My Research Interests

Biological Consequences of Environmental Change

Study System: Cayo Santiago

My study system is a population of roughly 1700 semi-natural free ranging rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. My research will revolve around the site's extensive and well-preserved tissue collections.

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Natural Experiment: Hurricane Maria 

This will be a multi-tissue study examining the effects of a natural disaster on immune function, stress response, and biological aging

Methods: Transcriptional and Epigenetic Profiling

I will examine differential gene expression and DNA methylation signatures, in a hope to identify key pathways affected following the natural disaster, and perhaps underlying genetic effects