graduate student

Microbial experimental evolution and synthetic biology

Evolution of genetic diversity within and between populations; ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions and immunology

Genomic and Epigenetic Bases of Polyploidy and Hybrid Vigor

Evolution of Conspicuous Signals. Mechanisms of Crypsis. Neural Mechanisms of Mate Choice.

Computational Molecular Biology and Evolution of RNA

I am an evolutionary botanist; I study how plants are related to one another, and how various traits have evolved in certain lineages.

Transcriptional plasticity in the mouse hippocampus

Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and systematics

Neuromolecular and genomic basis of social behavior and its evolution

Plant molecular evolution, comparative genomics, plant systematics

Population genetics and genomics, evolutionary theory

I'm interested in using molecular systematics and population genomics to address evolutionary questions in reptiles and amphibians.

Ecological genomics of reef-building corals

Mechanisms of phage infection and genome ejection in vivo; phage evolutionary genetics and applications of phage

Insect and bacterial genomics and evolution, Symbiosis

Keywords: ecology, evolution, biodiversity, plant-insect interactions, natural product chemistry, Coleoptera

contact network epidemiology and gut microbiome composition in wild lemurs

Evolutionary Ecology, Community Ecology

Host-parasite-microbe interactions, invasive species

Department Chair of Integrative Biology. Computational evolutionary biology, Molecular evolution, Virus evolution.