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Our laboratory studies the genetic basis of adaptation and speciation using genomic analyses and field-based studies in the genus Aquilegia (Columbines).

The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.

Quantitative evolutionary genetics, mating system evolution, adaptation, pollination ecology, and floral evolution.

Macroevolution, phylogenetics, bioluminescence, vision, molecular evolution, complexity, marine organismal biology.

Plant-microbe evolution and ecology, microbial species diversity and taxonomy, evolution of symbiosis.

Mathematical theory of evolutionary and eco-evolutionary processes.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

Joy-centered pedagogy in biology education, equity-minded teacher professional development, epistemologies in STEM, accessible course-based research experiences, and all things fungal.

Distributional ecology and systematics of western North American and Australian amphibians and reptiles; ecology and systematics of monitor lizards; mechanics of intergrade zones and of speciational processes; crypsis; functional and evolutionary morphology; ethnozoology; conservation biology.

I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.

An evolutionary biologist using genomic and epigenomic tools to study regulatory evolution.