My current research focuses on computational biology and comparative genomics and deals with the affect of alignment accuracy and indel models on phylogeny reconstruction as well as comparison in terms of accuracy of current alignment and reconstruction approaches. My basic research interests are in organismal evolution to phyloinformatics and comparative genomics. I am particularly interested in insect evolution and systematics, specifically within the basal pterygotes (mayflies, dragonflies, and damselflies), and the origin of insect flight.
Articles
Polyphyly of the Pikeminnows (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Inferred Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequences, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (2010)
The phylogenetic relationships of the Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius, northern pikeminnow P. oregonensis, Sacramento pikeminnow...
Combined morphological and molecular phylogeny of Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera), Zootaxa (2009)
This study represents the first combined molecular and morphological analysis for the mayfly family Ephemerellidae...
Towards a new paradigm in mayfly phylogeny (Ephemeroptera): combined analysis of morphological and molecular data, Systematic Entomology (2009)
This study represents the first formal morphological and combined (morphological and molecular) phylogenetic analyses of...
Molecules, Morphology and Fossils: A Comprehensive Approach to Odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the Odonate Wing, Cladistics (2008)
We undertook a comprehensive morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis of dragonfly phylogeny, examining both extant...