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Degree Date:
Fall 2019
Mentor:
Noah Whiteman
Title:
Evolution of a Specialized Herbivore Community: Biogeography, Speciation, and Balancing Selection in North American Deserts
Tim is a NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago in the lab of Marcus Kronforst. He studies the evolution of plant-insect interactions with observational fieldwork, manipulative experiments, and functional genomics. In the future, Tim hopes to lead a lab that studies adaptation in desert insects.