Dr. K is one of the best professor in UCSB. I really love her class and she can explain every single point clearly and she cares about students. She is so passionate about the class and encourages me succeed in genetics class. She sponsors my summer research internship and encourages my motivation in biomedical science, and pursue my doctoral study

Just getting used to lecturing for this class, and answers a lot of in class questions. Helpful office hours and has clear expectations and lecture slides. Fun to take this class with this professor and had helpful assignments

She is very nice and takes time to explain things. However she is TOO nice and we barely move through material. If you want an easy A, she's great, but if you want to learn more that what she covers, you'd have to do that on your own. Despite that, small bio is much better than big bio for MCDB 1B

I thought about giving a 3/5, but Petra is very kind and caring, and she does really want the best for her students. She is not very knowledgeable on the material though, and would oftentimes confuse both herself and the class. She does have an (adorable) ESA, so she might just be nervous in lectures, which should get better the more she teaches.

Good professor, made bio a lot easier and more digestible. She made it so getting a good grade was very achievable with all the discussion section assignments and extra credit through the post-exam opportunities. A little all over the place but a lot better compared to the other bio profs.

Class was not too difficult, just had a rough quarter. Def do the practice exams because a LOT of the questions came up on exams & review previous exams before the final. I emailed her about a late assignment asking for partial credit for peer responses, which I did ON TIME She didn't give me credit, which is very irritating. Lectures are recorded.