Overview

My research integrates across disciplines to interrogate the fundamental processes that drive how biological systems respond to novelty across scales. How organisms respond to novel conditions is fundamentally shaped by the structure of their genomes, but the rules governing how genome organization drives these responses remain unclear. Using a diversity of non-model systems, I investigate how genome architecture dictates evolutionary responses to novelty — from the molecular mechanisms that generate phenotypic variation to the evolutionary and ecological processes that shape it across populations and lineages.