My current research focuses on computational biology and comparative genomics and deals with the affect of alignment accuracy and indel models on phylogeny reconstruction as well as comparison in terms of accuracy of current alignment and reconstruction approaches.  My basic research interests are in organismal evolution to phyloinformatics and comparative genomics.  I am particularly interested in insect evolution and systematics, specifically within the basal pterygotes (mayflies, dragonflies, and damselflies), and the origin of insect flight.