Our research interests revolve around ecologcial and population genetics, where we strive to answer questions pertaining to genetic divergence and the maintenance, or lack thereof, of species boundaries. By studying closely related species which hybridize, we are able to assess the genetic, ecological, environmental, or behavioral barriers that may maintain those species, despite ongoing gene flow. Thus, out work combines population genetics, ecology, and bioinformatic tools to investigate pre- and post-mating barriers that influence reproductive isolation (speciation).

If you are interested in genetics, evolution, or bioinformatics (or any combination of those), and are looking to do research in those fields, please contact me! I am always looking for folks interested in working with me.

Lab News!

• Congratulations to Darian and Michel for defending their theses and graduating!! We are so incredibly proud, and I am am so thrilled to have played a small part in your journey!
• Alex gave a webinar to the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program and partners (March 2026) titled "A perspective of adaptations and hybridization: Eurasian watermilfoil within the Lake Champlain Basin" based on collaborative work with Darian, Dan Stich, and Caleigh Millette. Link here.
• Publication from my postdoc work was recently submitted to Molecular Ecology titled "On the causes of correlated genomica ncestry across contrasticng hybridization histories in a monkeyflower species pair" led by Matt Farnitano. Link here.