I received my doctorate at the University of Missouri studying evolutionary genetics under Dr. Libby King in December 2022. My research focuses on the genetics of dispersal and starvation resistance in the common fruit fly, D. melanogaster. I develop and utilize open-source statistical pipelines to analyze and visualize large datasets of genomic data. I primarily code in R & python, and I have experience in several languages, including C++, Java, MATLAB, SQL and more. I also have experience in parallel computing via bash scripting and CUDA.
Education
University of Missouri-Columbia | Columbia, MO
PhD in Biological Sciences | December 2022
Drake University | Des Moines, IA
B.S. in Computer Science | May 2016
B.S. in Psychology | May 2016