About

My research focuses on the ecology and evolution of host-microbe interactions. I am broadly interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-microbe interactions with the overall goal of understanding how microbial organisms spread, persist, and affect their host populations.

My current work seeks to understand how host-microbe symbioses impact evolutionary outcomes in host populations. I am utillzing experimental evolution and mathematical modeling approaches to understand how host-microbe symbioses, ranging from mutualistic to pathogenic interactions, modify virulence evolution in changing environments.

I received my PhD in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of John Vandermeer. Previously, I was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology working with Mike Boots in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley. I am currently a Carolina Fellow for Faculty Diversity and USDA NIFA Fellow at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Programming for Biologists (Instructor of Record)

The Science of Origins (TA).

Genomics in Society (TA)

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (TA) .

Food, Energy, and the Environment (TA).

Introductory Biology (TA) .

• senay@unc.edu
• lancelothogben
• Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280. USA