My Interests

I have worked with all sorts of marine invertebrates from cephalopods, to echinoderms to mollusks. I consider myself an Environmental Biologist with a focus in marine invertebrates.

I have worked at various Marine Labs both on the East and West Coasts

• Univeristy of Chicago, 2014-2018
• Marine Biological Laboratory, 2016
• Puget Sound Restoration Fund, 2018-2020
• Pacific Hybreed, 2019-2020
• Hood Canal Mariculture, 2020-2021
• University of Washington, 2021-present

I am a proponent for open science. I use an open access online lab notebook as well as GitHub to share my research and support reproducibility.

I am currently a graduate student with Dr. Steven Roberts in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington.

Current Research

Citrate Synthase

How are Pacific Oysters (C. gigas) responding to multiple stressors and how can we measure stress?

Citrate Synthase is an enzyme that determines the rate of the Krebs Cycle are can be used as a proxie for quantifiing intact mitochondria Multiple-Stress Oysters are stressed by increasingly high air and water temperatures but also polyploidy stress which is a type of stress due to the induction of a third chromosome (3n) that is a factor in in situ mass mortality events

Geoduck Larval Transcriptome Analysis

How can we compare the transcriptomes of multiple tissue types and life stages to better understand geoduck development?

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Moledular Delivery of Morpholinos or CRISPR Cas9 system into shellfish embryos

How to deliver a gene editing system into early life stages of geoduck (P. generosa) and/or pacific oysters (C. gigas)

Lots of work on this effort to visualize a phenotype change in early life stages (48 hours post fertilization. See the first post in this series here or look for tag 'oysters'