I get excited about questions that integrate our understanding of how traits traditionally considered to be ‘defensive’ or ‘attractive’ mediate interactions with both mutualists and antagonists. My work is broadly ecological, but also incorporates evolutionary perspectives to understand how traits evolve at micro-evolutionary (and sometimes macro-evolutionary) levels. I’m an experimental field ecologist at heart, and like to combine manipulations in the field with greenhouse and laboratory experiments. My work has spanned a wide range of habitats and species, including questions in natural, urban, and agricultural ecosystems. Currently, we are focused on how floral traits affect pathogen transmission, establishment and dynamics in bee pollinators.