My pronouns are he/him
I am interested in understanding host-parasite-environment interactions and evolution. Organisms in the wild are subject to changing and stressful environments, especially in the context of warming and global climate change. Simultaneously, biotic factors such as infection and disease are major evolutionary forces that shape an organism’s fate. Hosts are often infected by multiple parasite species at once in nature, which can alter outcomes for both host and parasites compared to single-infections. Using a laboratory model system, I seek to integrate aspects of thermal stress, co-infecting parasites, and experimental evolution to make better real-world predictions of disease outcomes in a heterogenous and changing world. In addition to phenotypic assays, I use genomics and transcriptomics techniques to build hypotheses on the mechanisms underlying these host-parasite interactions.
