My research interests are broadly focused on understanding the interactions between genetic variation and physiological responses to the environment. Currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Annalise Paaby's lab at the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, where I am helping to develop a bioinformatics pipeline for investigating RNA secondary structure in the nematode C. elegans. I'm excited to work on such a well-described model species, while also broadening my coding skills and expanding my background on different modes of functionally relevant molecular variation (who knew that RNA did so much more than translate into proteins??)
Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, where I was a member of Cathy Pfister's lab. For my dissertation, I used 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. You can watch my dissertation defense here!
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.
I consider myself very fortunate to have benefited from an early exposure to science, enthusiastic support systems, and strong female academic mentors. Many people are not afforded these advantages, so I strive to improve accessibility to science and science careers while promoting environmental stewardship. Some organizations I've worked with include Project Exploration's Sisters4Science, KICP's Life Long Learning program, and the University of Miami's Ocean Kids program.
When not playing with oyster (and now nematode!) genes, I enjoy running, yoga, reading sci-fi/fantasy, ceramics, and identifying species with my husband.
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Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, where I was a member of Cathy Pfister's lab. For my dissertation, I used 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. You can watch my dissertation defense here!
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.
I consider myself very fortunate to have benefited from an early exposure to science, enthusiastic support systems, and strong female academic mentors. Many people are not afforded these advantages, so I strive to improve accessibility to science and science careers while promoting environmental stewardship. Some organizations I've worked with include Project Exploration's Sisters4Science, KICP's Life Long Learning program, and the University of Miami's Ocean Kids program.
When not playing with oyster (and now nematode!) genes, I enjoy running, yoga, reading sci-fi/fantasy, ceramics, and identifying species with my husband.
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