I’m a PhD student in Greer Dolby’s lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where I study the genomic basis of speciation and adaptation in vertebrates. I am especially interested in how ecological pressures and evolutionary history shape the emergence of unique phenotypes across species and time.
I am currently working on a population genomics study of the Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri) examining adaptation and desert tortoise evolution and a multi-omics project on desert rattlesnakes asking how different populations respond to dehydration—and, ultimately, what it takes to “make” a drought phenotype. Broadly, I am motivated by questions about what makes species unique, how that uniqueness arises over time, and how to integrate different data types to address these questions.
Faculty Advisor: Greer Dolby