I developed an interest in the evolution of plants as a Master's student at Guangxi University where I studied how mangrove species with different latitudinal limits and populations from different latitudinal locations adapt to local temperature conditions. I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Streisfeld Lab (https://streisfeldlab.weebly.c...) at the University of Oregon where I study how populations adapt to local conditions, how local adaption contributes to speciation, and how hybridization with geographically sympatric species can contribute to local adaptation. To answer these questions I utilize the resources available for the Mimulus aurantiacus species complex to look at which factors have contributed to adaptive radiation within this complex.
