My primary activities include 1) estimating genetic relatedness among individuals and identifying
the population origin of each parental line in reinforcements of the species Centaurea corymbosa.
2) test whether offspring from crosses between different populations exhibit higher fitness under
stressful conditions and 3) whether mixing sources in reinforcements increases heritable variation
for adaptive traits. These analyses will help predict the demographic consequences of assisted
gene flow using eco-evolutionary models developed. My role is centered on data analysis,
bioinformatics, and statistical modeling, contributing to the broader understanding of genetic
variation and its impact on population dynamics.