I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wainwright Lab in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis. I completed my Ph.D. in 2010 in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the University of California, Riverside working in Ted Garland’s Lab. Before that, I completed an M.S. working with Mike Angilletta at Indiana State University in 2004.
I am broadly interested in evolutionary physiology and functional morphology. My research focuses on the effects of varying selective pressures on physiological and functional systems. I employ a variety of techniques to address questions related to how natural and sexual selective pressures influence functional systems (e.g., swimming performance in fish). I am also interested in how environmental variation affects the physiology (e.g., growth and development) and morphology (e.g., body size and scale counts) of ectothermic vertebrates. Most of my research is conducted in a phylogenetic context, which allows me to incorporate modern phylogenetic comparative methods to examine the evolution of physiological, morphological and functional systems. As a Postdoctoral researcher in the Wainwright lab I am continuing to explore the evolution of morphology and function in fish.
Contact info:
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
phone: (530) 752-6784
email: ceoufiero – at – ucdavis.edu
