Postdoctoral Fellow -- Robin Hopkins' lab in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Speciation genomics, demographic modeling, and evolutionary ecology.

Member of the Eaton lab studying evolution in flowering plants. Working in phylogenomics and bioinformatics with a focus on speciation.

Using data from protected land parcels across Appalachia to 1) build predictive models explaining how abiotic parcel characteristics explain variation in ecological concepts of alpha, beta, and gamma diversity among the protected areas, and to 2) prioritize investments to maximize biodiversity coverage across selected parcels, using predictive models. Presented at NCUR 2016.

Plant/soil interactions. Lab tech work.

Studying the regulatory functions of chromatin structural proteins. - Familiar with basic lab techniques: PCR, immunostaining, RNAi, western blotting, Drosophila husbandry - Worked with two Ph.D. students and Dr. Mariano Labrador - Presented at 2014 University of Tennessee Undergraduate Research Symposium (http://www.ursautk.org/symposium/2014-presentations/)

Harvard Forest REU:With the Jonathan Thompson lab at Harvard Forest. The Thompson lab uses a variety of forest landscape models to predict how future disturbances could influence forest composition. I am conducting a sensitivity analysis of percentage-abundance outputs of different species from the new PnET-Succession of the widely-used LANDIS-II forest landscape model. The PnET-Succession extension takes a mechanistic approach to predicting growth under future climate scenarios.Presented at 2016 Harvard Forest Summer Research Symposium and 2016 NIMBioS Undergraduate Research Conference. One resulting publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Worked with Prof. Glenn Iason's research group on their ongoing chemical ecology research. The research group studies how environmental variation affects the ability of Scots Pines to defend themselves from invasive pests. Collected data from common garden experiments and for a pine lappet moth feeding experiment.