Lake coring in Michigan
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In a nutshell
I am a (plant) evolutionary ecologist who uses a lot of tools to study a lot of things: from using 1) ancient DNA from lake sediments and paleoecology to study Holocene forest diversity and mechanisms of genetic diversity emergence in trees, 2) population genetics and phylogeography to examine broad-scale genetic patterns due to species range shifts and human land-use impacts, to 3) metagenomics to investigate impacts of contemporary environmental disturbances on patterns and structures of plant-associated microbial communities, the plant microbiome.