Background

Education

• BA, Biology, Saint John’s University, 2011
• PhD, Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, 2018
• Postdoc, Colorado State University, 2018-2022

Research:

The Forsythe Lab uses molecular evolution as a tool to understand the genetic interactions that underlie cellular function. This work includes developing new bioinformatic tools capable of predicting genome-wide interaction networks (i.e. the protein-protein interactome) from publicly available genome sequences. Funded research in the lab is largely focused on plant genome evolution, but our research bridges taxa and we have active projects probing molecular evolution in plants, animals, and bacteria.

Teaching:

Courses Taught at OSU-Cascades:

• BB314: Cell and Molecular Biology
• BB345: Python for Molecular Biologists
• BB445: Evolution
• BB485: Applied Bioinformatics

Research areas