Research/Areas of Interest
Meiotic drive is a phenomenon by which a selfish allele can promote its transmission or increase its chance of being inherited at the expense of alternative alleles. This process can incur fitness costs and is associated with sex ratio distortion and infertility. Using wild-derived inbred strains from geographically diverse backgrounds, I hope to understand how selfish alleles manipulate genetic architecture to promote their transmission and what features of the genome may hinder their transmission.
Education
BS, Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
MS, Toxicology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX