I am currently pursing my PhD in Biology at McGill University in Colin Chapman's lab.

My research interests include but are not limited to:

- Behavioral ecology and disease; specifically what behaviors put animals at risk for infection and what behavioral strategies animals may adopt to reduce their risk.

- Conservation applications for research.

- Other interests include the evolution of communication signals, optimization of conservation strategies, socioecological constraints, animal behavior, sustainable ecosystem use, and the evolution and cost of sociality.

- My work is currently focused on primates and their pathogens but in the past has included weakly electric fish, birds, and bacteria communities. I am currently funded by an NSF GRF and the Explorer Club's Eddie Bauer Youth Grant.

Current projects

- Spatial epidemiology of primate parasites at Kibale National Park (In prep.). In collaboration with Colin Chapman, Ria Ghai, Johanna Bleecker, and Tony Goldberg.

-Long-term changes in the patterns of polyspecific assocaitions of red colobus. (In prep.) In collaboration with Colin Chapman

- An examination of the affect of group size on the behaviour of a folivorous primate (In prep.) In collaboration with Colin Chapman.

Hard lessons learned along the way: Parasite methods in primatology (In prep). In collaboration with Dwight Bowman, Colin Chapman, Jessica Rothman, Chesley Walsh, and Laura Johnson

A comparison of red colobus living in fragments and forests in Uganda (In prep.) In collaboration with Devin Hart, Carl Boodman and Colin Chapman.

Primates as ecosystem engineers (In prep.). In collaboration with Colin Chapman, Dennis Twinomugisha, Patric Omeja, Michael Wasserman, and Jessica Rothman.

-Changing group sizes in a primate community over 15+ years:
Implications for the non-equilibrium of an ecosystem (In prep.). In collaboration with Colin Chapman, Ria Ghai, Aerin Jacob, Jessica Rothman, Dennis Twinomugisha, and Colin Chapman.

- Disease screening protocol for respiratory pathogens at great ape habituation sites. In collaboration with Fabian Leendertz and Peter Walsh.

- Seasonal mortality patterns in primates: Implications for the interpretation of microwear (In prep). In collaboration with Frederick Grine.

- Kibale Health and Conservation Project - A medical clinic within Kibale National Park that promotes reliable health care that is close at hand for the communities surrounding the park and will hopefully help improve park-people relationships. Donations are greatly appreciated.

- I put together a blog of current research activities (and some other odds and ends) here.

- I put together the IDPAS Guide to Grants, if you have old grants you would like to contribute please send them over.

- I also attended the Behavioral Ecology Group and maintained their website: http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/beg/index.html