University of Arizona

Department of Ecology and evolutionary biology

Something scenicI am a Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Rick Michod and Régis Ferrière. I am interested in evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) generally, and specifically in the transition from unicellular to differentiated multicellular life in the volvocine green algae. My research incorporates theoretical, empirical, and comparative approaches to explore the selective pressures that may have driven this transition.


updates

Chlamy song! (06/29/08)

I have reworked the online version of my cv...please let me know if you find any bad links (06/19/08).

Abstracts for Chlamy 2008 are online (04/02/08).

Applications for summer internships for high school biology teachers in the Michod Lab are available here (03/05/08).

Added a few new pics of Pleodorina starrii to the micrographs page. Thanks to Nancy Moran for the use of her scope and to Patrick Degnan for showing me how to use it (01/20/08).

The new Evolution article is available as 'online early' (01/13/08).

The National Academies Press has released a new, free (online) book (01/05/08):

 
Read this FREE online!

 
Artificial selection on Pleodorina starrii is finally up and running (12/06/07).

The new Evolution article is available as 'online accepted' (11/19/07).


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