About
Before joining the Meyers lab at the University of Texas at Austin for my PhD, I received my bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources (emphasis on Wildlife Conservation and Management) with a minor in Veterinary Science at the University of Arizona. As an undergraduate, I participated in the Undergraduate Biological Research Program (UBRP) and the Doris Duke Conservation Scholar Program (DDCSP, Now the Conservation Collaborative). I was the lead lab technician of the Wildlife Endocrinology Lab and an intern at the Laboratory for the Evolutionary Endocrinology of Primates (LEEP). While I participated in DDCSP, I interned at the California Department of Wildlife’s investigations lab where I assisted with the surveillance of diseases in wildlife. All of these experiences informed me about the human related impacts of wildlife health and propelled me towards a career in Disease Ecology!