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.

My goal is to have an impact in bats' conservation through investigating their physiological, morphological and behavioral plasticity.

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

I'm currently studying bacterial plasmids. My projects aim to understand under what conditions vertical or horizontal transfer is favored and to identify bacterial genes that affect plasmid carriage.

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 mapping out the biodiversity of early mammals by examining the diversity dynamics of Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mammals in north-central Montana.

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

I aim to study death-related social behaviors and dynamics in annually eusocial bumblebees.