Biography
I received a B.A. in Biology from Bethany College (KS) in 2011 where I was an Academic All-American and All-Conference in football. I then received my Ph.D. in Biology from Florida State University in 2016 where I studied venom evolution with Dr. Darin Rokyta. I was then a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University where I studied Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) with Dr. Andrew Storfer until 2018. After Washington State University, I moved to Clemson University and was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Chris Parkinson where I focused on snake genomics and venom evolution. I then moved to Harvard University as the Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology where, with Dr. Michael Desai, I studied how multiple mutations affect tumor growth and transmission in DFTD. I was at Harvard University until I joined the faculty at the University of South Florida in Fall 2020.
