I received my B.A. from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of Brown University in 1996 with advisor David Rand. I completed my Ph.D. in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of California at Berkeley in 2005 with co-advisors David Wake and Craig Moritz. My dissertation research focused on understanding the genetic basis and ecological consequences of rapid divergence in White Sands lizards and was supported by an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, and funds from the Society of Systematic Biologists, the American Museum of Natural History and Sigma Xi. I am conducting my postdoctoral research in the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Genome Sciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with advisor Mike Eisen. My postdoctoral research involves a whole-genome molecular dissection of the interaction between frogs and the chytrid fungus responsible for amphibian declines and was supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics. My lab will start at the University of Idaho in summer 2008 and will be supported initially by an NSF Ecology of Infectious Disease Grant.