Education
Ph.D. Western Michigan University 2014
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
IPJ: Parasites and Wildlife Lectureship 2020
Blaustein Prestigious Fellow 2017
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar 2015
Research Interests
Parasite community dynamics across multiple scales
Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite systems
Disease Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Community Ecology
Selected Publications
Beta-diversity of ectoparasites at two spatial scales: nested hierarchy, geography and habitat type (2017) Oecologia 184: 507-520;
From individual heterogeneity to population-level overdispersion: Quantifying the relative roles of host exposure and parasite establishment in driving aggregated helminth distributions (2018) International Journal for Parasitology 48: 309-318;
Effects of maternal and grandmaternal flea infestation on offspring quality and quantity in a desert rodent: evidence for parasite-mediated transgenerational phenotypic plasticity (2019) International Journal for Parasitology 49: 81-488
