Research

I am an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in environmental impacts on sex differences and life history trade offs. Work in the lab focuses on insects with a combination of field and lab experiments. Current experimental systems include mosquitoes, dance flies (empids), notonectids and dragonflies. I completed my PhD in Luc Bussiere’s lab thinking about questions related to resource allocation and sexual selection in dance flies. I did my post-doctoral work in Toronto working jointly with Shannon McCauley and Locke Rowe studying how environmental stressors (e.g. food availability, salinity, predation/cannibalism risk) influence life history trade-offs associated with behaviour and immunity. To see current and upcoming work in the lab check out the publications page.

Research and Lab photos from Scotland and Canada