presentations

Evolution Meeting

July 2024

I was very excited to share my research at the Evolution meeting in Montreal, Canada this year! I presented about testing alternative phylogenetic hypotheses in squamate reptiles and investigating sex chromosome evolution using the Anolis grahami genome assembly. Watch my talk here!

CCIB Fall Seminar Series

October 2023

I presented at my department fall seminar series on my research assembling the genome for Anolis grahami.

JMIH Presentation

July 2023

I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to JMIH 2023 on the SSAR Student Travel Award to present my research studying the evolution of large body size in Anolis sagrei

JMIH Presentation

July 2022

I had such a great time sharing my research on assembling a reference genome for Anolis grahami at JMIH this year! This was my first JMIH and it was such a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and hear about really exciting herpetology research.

Commencement Speech

May 2021

I am extremely honored to receive the Manly E. Wright Valedictory award from UNC Asheville. I was given the opportunity to speak to my graduating class at the May 2021 commencement ceremony (my speech starts at 28:22).

Spruce-Fir Conservation PechaKucha

May 2021

This is my PechaKucha presentation for my public speaking final competition. A PechaKucha is a special type of presentation where the presenter has 20 slides that automatically advance after 20 seconds. For my speech, I chose to talk about Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir forest conservation and I tied for first place! This was such a fun opportunity to try out this presentation style and share information about this wonderful mountain range that I call home!