​I am a disease ecologist broadly interested in interactions between hosts, symbionts and their environment.  My research couples fieldwork and molecular approaches to examine the evolution of host-symbiont associations, test how parasite infection impacts host and microbiome function, and explore how disease dynamics change in human altered-landscapes.  As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah and Smithsonian Institution, my current projects focus on host-parasite-poison interactions in toxin feeding mammals. ​