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I provide bioinformatic support to life science researchers, especially in data analysis and visualization. I am a specialist in the intersection of population genetics and phylogenetics and have programming expertise in R, Java, and python. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Arizona studying phyloinformatics, then spent five years at Yale University as a bioinformatic and molecular biology post-doc, where I developed open-source bioinformatic software packages. I then went on to a post-doctoral position at Oregon State University, where I continued developing bioinformatic software and platforms for genomic data management. You can find my publications on Google Scholar and PubMed.Show Less
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Grants
- Data and Community Science - Getting Minoritized Undergraduates into the Field of Data Science for Public Interest
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$90.0K
Active - Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Building Capacity in Data Science through Biodiversity, Conservation, and General Education
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.0M
Active - Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Building Capacity in Data Science through Biodiversity, Conservation, and General Education
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$173.4K
Active - Using Newspapers as Data for Collaborative Pedagogy: A Multidisciplinary Interrogation of the Borderlands in Undergraduate Classrooms
Key Personnel (KP)
2020
$50.0K
News
- A Tasty Florida Butterfly Turns Sour
2019
- The Butterfly Effect and the Future of Teaching Biology
2018
- Citizen Science Program Has a Research Payoff
2018
- Newly Discovered Protein Function Linked to Breast Cancer
2010
Publications (55)
Recent
- swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder: Software Carpentry: R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis 2023-05
2023
- carpentries/instructor-training: The Carpentries Instructor Training Februrary 2023
2023
- Botanical Gardens Are Local Hotspots for Urban Butterflies in Arid Environments
2022
- The Data Visualization Roadshow: A data visualization session provided by an academic library
2022
- Restoring Palmer’s agave in a Lehmann lovegrass dominated grassland in Southeastern Arizona
2022
- Undergraduate data science degrees emphasize computer science and statistics but fall short in ethics training and domain-specific context
2021
- Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West
2021
- Is Phylogeographic Congruence Predicted by Historical Habitat Stability, or Ecological Co-associations?
2021
- Data Science Support through Graduate Fellowship Programs
2020
- Origin of the mechanism of phenotypic plasticity in satyrid butterfly eyespots
2020
- Author response: Origin of the mechanism of phenotypic plasticity in satyrid butterfly eyespots
2019
- Creating the Urban Farmer's Almanac with Citizen Science Data
2019
- Data Science Support at the Academic Library
2019
- Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly
2019
- BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
2018
- Genomic data indicate ubiquitous evolutionary distinctiveness among populations of California metalmark butterflies
2018
- NovoGraph: Human genome graph construction from multiple long-read de novo assemblies
2018
- Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics
2018
- Comparisons of Citizen Science Data-Gathering Approaches to Evaluate Urban Butterfly Diversity
2018
- Step-wise evolution of temperature-mediated phenotypic plasticity in eyespot size across nymphalid butterflies
2018
- Corrigendum to A Survey of Eyespot Sexual Dimorphism across Nymphalid Butterflies .
2017
- eButterfly: leveraging massive online citizen science for butterfly conservation
2017
- Bioinformatic training needs at a health sciences campus
2017
- Strong spatial-genetic congruence between a wood-feeding cockroach and its bacterial endosymbiont, across a topographically complex landscape
2017
- Manifestations of Metadata Structures in Research Datasets and Their Ontic Implications
2017
- Nymphalid eyespots are co-opted to novel wing locations following a similar pattern in independent lineages
2015
- The struggle for safety: effectiveness of caterpillar defenses against bird predation
2015
- Nymphalid eyespot serial homologues originate as a few individualized modules
2014
- Multigene phylogenetic synthesis for 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 312 genera and 66 families of the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota)
2014
- A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families
2014
- A Survey of Eyespot Sexual Dimorphism across Nymphalid Butterflies
2013
- Package ‘corHMM’
2013
- Microevolutionary processes generate phylogenomic discordance at ancient divergences
2013
- Temporal Gene Expression Variation Associated with Eyespot Size Plasticity in Bicyclus anynana
2013
- Distal-Less Regulates Eyespot Patterns and Melanization in Bicyclus Butterflies
2013
- A Single Origin for Nymphalid Butterfly Eyespots Followed by Widespread Loss of Associated Gene Expression
2012
- On the origins of sexual dimorphism in butterflies
2011
- Integrating fossil preservation biases in the selection of calibrations for molecular divergence time estimation
2011
- Evolution of influence: signaling in a lycaenid-ant interaction
2011
- Evolutionary reduction of the first thoracic limb in butterflies
2011
- Are mimics monophyletic? The necessity of phylogenetic hypothesis tests in character evolution
2010
- Accommodating natural and sexual selection in butterfly wing pattern evolution
2009
- AUGIST: inferring species trees while accommodating gene tree uncertainty
2008
- Once a Batesian mimic, not always a Batesian mimic: mimic reverts back to ancestral phenotype when the model is absent
2008
- Genetic isolation and cryptic variation within the Lycaena xanthoides species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
2007
- Parasitism rates in larval Lycaena xanthoides (Godart)(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and a new host record for Cotesia theclae (Riley)(Hymenoptera: Braconidae).
2007
- The signal environment is more important than diet or chemical specialization in the evolution of warning coloration
2007
- Boulder County Open Space butterfly diversity and abundance
2006
- Boulder County Open Space Butterfly Diversity and Abundance: Ecological Archives E087-061
2006
- Population genetic effects of human-mediated plant range expansions on native phytophagous insects
2006
- Soil nutrient effects on oviposition preference, larval performance, and chemical defense of a specialist insect herbivore
2005
- The molecular phylogenetics of endangerment: cryptic variation and historical phylogeography of the California tiger salamander, Ambystoma californiense
2004
- Species boundaries, phylogeography and conservation genetics of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora/draytonii) complex
2004
- Candidate gene analysis of metamorphic timing in ambystomatid salamanders
2003
- Effects of local habitat characteristics and landscape context on grassland butterfly diversity
2003