Postdoctoral fellow
I am a plant and fungal biologist interested in understanding how climate change shapes populations and communities. My research uses a variety of approaches, including evolutionary genomics, field ecology, and historical collections, to determine the impacts of climate change on plants and fungal microbes across spatial scales. I received my PhD at the University of Georgia, where I used wild yeast as a model to study the phylogeography and species range limits of forest fungi. As a postdoctoral scholar in the Daru Lab, I study seagrass-fungal endophyte associations from herbarium specimens and from new field surveys along the Pacific Coast of North America to determine how fungal community assemblages change through space and time. Equally important to me is creating inclusive scientific spaces, and I am enthusiastic about fostering community among underrepresented people in science.