My research interests are in oil toxicology and host-microbe interactions. Currently, I’m researching how crude oil impacts the community structure of the host gut microbiota and how changes in the microbiota modulate the host response to crude oil exposure in threespine stickleback in Dr. Brandon Briggs laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I’m also co-advised by Dr. Mary Beth Leigh at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Dr. Kathryn Milligan-Myhre at the University of Connecticut.
My research study area is within the lands of the Dena’ina people.
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