2000-2004 University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.
     Advisors: David M. Hillis & James J. Bull

1995-1997 Colorado State University, M.S.
     Advisor: Michael F. Antolin

1990-1995 University of Oklahoma, B.S. magna cum laude
     Advisor: Gary D. Schnell



2005-present University of California-Davis, Postdoctoral Fellow
     Mentor: David J. Begun

2000-2004 University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Research Fellow/Teaching Asst.
     Dissertation research: Polyploid origins and evolution of gene duplicates
     Teaching experience: Vertebrate Natural History and Biology for Business and Social
     Sciences

1997-1999 University of Texas at Houston, Research Associate
     Lab management and research on genetic regulation of lipid metabolism in
     skeletal muscle in active and sedentary states
     Principal Investigator: Mark T. Hamilton

1995-1997 Colorado State University, Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant
     Thesis research: Genetics of sex determination n a parasitoid wasp
     Teaching experience: Introductory Botany, Introductory Biology, Genetics of
     Natural Populations, and Evolution

1993-1995 Oklahoma Biological Survey, Student Research Specialist II
     Conducted surveys of endangered American buying beetles, mammals, reptiles,
     and amphibians, Principal Investigator: Gary D. Schnell



2007 Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research, University of California

2005-2007 NSF Biological Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship
     Evidence for Adaptive Evolution on a Genome-wide Scale

2003-2004 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
     Origin and Evolution of Polyploid Frogs

2002-2004 NSF-IGERT Fellowship
     Computational Phylogenetics and Applications to Biology

2000-2002 Graduate Program in Zoology Research Awards, University of Texas

1996 University Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University

1995 Colorado Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University



Society for the Study of Evolution, Christchurch, New Zealand, June 2007
NESCENT Phyloinformatics Hackathon, Durham, North Carolina, December 2006
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Tempe, Arizona, May 2006
Genetics Society of America Drosophila Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 2006
Keystone Symposium: Genome Sequence Variation, Big Sky, Montana, January 2006



Journal reviewer for: Genetics, Genome Research, PLoS Genetics, PLoS One