Vita
2024 – today
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Germany
2020 – 2024
PhD candidate at Australian Centre of Ecogenomics, University of Queensland
2015 – 2019
BSc in Biology with an emphasis in Marine Biology, San Diego State University
Research Interests
Coral reef microbial ecology, animal-microbe symbiosis, networks
Project within the HIPP cohort (call 2024)
My project focuses on interrogating the crustose coralline algae host-microbial symbiosis and to characterize how this relationship changes in response to changing environmental conditions. I am also interested in creating functional profiles of crustose coralline microbiomes and assessing how coral larval settlement changes when I manipulate the crustose coralline algae microbial communities.