The Organization for Tropical Studies (2003), Tropical Ecology, Costa Rica
The School for Field Studies (Fall-1997), Wetland Ecology, Baja, Mexico
Bachelor of Arts, Mount Holyoke College (1999),
major: Biology, minor: Math

University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Hinds Fund (2004)
National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, finalist (2004)
Argonne National Laboratory, lab grad fellowship (2003)
OTS post-course research fellowship (2003)
University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies, Tinker Grant (2003)

Research Interests:

Plant and fungal bio-diversity, symbiosis and coevolution, ecological theory and community ecology, hierarchical scale in ecology and evolution, and community assembly processes.

Current Research:

PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF DIVERSITY IN THE GLOMEROMYCOTA:

Assessing patterns of diversity and composition in symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) across scales, their correlation to plant and soil characteristics, and the community assembly processes underlying these patterns.