​I am a postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Ryan Baugh at Duke University.

I work at the intersection of evolution, ecology, and development. I study the process through which an organism’s environment and genes interact to shape its traits – phenotypic plasticity.
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I use a combination of laboratory experiments and field observations to better understand when, how, and why plasticity occurs and how this impacts the ecology and evolution of organisms. I have worked with a variety of organisms well suited to answer these questions – mud snails, spadefoot toads, rotifers, and nematodes. This work helps us better understand how evolution works and how organisms may respond to a rapidly changing world.