RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Evolutionary history of pearl oysters and their allies (Bivalvia: Pteriidae)

EDUCATION:

Sep 2002 - present: American Museum of Natural History / New York University

Sep 2000 - Sep 2002: New York University (PhD candidate)

1994 - 1998: Columbia University (BS Biology)

RELATED (and not so related) EXPERIENCE:
Related (and not so related) experience:

May 2000 - May 2001 Molecular Systematics of Rhabditidae (Nematoda); Fitch Lab, Dept. of Biology, NYU

Jan 2000 - May 2001 Molecular mechanism of evolution of anterior patterning in higher Diptera; Graduate internship; Desplan Lab, Dept. ob Biology, NYU

Sep 2000 - Jan 2001 Applications of genomics for phylogenetic analysis of Drosophilidae; Graduate internship; DeSalle Lab, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, AMNH

Jan 1997 - Sep 2000 Cloning and characterizing genes involved in vulval morphogenesis during development of Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda: Rhabditidae); Research assistant; Greenwald Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Summer 96 Identifying genes involved in germ line development in Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda: Rhabditidae); Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Greenwald Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute