I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how natural and sexual selection impact adaptation to the local environment, the extent to which ecological and sexual environments impact interactions between the sexes, and the underlying evolutionary genetics and genomics of those adaptations. In addressing these fundamental evolutionary areas, research in the group takes an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating different techniques from experimental evolution to genomics. The work is mainly laboratory based, and mainly capitalizing on the tremendous diversity of different Drosophila species (yes, there is more to Drosophila than D. melanogaster, although they are nice too) to study these conceptual issues.