Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
My lab is interested in understanding how genetics, cell physiology, ecology and evolution interact across spatial scales ranging from molecules to ecosystems to shape patterns of biocomplexity, biodiversity, and organismal design.
Current projects in the lab include investigating how competitors evolve into cooperators, how population structure and sex effect the maintenance of biocomplexity and biodiversity, how ecologically stable communities evolve over time, and how organisms can engineer their environments to modify the strength and direction of natural selection.