Visiting Lab Members
I'm broadly interested in evolutionary biology and particularly fascinated by the processes that generate phenotypic diversity. In my previous work in Costa Rica and Panama I studied the role of predators driving coloration and behavioral divergence in poison-dart frogs and how cumulative predation risk maintains hatching plasticity in red-eyed treefrogs. In my PhD-research I will expand the breadth of my research by utilizing a comparative phylogenetic approach to study the evolution of female-
I investigated cryptic processes of sexual selection in the brown anole lizard, a species that experiences a high degree of sexual conflict. At Lund, I will be using a genomic approach to investigate intraspecific variation in reproductive gene expression among different female color morphs of Ischnura damselflies.
I'm have a big thing for dragonflies, they are the main reason for me to travel and the biggest motivation for me to go outdoors.
Università degli Studi di Parma Master's Degree, Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2013 – 2015 Researcher; Trainee Rutgers University luglio 2016 – agosto 2016 (2 mesi) Using the DNA barcoding method, I get the sequences of the dragonflies (genus Leucorrhinia). Due to randomly occurring mutation or due to natural selection there are genetic differences between the specimens. These differences are quantified and analyzed, to reconstruct phylogenetic trees, a haplotype network, and perfor
Maharaj ( University of Missouri–St. Louis) studied butterflies in her home country, Guyana, before joining the biology associate professor’s UMSL lab in 2012.