I am a NIH sponsored post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley with Michael Eisen.

I study the genomic underpinnings of physiologic water conservation (e.g., anuria) in desert-adapted rodents (especially Peromyscus) using RNAseq.

My dissertation research focused on the relationship between vaginal bacterial diversity, natural selection on immunogenes, and sexual behavior (Peromyscus).

See my Curriculum vitae for details.

In addition to this stuff, I'm working on several other projects. I'm going to try to put some info on my resarch page about each of these.

1. Genomics of functional anuria in desert adapted rodents
2. Social genomics of tuco tucos (Ctenomys sociabilis)
3. Investigating the genomics of the ‘winner effect’ in spiders (D. Elias, M. Kasumovic)
4. Tuco tuco genome project (with Broad Institute)
5. Historical demographics in tuco-tuco (E. Lacey, L. Hadley)
6. Happy face spider (Theridion grallator) genome project (R. Gillespie, P. Croucher)
7. Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio) genome project (C. Richards-Zawacki, M. Eisen, R. Nielsen)
8. SNP genotyping in the sage-sparrow (R. Bowie, C. Cicero)
9. Speciation in the western flycatcher (R. Bowie, A. Rush)
10. Construction of a multilocus Peromyscus phylogeny (back burner)
11. Phylogeography of P. eremicus and P. fraterculus in southern California (back burner)