Education
University of Denver, 2017-2019
University of Denver, 2017-2019
- MS in Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- BS in Biology
- Minors in Mathematics, Chemistry, GISc, and French
Research
During the four years of my undergraduate research career at DU, I was mentored by PhD candidate and my good friend, Whitley Lehto, and assisted her in investigating the influence of ecological stressors on threespine stickleback parental behavior and the resulting affects on offspring reproduction. Through this work, I established a conceptual and technical framework in the evolutionary developmental biology of behavioral phenotypes.
In my work as a graduate student, I used sequence based genotyping, also known as double digest RAD Sequencing (ddRAD-Seq), to quantify genome-wide divergence among populations of threespine sticklebacks. In locations along the Pacific coast of North America, the threespine stickleback provides a model system to examine the role of genetic isolation in speciation due to a repeated evolutionary loss of the iconic red throat male mating signal and a shift in nuptial coloration from red to black.
Click on the News tab to see what I have been up to or visit me in the field to experience the wild side of being a scientist! Check out Whitley's website to learn more about her awesome research on threespine sticklebacks and the Tinghitella Lab website to see what our incredible team is working on at DU!
During the four years of my undergraduate research career at DU, I was mentored by PhD candidate and my good friend, Whitley Lehto, and assisted her in investigating the influence of ecological stressors on threespine stickleback parental behavior and the resulting affects on offspring reproduction. Through this work, I established a conceptual and technical framework in the evolutionary developmental biology of behavioral phenotypes.
In my work as a graduate student, I used sequence based genotyping, also known as double digest RAD Sequencing (ddRAD-Seq), to quantify genome-wide divergence among populations of threespine sticklebacks. In locations along the Pacific coast of North America, the threespine stickleback provides a model system to examine the role of genetic isolation in speciation due to a repeated evolutionary loss of the iconic red throat male mating signal and a shift in nuptial coloration from red to black.
Click on the News tab to see what I have been up to or visit me in the field to experience the wild side of being a scientist! Check out Whitley's website to learn more about her awesome research on threespine sticklebacks and the Tinghitella Lab website to see what our incredible team is working on at DU!