Overview

My research couples phenotypic and ecological data with various ‘omics technologies to quantify how environmental variation, both natural and anthropogenic, shape the spatial distribution of genetic, phenotypic, and bio- diversity. Hence, my work integrates controlled lab experiments, quantitative field studies, genomics, and computational biology. I am particularly interested in understanding how genetic diversity and the genomic architecture of complex phenotypes interact with demography and selection to alter the rate of phenotypic evolution. While my current focus is on the northern two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata) and the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias mamoratus), I do not restrict myself to any particular taxonomic group, and I have worked on a diversity of organisms (e.g., Naegleria fowleri, Gasterosteus aculeatus, Lycorma delicatula).