I am a 4th year PhD student at the University of Washington interested in evolutionary biology. I am a member of the Metzger Lab at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute, where I study the evolutionary origins of a contagious cancer in soft-shell clams. For my thesis I have characterized the genome evolution of the cancer, estimating the cancer to have originated ~500 years ago and discovering that it has a massively restructured genome indicating genomic instability.

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