Background.. As part of Sam's doctoral research, he worked alongside growers in the shellfish aquaculture industry to investigate techniques for hatchery enhancement - applied bioinformatic tools to understand the influence of early-life 'programming windows' when acclimation, or priming/hormesis, can buffer against subsequent environmental change. Check out my open hatchery handbook for Pacific geoduck clams!
Current.. NRC Post-doctral Research Associate at NOAA NMFS in Milford, CT NOAA Contractor/Affiliate - I am motivated to understand the rules of life that allow organisms to persist in our ever-changing world. At Milford, I work alonside a multidisciplinary team on a multi-year Bay scallop rearing project. I seek to synthesize physiological, cellular, and multi-omics data to understand the adaptive machinery underpinning environmental resilience (i.e. attenuated mitochondrial capacity/signaling, gene expression, genetic and non-genetic variation, etc.) within and across generational timescales.
🌱 I am learning bioinformatic tools to explore adaptive loci using lcWGS data. I am also excited to build an understanding in subcellular mechanisms - the role of mitochondrial capacity/retrograde signaling on cellular homeostasis and the functional transciptome is of particular interest.
📫 Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
⚡ I am an advocate for open science and strive to dissolve inaccessible barriers - submitting to public repositories (such as Github and Zenodo!) keeps my data transparent and accessible. Interested in expanding upon this thread in my current and future career endevours. Please reach out if you have any suggestions or just want to talk science, happy to chat!
😄 Pronouns: he/him