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Research

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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

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2019-2025

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

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2022-2027

National Institutes of Health/

NIGMS

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R35: Structural variants and the locus of evolution

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2024-2029

National Institutes of Health/

NIA

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In collaboration with Dr. Stanislava Chtarbanova, University of Alabama

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Mechanisms underlying aged host-virus interactions

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