I am a recent Ph.D. recipient from Stony Brook University where I worked with David Conover and Anne McElroy. I am very interested in endocrine control of life history traits in fishes. My thesis research addressed differences in life-history traits in populations of an estuarine fish, the Atlantic silverside. I was interested in 1) which genes/gene products control differences in traits like growth, sex determination and development among populations and 2) how these traits respond to anthropogenic influences like size-selective harvest and contaminants.
