What happens when we take a well-understood ecological system, like a simple community of interacting species, and drop it into a more complex landscape of interconnected communities? What if we instead allow each species to evolve traits in response to one another? These types of interactions across biological and spatial scales can fundamentally alter ecological and evolutionary dynamics. My research addresses such questions using a combination of data-intensive empirical methods (e.g., experiments, genomics) and mathematical models based on specific biology, primarily in insect systems.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease where I work with Megan Greischar, Tory Hendry, and Andrew Hein.