Bio:I'm a postdoc in the lab of Karin Pfennig at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research centers on the interplay of natural and sexual selection, especially with regard to the roles of mate choice and phenotypic plasticity in adaptation variable environments. I do fieldwork in the lovely Chihuahuan Desert (banner pic above) using Mexican spadefoot toads as a model system to investigate when, where, and how plasticity in sexual and ecological traits can facilitate adaptive responses to selection. In addition, I work on North Carolina taxa like eastern spadefoot toads, green tree frogs, gray tree frogs, and others. Amphibians offer unique opportunities to study adaptive evolution and its influences across life stages and ecosystems.
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