PhD
During my PhD in the de Bivort Lab, I worked on behavior, genetics, and bioinformatics in D. melanogaster.
Publications
Genetic basis of offspring number and body weight variation in Drosophila melanogaster
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics. Genetic architecture of life-history traits in the DGRP.
Wild flies hedge their thermal preference bets in response to seasonal fluctuations
bioRxiv (preprint). Bet-hedging and thermal preference variability; thermal preference assays, persistence, plasticity, heritability, and life-history modeling. Code in bet-hedging project and variant calling pipeline repos.
The effect of environmental enrichment on behavioral variability depends on genotype, behavior, and type of enrichment
Journal of Experimental Biology. How environmental enrichment affects behavioral variability. Code in enrichment analysis repo.
The Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Virgin Egg Retention
Journal of Insect Science. Genetic basis of virgin egg retention in D. melanogaster.
Code repositories
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Bet-hedging project
R and MATLAB for thermal preference assays, persistence, plasticity, heritability, life-history modeling, and geographic bet-hedging advantage. Stan models and two-choice thermal preference rig design.
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Variant calling pipeline
BWA-MEM, Picard, GATK, vcftools (alignment, BAM processing, genotyping, VCF), plus Python and SnpEff for variant processing on individually sequenced D. melanogaster.
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Enrichment analysis
R and Stan scripts for the environmental enrichment and behavioral variability project (companion to JEB 2019).