Welcome to the Kitchen lab!

​Our group is focused on understanding the forces shaping the evolution and ecology of symbiotic partners. We take an intergrative approach by using field, laboratory, and computational approaches to address fundamental questions surrounding interspecies interactions. Our work aims to transform our understanding of host-microbe interactions and contribute to conservation efforts of threatened species.

Prospective students and postdocs please check out the Join Us page on how to get involved.
NEWS
  • Kitchen Lab to open January 2023 at Texas A&M Galveston! Reach out if interested in MS/PhD positions.
  • Oct 2020: SNPchip highlighted on NSF “4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About” 
  • Sept 2020:  We present a new draft genome assembly of Symbiodinium  fitti  that we used for SNP analysis in a new pre-print. We reveal symbionts first partition by host, not geography, in an highly specific coral-symbiont association. Work led by Hannah Reich, a bright and persistent scientist that kept us going even when we were utterly confused by the results.​​
Photo Credit: Dr. Justin Havird
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