I am a Lithuanian population geneticist broadly interested in how genetic interactions shape the evolutionary process. I finished my BsC at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and obtained my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Mark Kirkpatrick. I am a biologist who uses math to develop a better intuition and understanding of how the evolutionary process works, which means my work incorporates math, synthetic data sets and genomic approaches. I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
See my CV for a more extensive biography.
Teaching
At UConn, I have been teaching EEB 2254W, Evolutionary Biology (EEB 2245) and Population Genetics (EEB 5).
Links for any public materials for the courses are available in the Projects tab.
Outside of work
Outside of the classroom, I love to run, hike, brew beer and play board games.
Fun facts
I grew up moving across Europe, so I still maintain a conversational level of French and Russian, as well as native proficiency in Lithuanian. I don’t get to speak any of these languages as much as I’d like to, so if you speak any of them, come grab coffee with me so I don’t continue to degrade!