About me
Humans are changing the planet in massive and unprecedented ways. I am interested in the evolutionary responses of natural populations to these changes. Mosquitoes are a fascinating lens for understanding these processes: of the thousands of mosquito species around the world, only a few have made the evolutionary transition to specializing on human hosts and habitats, and these species are the primary vectors of diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika virus. My current research focuses on understanding the behavioral and physiological changes that gave rise to these transitions, and the genomic changes and selective pressures that drove their evolution.
Education
Selected publications
2012-2016
Stanford University
PhD Biology
Advised by Dr. Stephen Palumbi
NH Rose, M Sylla, A Badolo, J Lutomiah, D Ayala, OB Aribodor, N Ibe, J Akorli, S Otoo, JP Mutebi, AL Kriete, EG Ewing, R Sang, A Gloria-Soria, JR Powell, RE Baker, BJ White, JE Crawford, CS McBride (2020). Climate and urbanization drive mosquito preference for humans. Current Biology 30 (18), 3570-3579.
F Aubrey, S Dabo, C Manet, I Filipović, NH Rose, 32 additional authors, L Lambrechts. Increased Zika virus susceptibility of globally invasive Aedes aegypti populations (2020). Science 370 (6519), 991-996.
The Aedes Genome Working Group (including NH Rose) (2018). Improved Aedes aegypti mosquito reference genome assembly enables biological discovery and vector control. Nature 8 (1), 243-252.
NH Rose, RA Bay, MK Morikawa, L Thomas, EA Sheets, SR Palumbi. Genomic analysis of distinct bleaching tolerances among cryptic coral species. In press, Proceedings of the Royal Society: B.
NH Rose, RA Bay, MK Morikawa, SR Palumbi. Polygenic evolution drives species divergence and climate adaptation in corals. Evolution 72 (1), 82-94.
RA Bay*, NH Rose*, RDH Barrett, RB Brem, CK Ghalambor, L Bernatchez, PL Ralph, JR Lasky, SR Palumbi (2017). Predicting responses to contemporary environmental change using evolutionary response architectures. The American Naturalist 189 (5), 463-473. *These authors contributed equally.
2017-2018
Princeton University
Postdoctoral Researcher
Advised by Dr. Lindy McBride
2018-2021
Princeton University
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow
Advised by Dr. Lindy McBride
2008-2012
Brown University
BSc Computational Biology