I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and a member of Cathy Pfister's lab. I am broadly interested in understanding how evolutionary processes, such as local adaptation, play out in marine systems. For my dissertation, I am using reduced-representation sequencing, transcriptomics, and mesocosm experiments to study the population structure of the Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida) and assess its adaptive potential in response to ocean acidification. Apart from developing this species as a new 'model' system for understanding the genomics of local adaptation in the face of gene flow, this work has significant implications for ongoing efforts to restore the Olympia oyster across its native range on the west coast of North America. I collaborate often with Steven Roberts' lab at the University of Washington and Puget Sound Restoration Fund at the K. K. Chew for Shellfish Research and Restoration.
Improving open data access, reproducibility, and transparency in science is important to me, so I strive to publish primarily in open-access journals, host reproducible coding notebooks for published and ongoing work at my GitHub, and provide links to recent presentations and successful grant proposals on my CV.
When not playing with oysters (or their genes), I enjoy reading sci-fi/fantasy, ceramics, running, and identifying species with my husband.
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Improving open data access, reproducibility, and transparency in science is important to me, so I strive to publish primarily in open-access journals, host reproducible coding notebooks for published and ongoing work at my GitHub, and provide links to recent presentations and successful grant proposals on my CV.
When not playing with oysters (or their genes), I enjoy reading sci-fi/fantasy, ceramics, running, and identifying species with my husband.
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