Welcome
I've been at the College of Charleston since 2005. My research is at the interface of ecology, evolution, genetics and conservation. I have worked on orchids, Arabidopsis thaliana, several Mimulus species, Brassica and Raphanus species, and Vitex rotundifolia. My work is in the field in native and nonnative ranges, in the greenhouse, in garden plots, and in the lab.
Recently, I have taught courses in the introductory sequence (Biology 211 and discussion), Plant Ecology (EVSS 628, BIO 628, BIO 444), Environmental Biology (EVSS 610). I maintain an active lab with undergraduate students majoring in biology or marine biology, masters students in the MES program, and masters students in the Marine Biology program.
Professional Experience
AB Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA 1994
Advisor: Aaron Ellison (now at Harvard Forest)
PhD Ecology, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 1999
Advisor: Carl Schlichting
Tropical Ecology: An Ecological Approach, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica — 95-03
Post Doc, Department of Botany and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN
Research with: Massimo Pigliucci (now at SUNY SB, soon to Lehman College)
Post Doc, Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park MD
Research with: Michele Dudash
Research Interests
Plant phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic integration
Evolvability and evolution of phenotypes
Costs of plasticity (NESCENT working group 2009)
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Ecological genetics of invasive species
Fragmentation of habitats and effects on plant reproductive ecology
Systems studied in lab: Arabidopsis thaliana, Mimulus guttatus and others, Vitex rotundifolia, Brassica and Raphanus species