About Me
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University in South Africa, and am part of the Centre for Biological Control research group.
I enjoy working on projects that involve answering phylogenetic and evolutionary questions, and I particularly love writing my own code and creating user-friendly applications.
📌 Please check out the tutorials I have created that cover how to run a variety of phylogenetic analyses, from sequence alignments to tree-building.
My blog covers all kinds of odds and ends that I find interesting; mostly snippets of code that can help with phylogenetic data preparation.
Please get in touch with me if you would like to collaborate on a project!
Current work
- A genetic investigation of the native stem-boring Tetramesa wasps in South Africa: identifying potential biological control agents of invasive grasses.
- Species distribution modelling for the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) - a risk assessment for South Africa. A collaboration with Evans Mauda and Wayne Kirkman at Citrus Research International (CRI)