Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2016-2017) Reader, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2012-present) Senior Lecturer, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2005-2012) Lecturer, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2001-2005) Assistant Professor University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA (1998-2001) NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Associate, University of Chicago, USA (1996-1998) PhD, Patricia Harris Fellow, Arizona State University, USA (1995) BSc, Western Michigan University, USA (1989)

Research in my laboratory has two main foci which are becoming interlinked. First, we primarily work on how interactions between males and females influence genes, physiology, morphology and behaviour of each sex, and how the environment influences those interactions. In particular, we study how sexual and natural selection contributes to the evolution of reproduction strategies, mainly sperm form and function and how such selection can generate reproductive isolation. Second, we are taking a landscape approach to studying local adaptation to temperature stress, identifying genes that contribute to this response. Along the way, we are discovering that some of these genes are related to reproduction. Our research programmes use Drosophila as a model system, including D. melanogaster, D. pseudoobscura, D. subobscura, and D. montana. We use both lab and field populations, and employ a variety of research techniques including experimental evolution, microarray and RNAseq, and confocal microscopy.