Education History

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Sonoma State University 1989

Masters of Arts, Major in Marine Biology

Minor in Aquatic Biology

University of Hawaii, Botany Dept. 1998

Ph.D, Major in Botany

Minor in Evolutionary Biology

Publications

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Collaborator • 2012

Genetic signatures of a demographic collapse in a large-bodied forest dwelling primate (Mandrillus leucophaeus)

Research Paper, Ecology and Evolution

Co-Authored with Ting, N., Astaras, C., Hearn, G., Honarvar, S., Corush, J., Burrell, A. S., Phillips, N., Morgan, B. J., Gadsby, E. L., Raaum, R., Roos, C

Lead author

Nuclear DNA content estimates in brown algae (Phaeophyta)

Research Paper, AoB Plants

Co-Authored with Kapraun, D. F., Garreta, A., Siguan, A., Rull, J. L., Soler, N., Lewis, R. & Kawai, H.

Lead author

Spontaneous mutational and standing genetic (co)variation at dinucleotide microsatelittes in Caenorhabditis briggsae and C. elegans

Research Paper, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Co-Authored with Salomon, M., Custer, A., Ostrow, D., & Baer, C.

Lead author • 2008

Genomic insights into evolutionary relationships among heterokont lineages emphasizing the Phaeophyceae

Research Paper, Journal of Phycology

Co-Authored with Calhoun, S., Moustafa, A., Bhattacharya, D. & Braun, E.

Lead author • 2008

Resolving evolutionary relationships among the brown algae using chloroplast and nuclear genes.

Research Paper, Journal of Phycology

Co-Authored with Burrowes, R., Rousseau, F., Reviers B. de, & Saunders, G.