Molecular Evolution of an Insect / Bacteria Symbiosis
Feb 14th | 11am | 46/152
Rebecca Duncan began her research career as an undergraduate studying the convergent mechanism of camouflage in six-eyed sand spiders and a little known North American spider genus called Homalonychus. Her work as an undergraduate has been highlighted in the prestigious journal Nature. Since 2009, Rebecca has been studying molecular evolution at the University of Miami, where she is a Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Alex Wilson. Rebecca is currently investigating the genomes of organisms with intracellular symbionts, examining how the host’s genome has evolved to produce transport proteins that facilitate the exchange of amino acids between the cells of the symbionts and the host cells in which they live. She is lead author on several papers and is a recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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