As an evolutionary biologist, I am interested in the fundamental question of how the diversity of life we see around us in the natural world is generated and maintained. I address this question using two complementary approaches. First, asking what are the processes that drive genetic divergence between populations, ultimately resulting in speciation, and second, what are the processes that lead to the maintenance of genetic diversity within populations, facilitating response to future selection. For the first approach, I focus on understanding the role of cytonuclear co-evolution in driving genetic divergence and incompatibility between populations of the herb Campanula americana, and for the second I focus on how the interplay between ecology and reproductive polymorphism influences the maintenance of genetic diversity within populations of the model facultative parthenogen, Daphnia pulex. I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at James Madison University, where I am the Genomics Research Director and Education Coordinator.

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