I am current employed as a postdoctoral research assistant with the Wood Lab, where I am tracking the influence of humans on the community of parasites associated with coral reef fish. Using data from the Northern Line Islands, the Southern Line Islands, and French Polynesia, I am examining the ways in which host biodiversity and parasite biodiversity are linked.
Within this context, I am also examining parasite co-occurrence, host and parasite functional traits, and the factors that control zoonotic parasite prevalence and abundance. |