Marine Toxicology Lab

My research program studies how environmental or anthropogenic stressors adversely impact organism fitness, such as survival, growth, and reproduction. Research questions of great interest to me include:

1) understanding the structural underpinnings of transcriptional and biochemical networks that lend to susceptibility or robustness when perturbed.

2) studying the comparative mechanisms of organismal adaptive potential under stress.

3) developing and applying integrative methods to unite the multiple levels of biological complexity, to predict adverse effects from initiating events at the molecular level, to organismal and ecological levels.

Ultimately, these questions will contribute to a mechanistic understanding of adverse outcomes given targeted biomarker information and help to identify species susceptible to changing environmental conditions.