A5005602505- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Gender Politics and Representation
- School Choice and Performance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
University of Georgia
2024
University of California, Berkeley
2023-2024
Global Policy Institute
2024
Wellesley College
2019-2022
While protected areas (PAs) are an important conservation strategy to protect vulnerable ecosystems and species, recent analyses question their effectiveness in curbing deforestation maintaining landscape connectivity. The spatial arrangement of forests inside outside PAs may affect ecosystem functioning wildlife movement. Osa Peninsula—and Costa Rica general—are unique case studies due high biodiversity, extensive PA network, environmental policies, payment for services (PES) programs. This...
We consider the cascading effects of researcher decisions throughout process quantifying racially polarized voting (RPV). contrast three methods estimating precinct racial composition, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), fully BISG, and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), two algorithms for performing ecological inference (EI), King’s EI EI:RxC using eiCompare. Using data from different elections we identify circumstances in which combinations produce divergent results, comparing...
We consider the cascading effects of researcher decisions throughout process quantifying racially polarized voting (RPV). contrast two methods estimating precinct racial composition, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), algorithms for performing EI, King’s EI EI:RxC. Using data from different elections we identify circumstances in which combinations produce divergent results, comparing against ground-truth where available. first find that BISG...
During its life cycle, the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus switches between an attack and a growth phase, each of which is characterized by distinct pattern gene expression. Twenty-one potential G-quadruplex-forming sequences (PQFS) have been identified in genome. These G-rich are prevalent within open reading frames nearly evenly distributed template coding strand, suggesting that they could play role expression cycle switching. Published transcriptomic data show genes...