Thanking you for visiting the HAP-E Lab! I am the Assistant Curator of Herpetology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. I completed my dissertation work at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science focused on systematics, biogeography, and evolution in snakes of the Pacific, specifically New Guinea. Before that, I was trained in parasitic flatworm taxonomy at Auburn University, working on cryptic diversity within the blood flukes infecting freshwater turtles. Using an integrative approach comprising genomics, morphology, and parasitology, I am interesting in enumerating diversity of herpetofauna and their parasites, specifically from New Guinea and North America (with a Southern Piedmont focus). I am interested in understanding the genomic architecture maintaining (and sometimes blurring) this diversity at suture zones, and the biogeographic history that led us to present day. Check out more about ongoing research at the VMNH!