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 mRNA-seq.

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 including:

1. Happy-face spider genome assembly.
2. SNP development (with Illumina seq) for use in analyses of parentage and kin structure in tuco-tucos
3. Hippocampal transcriptomics in tuco-tucos