I’m an evolutionary biologist and am interested in the evolution of species interactions and how they affect the outcome of infectious disease dynamics. I am specifically interested in how different disease control strategies affect the evolution of host-pathogen interactions, including the use of protective microbes.
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I carried out my PhD at the University of Oxford with Prof. Kayla King and Prof. Stu West on pathogen-defensive mutualist coevolution. Here, I utilised the model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans to do this.
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I then carried out a postdoctoral research position with Prof. Elizabeth McGraw which started at Monash University, Australia and and finished at Penn State University, USA following a group move. Here, I studied the evolutionary stability of Wolbachia protection against the dengue virus in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
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Currently I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, measuring how protective symbionts can alter the immune response of a host towards pathogenic infection.
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