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

Research Educator for Biodiversity Stream, Freshman Research Initiative

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

Theoretical and empirical plant ecology; Role of plant communities in the global carbon cycle

Plant-microbe interactions, community ecology, ecosystem ecology

Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and systematics

Plant molecular evolution, comparative genomics, plant systematics

Theoretical and computational ecology, landscapes and conservation

Population genetics and genomics, evolutionary theory

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

Insect and bacterial genomics and evolution, Symbiosis

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

Evolutionary Ecology, Community Ecology

Host-parasite-microbe interactions, invasive species