Research

There is a broad range of work happening in our lab but in general we use theoretical, computational, bioinformatic and comparative genomic approaches to address questions in evolution and genetics.
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I am an evolutionary biologist and much of my work investigates the influence of sex on genetic and genomic evolution using nematode worms as a model system. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the lab pursue their own research interests including field, wet lab and computational projects.
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For a complete list of publications see my Google Scholar here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c-gCijwAAAAJ&hl=en
Current Projects
2020-2025
National Science Foundation
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CAREER: Reproductive Mode and Horizontal Gene Transfer in
Nematode Worms: Training Early Career Researchers in Computational Evolutionary
Biology

2019-2023
National Science Foundation
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In collaboration with Dr. Jeff Lozier, University of Alabama
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Biogeographic variation in bumble bee cold tolerance: scaling from epigenotype to phenotype across levels of biological organization

2022-2027
National Institutes of Health
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R35: Structural variants and the locus of evolution
