| Sep 03, 2026 | I’m excited to share that I will be joining Dr. Nicole Dubilier’s Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. |
| Aug 16, 2026 | New Publication! Our publication, “Location and habitat specificity structure benthic microbial assemblages in a temperate seagrass ecosystem ” is now available at mSphere. |
| Aug 16, 2026 | Conference Presentations: Dr. Holly Bik and I are presenting our research on the nematode microbiome at ISME20 (August 16-21). I will be presenting my research, “Rapidly expanding the Tree of Life with novel MAGs recovered from single-specimen invertebrate microbiomes” at the Tree of Life session. |
| Aug 15, 2026 | New preprint! The third chapter of my dissertation, “Marine nematodes exhibit widespread symbiosis, novel chemoautotrophy, and evolutionary conservation of holobiont taxa” is now available on BioRxiv. |
| Jul 29, 2026 | New preprint! The second chapter of my dissertation, “MeioBIOME: A snakemake workflow for the parallel analysis of meiofaunal genomes and host-associated bacteria/archaea” is now available on BioRxiv. |
| Apr 21, 2026 | New Publication! The first chapter of my dissertation “Pseudoalteromonas is a symbiont of marine invertebrates that exhibits broad patterns of phylosymbiosis” has been published in The ISME Journal |
| Dec 13, 2025 | I’m excited to share that I will continue my research in the Bik Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate as I wrap up ongoing projects. |
| Nov 04, 2025 | Symposium Presentation: I presented my poster, “Marine nematodes exhibit novel symbiosis with predicted endosymbiotic lineages” at the New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium in Las Vegas. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | I successfully defended my dissertation, “Identification of novel nematode-associated symbionts by integrating pangenomic and single-specimen metagenomic datasets.” |
| Aug 22, 2025 | New preprint! My first-author paper “Pseudoalteromonas is a novel symbiont of marine invertebrates that exhibits broad patterns of phylosymbiosis” is now available on BioRxiv. |
| Jul 25, 2025 | New Genome Announcement! My first-author paper “Complete genome sequences of two Pseudoalteromonas undina strains isolated from a marine nematode (Oncholaimidae) collected at Tybee Island” has been published in Microbiology Resource Announcements. |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Conference Presentation: I presented a poster and rapid talk at the ASM Conference in Los Angeles, CA (June 19-23) on, “The metabolic diversity and evolution of invertebrate-associated Pseudoalteromonas” |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Symposium Presentation: I presented my poster, “Marine invertebrate-associated bacteria exhibit genomic evidence of nutritional mutualism” at the local IOB Symposium at UGA (April 18). |
| Mar 25, 2025 | New Publication! My first-author paper “Persistent gaps and errors in reference databases impede ecologically meaningful taxonomy assignments in 18S rRNA studies: a case study of terrestrial and marine nematodes” has been published in Environmental DNA |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Symposium Presentation: I presented my research, “The intricate history of host switching and codivergence of the bacterial genus Pseudoalteromonas and marine invertebrates” at the local EDGE Symposium at UGA (January 21). |