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Welcome! My research interests include the biology of paternal leakage, heteroplasmy of organellar genomes (particularly mitochondrial), fitness of heteroplasmic individuals, regions of the genome where heteroplasmy is most likely to be found, evolution of organellar genomes and cyto-nuclear interactions, co-evolution and conflict, among others.

NEWS:

  • 10/3/2019: I've successfully defended my dissertation! On the job hunt now. 

  • It's been great start to the new year!

    • 2/11/2019: Our work on the effect of Daucus carota native pollination has been accepted in Rhodora!

    • 1/31/2019: Our invited review on heteroplasmy in plants has been accepted in Annual Plant Reviews Online! This was a large amount of work, and we are really excited to see it in print.

    • 1/21/2019: The work with our collaborators has been accepted in Bioinformatics! This work involved creating a bioinformatic pipeline, called icHET, to screen entire organellar genomes for heteroplasmy. Keep an out for it.

  • 1/6/2019: I presented work on cytonuclear disequilibrium in wild carrot at SICB, and I had great discussions with some awesome researchers.

  • I've been matched with my first three Skype a Scientist interviews!

  • I became a contributing author to the news site ScienceTrends.

  • 1/1/2018: I've been selected to be co-chair of the Genetics Society of America Communication and Outreach Subcommittee for 2018-2019!

  • 1/28/2017: I was selected to serve as the Genetics Society of America Communication and Outreach Subcommitte Liaison for 2017-2018.

  • 10/18/2016: I successfully defended my prospectus and advanced to candidacy!

  • September 2016: Our research on crop-wild gene flow in carrot was published.

  • March 2016: Our research from my undergrad on the economy of pollen tube growth rates was published.

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