Broadly speaking, predation is the topic around which my research typically revolves. During my time as a graduate student, I explored these interactions at both behavioral and ecological levels. Working with undergraduates, I learned how prey detect and avoid being consumed by predators posing varying predation threats as well the ecological consequences of direct and indirect interactions between predators and their prey. At the University of Kentucky, I pursued my interests by incorporating molecular techniques to evaluate trophic connections between predators and prey. Since then, I have continued to dabble in research about invertebrate predators.

I am also interested in sensory ecology, cannibalism, sexual selection, and evolution. I would like to explore parental effects: how non-genetic contributions of parents influence their offspring. I have primarily worked with wolf spiders, but have also conducted collaborative research on fruit flies, collembolans, carabid and tenebrionid beetles, and cricket frogs. My undergraduate research experience focused on periodical cicadas and both intertidal and subtidal marine snails, and I spent some time working on whitefly mating behaviors.

HERE'S A LINK TO MY (potentially) CURRENT CV

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