I am a computational biologist at Barnwell Bio, where I use environmental biosurveillance and metagenomics to improve animal health. I came to this work through a decade of microbiome and metagenomics research, including an NSF postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jason Stajich at the University of California, Riverside.
Dissertation Research
For my dissertation with Dr. Jonathan Eisen at the University of California, Davis, I investigated the taxonomic diversity of seagrass-associated bacteria (aka the seagrass microbiome) and fungi (aka the seagrass mycobiome).
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Environmental biosurveillance in commercial poultry
Our review, "Beyond clinical signs: the case for continuous environmental biosurveillance in commercial poultry production", is now published in Poultry Science.
Metagenomic insight into seagrass-associated fungi
Our paper, "Eukaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes recovered from deep metagenomic sequencing of the seagrass, Zostera marina, include a novel chytrid in the order Lobulomycetales", is published in Microbial Genomics.
Unravelling the evolutionary patterns of symbiosis
Our latest work, "Assessing the Evolutionary Trajectory of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Conserved Genes in Seagrasses and Aquatic Close Relatives" is out in Aquatic Botany.