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I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, working under Ph.D. Britt Koskella in the department of Integrative Biology. My research broadly encompasses community ecology, microbiology, and conservation biology among a bunch of other disciplines that intersect with my projects. I'm specifically looking at microbial communities (microbiomes) in plants, how these communities are assembled over time, how they affect plant health, and how we can harness microbiomes for application in sustainable agriculture and conservation of threatened plants. My dissertation focuses on how microbiomes induce changes in their plant host across generations (inter-generational effects). As a Kanaka ʻŌiwi, I am also interested in increasing accessibility to education and research for Hawaiians and more broadly finding solutions to societal problems in local Hawaiʻi communities.
B.Sc. in Biology at the University of Puget Sound M.S. in Botany at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. |
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