Research
My research connects molecular and physiological mechanisms with the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape organisms in changing environments. Select a project to learn more.
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Parallel adaptation in threespine stickleback
Investigating the repeatability of adaptation across various axes of ecotypic divergence following post-glacial colonization.
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Mitonuclear introgression between Pacific stickleback species
Investigating how hybridization between Japan Sea and threespine sticklebacks reshapes interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.
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RepAdapt
A large collaborative comparative population genomics project testing patterns of repeated adaptation across more than 250 species.
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Gene-regulatory network evolution in plants
Studying evolutionary shifts in gene-regulatory network connectivity of orthologs across 100 species of plants
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Invasive tunicate population genomics
Using population genomic data to reconstruct invasion history, connectivity, and adaptive variation in a globally invasive tunicate.
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Cis-regulatory neural adaptation during marine-freshwater divergence in stickleback
Investigating cis-regulatory evolution at single-cell resolution during repeated marine-freshwater divergence in threespine stickleback.
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Diel transcriptomic dynamics in giant kelp
Exploring how gene expression changes across day–night cycles to illuminate the molecular rhythms underlying giant kelp physiology.
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Surfgrass responses to marine heatwaves
Investigating how marine heatwaves reshape gene expression in surfgrass and influence resilience to acute ocean warming.
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Thermal tolerance in an invasive tunicate
Exploring how geography, developmental plasticity, and population history shape responses to temperature.
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Host response to a body-snatching parasite
Using transcriptomics to test how invasion history shapes mud crab responses to infection by a parasitic barnacle.
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Mermithid-sandhopper phylogeography
Cophylogeography of a sandhopper and its mermithid parasite across New Zealand's South Island.
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Horsehair worm genetics
Assessing the genetic diversity of Nematomorpha in New Zealand.
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Zebrafish neurobiology and Brainbow
Combining transgenesis and live fluorescence imaging to trace cell lineages in the developing vertebrate brain.
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Landscape genetics of an amphibian metapopulation
Combining landscape genetics and eDNA to test how stream networks, local habitat, and landscape context shape functional connectivity in Dryophytes wrightorum.
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