Life finds a way

Indeed! How nature works is amazing! As an evolutionary biologist, I am broadly interested in studying how populations adapt across different ecological clines and variable environments. At the molecular level, I focus on studying the evolution of gene expression and how cis-and trans-regulation can play key roles in adaptation. In my dissertation research, I combined various quantitative genetics, population genomic and functional genomic approces to study the genetics and molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic divergence in Panicum grasses. Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wittkopp Lab. In general,our lab investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution. By leveraging from the existing resources of natural and artificial regulatory variants in yeast, I study the effects of these mutations on expression plasticity and fitness in response to environmental heterogeneity.

Other than doing science, I also love sketching, reciting poetry, and hicking. Here are some of my sketches: