I am a senior Ph.D. student working on the characterization of microbial natural products from unusual or unique habitats and symbiotic relationships, including South African tunicate/microbe consortia, Red Sea cyanobacteria, and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
I am a senior Ph.D. student working on the "evolutionary metabolomics" of peptidic natural products from fungi belonging to the order Hypocreales, which is comprised of seven major groups (clades) that are uniquely defined by their ecologies, and include insect pathogens, mycoparasites and wood endophytes.