Image above: Fertile frond of the invasive climbing fern Lygodium microphyllum.
About
Welcome! I am currently a USDA NIFA postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Katrina Dlugosch at the University of Arizona. I am a plant evolutionary biologist with a keen interest in fern genomics, biodiversity, and molecular evolution. My research incorporates traditional botanical inquiry, comparative genomics, molecular biology, phylogenomics, and population genetics to address fundamental questions about plant evolution. I use field collections, high-throughput sequencing, and bioinformatics to answer questions about evolutionary processes on the population and genomic scales with a particular emphasis on ferns as a study lineage.
