I am generally interested in how fish (and sometimes other aquatic organisms) are affected by different environmental stressors. These stressors include things like low oxygen, parasites, waves and fluctuating water flow,  high salinity, etc. I try to figure out what effects these stressors have on populations of fishes in terms of their morphology, physiology and behaviour. I am especially interested in variation within species (intraspecific differences) along natural environmental gradients.

My lab uses molecular tools–genomics, metagenomics, and proteomics–to answer anthropological questions. 

Molecular primatology

• Primate adaptation to changing and hostile environments
• Population genomics of free-ranging primates
• Primate gut microbial ecology

Anthropology of fermented and preserved foods

• Microbial ecology of food fermentation
• Biocultural interaction of humans and the foods we produce

Development of new methods for non-invasive molecular ecology

• fecalFACS
• Scat detection dogs