Shedding light on mobile protein signaling mechanisms that are induced by environmental signals and translated into developmental responses.

I study the evolution of crocodile-line archosaurs and their evolutionary convergence with early dinosaurs.

To uncover how the mechanics of the inner ears aids directional hearing in fishes.

Develop a greater understanding of the molecular basis of genetic regulation in plants that underlies plant development and responses to pathogens.

Develop multidisciplinary methods for the calibration, analysis, and understanding of biological agent-based models.

Plant immune responses to herbivores and their regulation by the circadian clock

Functional morphology, biomechanics, morphological evolution

Understand how organisms change their allocation of energetic resources as environmental conditions change.

I am studying how Pacific Northwest climate and plant communities responded to a global warming event in Earth's past.

I am mapping out the biodiversity of early mammals through their diversity dynamics.

Tropical hummingbird ecology and foraging patterns

Analysis of beaked animals in the fossil record

Landscape evolution through paleobotany and isotopic analyses, spread of grasslands in the Neotropics and biological implications