Current projects:
A Biochemical, Genetic, and Genomic Investigation of the Evolution and Ecology of Sexual Reproduction

Research Activities: Comparative and functional genomics; Functional annotation of sequence data; Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms; Protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions; Evolution of cytochrome P450 gene superfamily, co-evolution with nuclear receptors. Science correspondent for the Cape and Islands NPR Stations.

Research Activities: Molecular genetics and molecular evolution of asexual metazoans; Cytology and fluorescent in situ hybridization of rotifers; Hox gene organization of basal metazoans