Using landscape genetics and genomics to understand the evolutionary consequences of ecological change
I am a NSF Graduate Research Fellow working at Washington State University. My research focuses on understanding how ecological change such as disease emergence may influence evolutionary processes in host species and entire communities. By applying landscape genetics and landscape genomics tools to community genomic data, my work seeks to elucidate how variation in both the abiotic and biotic environment impact gene flow and adaptation. This research falls into the emerging field of "landscape community genomics," which stems from the intersection of landscape ecology, community ecology, and spatial population genomics.
