About
Research
Evolutionary biology with an interest in molecular population genetics and phylogenetics.
I’m particularly jazzed by how spatial and temporal structure impacts coalescence, and together how these may influence phylogenetic inference. Population structure and fluctuating effective population sizes also impact the efficiency of selection; in this context, I’m interested in the proliferation of repetitive non-coding elements in large eukaryotic genomes and the applicability of the mutation-hazard hypothesis to explain the observed discrepancy between organismal complexity and genome size. Finally, I have a broad interest in invertebrate systematics and biogeography, in particular how different dispersal modes impact population density, local relatedness, and the spatial pedigree.
Areas of Research
- Evolutionary Biology
- Population Genetics
- Molecular Evolution
- Phylogenetics
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