I’m currently a researcher at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT USA. My focus is astrobiology and I study microbial evolution and microbial communities in extreme environments using computational methods. My graduate research took place at the University of Florida with Dr. Jamie S. Foster at the Space Life Sciences Lab. I worked on molecular characterization of microbialites in Highbourne Cay, The Bahamas. After that, I postdoc’d in Dr. J. Peter Gogarten’s lab at the University of Connecticut working on evolution of microbial communities in hypersaline environments.
