News

2023

  • I have joined Mevin Hooten Lab, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences as a postoctoral researcher.
  • I successfully defended my PhD.
  • I presented our work on rapid evolution in soapberry bug populations by spatial soritng in the W.D. Hamilton Award research symposium.
  • I presented our work on human-mediated spread of Zebra Mussel expansion at ESA, Ecological Integration Symposium, and Species on The Move.
  • I was awarded the Trailblazer Ecology Publication award by the Student Section, Ecological Society of America.
  • I presented our work on spatial sorting at Evolution and the biannual ASN conference at Asilomar.


2022

  • What limits species ranges? Check out our new paper in the American Naturalist.
  • I presented our work on spatial sorting at the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • I was awarded C.P. “Pete” Oliver fellowship by UT Austin to conduct my research on soapberry bugs.
  • I got into ecology through a series of fortunate events. As a Stengl-Wyer graduate fellow, I write about how I got here and where I plan to go next.
  • I was awarded Graduate Continuing Fellowship by UT Austin for 2022-23.
  • Are you an empiricist wanting to understand and do ecology theory? We published a step-by-step guide on how you can get started.


2021

  • I will be joining the ASN Graduate Student Council as a student representative.
  • How to build the evolutionary theory of spatial sorting? Check out the preprint of my paper, where I outline my views.
  • Our paper on the resilience of savanna and forest biomes received the Outstanding Paper Award from the Theory Section at ESA.
  • I was awarded the Stengl-Wyer graduate fellowship by the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin for 2021-22.
  • I was awarded the summer fellowship by the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin.
  • Our paper on savanna-forest dynamics in Madagascar was awarded the Robert P McIntosh award by the Vegetation Section, ESA.
  • I am officially a Ph.D. candidate.
  • I got vaccinated.
  • I will be presenting my work on source-sink dynamics at the American Society of Naturalists (virtually). ​


2020 (Finally it’s over)

  • We describe how source-sink dynamics maintain range limits in a new paper posted on bioRxiv.
  • Our contribution is in a special feature out in Neobiota.
  • Our paper on the range pinning of the savanna-forest boundary in Madagascar is out in Ecology.
  • This fall, I am teaching Evolution (my first time) with Nancy Moran and Thomas Juenger.
  • This summer, I presented at virtual ESA and eSMB on how source-sink dynamics regulate geographical limits.
  • I was awarded the summer fellowship from the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin.
  • My first first-author paper from masters got published in The American Naturalist.
  • This spring, I will assist Lindsey Smith in teaching Biostatistics.
  • My second paper from Master’s is available online on BioRxiv.
  • The official announcement for the Deevey Award by the Paleoecology section of the Ecological Society of America.