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
1. The Aedes Genome Working Group. Improved Aedes aegypti mosquito reference genome assembly enables biological discovery and vector control, Nature.
2. NH Rose, RA Bay, MK Morikawa, SR Palumbi. Polygenic evolution drives species divergence and climate adaptation in corals, Evolution.
3. RA Bay*, NH Rose*, RDH Barrett, RB Brem, CK Ghalambor, L Bernatchez, PL Ralph, JR Lasky, SR Palumbi. Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures, The American Naturalist. *These authors contributed equally.
4. RA Bay, NH Rose, CA Logan, SR Palumbi. Genomic models predict successful coral adaptation if future ocean warming rates are reduced, Science Advances.
5. NH Rose, FO Seneca, SR Palumbi. Gene networks in the wild: identifying transcriptional modules that mediate coral resistance to experimental heat stress, Genome Biology and Evolution.
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