About me - UNDEr construction
I am an assistant professor of disease ecology at Kennesaw State University. My research program explores the ecology and biogeography of parasitic diseases of wildlife. I collect data on parasitic infections from literature sources, field collections, and natural history collections to model testable predictions of large scale biodiversity patterns of parasites and their biologically-relevant potential drivers.
I was a Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 2021 to 2022. I documented the parasite fauna of deep sea and benthic fish species, and I contributed specimens to the Invertebrate Zoology collections.
I was a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington from 2019 to 2021. I explored temporal trends of parasite diversity in fish from Puget Sound over the past 130 years. I investigate how parasite diversity, abundance, and community composition changed over time and how fish abundance, temperature, and pollution may have impacted these long term trends.
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I graduated with my PhD from Texas A&M University in August 2019. There, I investigated latitudinal gradients of parasite diversity. I collected rodents and their parasites from six field sites across North and Central America, and analyzed relationships between parasite diversity and latitude, climate, host characteristics, and changes in community composition.
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