Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences, Ohio University
I am an evolutionary biologist broadly interested in how the interaction between environmental setting and species-specific traits condition their evolutionary paths. In particular, my research investigates species evolutionary responses to environmental heterogeneity and change, and how these responses influence the generation and maintenance of biological diversity.
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My main study areas include:
Under this common framework, my research integrates bioinformatics, population genetics, statistical phylogeography, morphology and morphometrics, and ecological niche modeling to uncover species' evolutionary histories. In my work, I combine explicit spatial analyses with analyses of molecular data from Sanger and Next-Generation sequencing to assess how taxon-specific ecologies and geographic setting influence species’ evolutionary responses and how landscape fragmentation and availability of long-term corridors structure genetic diversity at various spatial and temporal scales. My study systems and methodological approaches are widespread, and include some novel analytical tools I have developed (available here) to accommodate natural-wold complexity into genomic inference. |