Educational Experience

Doctorate of Philosophy in Biological Sciences | The University of Tulsa | Anticipated May 2023

Bachelor of Science in Entomology | Oklahoma State University | May 2018

Associate of Science in Horticulture | Tulsa Community College | May 2016

Research Interests

My expertise is in urban ecology and evolution in indoor urban pests. I currently use bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) as a model organism to study parasite-host relationships at multiple geographic scales. As a species with a close-association to us—humans—they provide a unique opportunity to study how host organisms impact parasite ecology and evolution with an applied importance to human health and well-being. I’m completing my Ph.D. in the Booth Lab and am currently looking for a post-doc or industry position in Computational Genetics or related field.

BIOL7263 Assignments

Assignment Vignette Link Description
Assignment 1 Assignment 1 Introduction to GitHub
Assignment 2 Assignment 2 R Markdown, Portfolio Building
Assignment 3 Assignment 3 Regular Expressions
Assignment 4 Assignment 4 Using dplyr for Data Management
Assignment 5 Assignment 5 Merging and Comparing Data
Assignment 6 Assignment 6 Using ggplot to Visualize Data
Assignment 7 Assignment 7 GIS in R
Student Lessons Oct-24-22 Mierow seminar assignment and Lesson Notes Using R package AcuityView and creating loops
My Lesson 10-Nov-22 Automation with Functions Demonstrates the basic syntax of creating functions and the utility of user-defined functions
Student Lessons 10-Nov-22 rentrez Demonstrates how to search publication databases using rentrez
Student Lessons 1-Dec-22 Heatmaps in R Demonstrates how to create a gene expressio heatmap in R