P and London E. (2015) The Effect of Membrane Lipid Composition Upon the Formation of Lipid Ultrananodomains. Biophysical Journal 109 (8) (1630-1638).
2. Pathak P*, LaRocca TJ*, Chiantia S, Toledo A, Dastgheib-Behesti K, Silvius JR, Benach JL and London E. (* Equal contribution) (2013). Proving lipid rafts exist: membrane domains in the prokaryote Borreliaburgdorferi have the same properties as eukaryotic lipid rafts. PLOS Pathogens 9 (1-11).
3. Pathak P and London E (2011). Measurement of Lipid Nanodomain (Raft) Formation and Size in Sphingomyelin/POPC/Cholesterol Vesicles Shows TX-100 and Transmembrane Helices Increase Domain Size by Coalescing Pre-Existing Nanodomains But Do Not Induce Domain Formation. Biophysical Journal 101 (2417- 2425).
4. LaRocca TJ, Crowley JT, Cusack BJ, Pathak P, Benach J, London E, Garcia-Monco JC and Benach JL. (2010). Cholesterol lipids of Borrelia burgdorferi form lipid rafts and are required for the bactericidal activity of a complement-independent antibody. Cell Host Microbe 8 (331-342).
5. Omar Bakht, Pathak P and London E. (2007). Effect of the structure of lipids favoring disordered domain formation on the stability of cholesterol-containing ordered domains (lipid rafts): Identification of multiple raft- stabilization mechanisms. Biophysical Journal 93 (4307-4318).