I graduated with a B.S. in Animal Sciences and a minor in Integrative Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. As an undergrad, I was involved in undergraduate research in the Flaws Lab. Through the Flaws Lab, I participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Toxicology (SURE Tox) program, where I studied the effects of phthalates on female mammalian reproduction.
After graduation, I worked as a field ecologist for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). At NEON, I completed field-based protocols that broadly examined the effects of disease, climate change, and land use on ecosystems in Kansas. During this field work, I developed interests in how environmental factors affect vertebrates and invertebrates.
During the Summer of 2019, I completed my first field season with the Knutie Lab at Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories. I helped lead a project in which we investigated the links between microbiota and host defenses in nest-box parasite-bird systems. In the Summer of 2020, I investigate brood genetic diversity and it effects on nest parasites.
American Society of Mammologists 98th Annual Meeting Small mammal, vector, and pathogen data collection in the National Ecological Observatory Network National Ecological Observatory Network Domain 06 Poster Presentation, June 2018
Society of Toxicology 56th Annual Meeting Gestational exposure to a phthalate mixture affects folliculogenesis and steroidogenesis in female mice University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Poster Presentation, March 2017