Scientist and naturalist. I explore the world to understand the origin of animals and unique life on Earth. Read more about me on my personal website and lab website.
Currently seeking motivated PhD students and postdocs to join my lab (July 2026-) at Lehigh University and Lehigh Oceans. If you are interested in evolutionary genomics, chromosome biology, or molecular technology development, please reach out! [Apply for postdoc position]
I bridge chromosome-scale genomics, evolutionary biology, and molecular technology development.
Selected work:
- Tracing chromosomal changes to detangle early events in animal history and understand the deep branch points in the animal tree. Nature 2023
- Characterizing how animal chromosomes changed over their 1-billion year history. Science Advances 2026
- Uncovering the unique chromosome biology of the Pacific sea gooseberry comb jellyfish. G3 2021
- odp — Oxford dot plots for comparing chromosome-scale genomes and synteny relationships. Published in Nature 2023.
- pauvre — QC and plotting for long-read sequencing. Published in Bioinformatics 2018
- genome_assembly_pipelines — poorly documented but very useful scripts for assembling genomes.
Email: dts [at] lehigh [dot] edu