Introduction

About me

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) working with Dr. Kayla King. I am studying how shifting climate can interact with multiple disease interactions simultaneously – altering host-parasite and parasite-parasite interactions during coinfection.

Research interests

My research is focused on fundamental questions about host-parasite interactions, with broader interest across symbioses. Parasitism (and other symbioses) can generate strong selection pressures that shape proximate mechanisms to ultimate outcomes.

How do such interactions arise, persist, and change? What are the consequential drivers of variation in disease outcomes among: environment, host, parasite, and community interactions within or between hosts? See more in Research

Background

I have gone from a field ecology undergraduate to a molecular and cellular biology master’s to a PhD that brought together a bit of both and added computational approaches. Throughout, I have been motivated by a love for the natural world – and over time developed a global prespective on doing science and homed in on timely questions in ecology and evolution. See more in CV or the interactive Career Map. You can also check my stances on academic Ethics and get an idea of how I spend some of my freetime on Personal.