Experience

National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jun 2012 - Present

  I am interested in plant responses to climate change.I am currently using goldenrod populations in the Alps to address the following questions:1) Is increased connectivity (eg. road density, human movement) correlated with higher genetic diversity in this invasive plant?2) Does higher genetic diversity lead to higher individual fitness or population performance under either current or altered environmental conditions?3) Have these introduced populations become locally adapted and, if so, what are the implications for their responses to environmental change? Show less

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2010 - May 2012

  My research here involved using data from the AspenFACE experiment to investigate:1) Whether elevated CO2 and/or ozone can exert a selective effect on woody plants over short time scales2) What effect the resulting shifts in the genotypic composition of plant populations may have on insect population dynamics



Duke University

• Durham, North Carolina

• Teaching Assistant

  • 2007 - 2009

  Courses: - Biodiversity Science and Applications (Graduate) - Ecology and Evolution (Undergrad Majors) - Dinosaur Biology (Undergrad non-Majors) - Models for Ecological Data (Graduate) Courses: - Biodiversity Science and Applications (Graduate) - Ecology and Evolution (Undergrad Majors) - Dinosaur Biology (Undergrad non-Majors) - Models for Ecological Data (Graduate)



Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History

• Intern

  • 2004 - 2004

  Undergraduate research project: 'A Morphological Revision of the Genus Erato DC (Compositae: Liabeae)' Undergraduate research project: 'A Morphological Revision of the Genus Erato DC (Compositae: Liabeae)'