I am extremely interested in both plant ecology and biochemistry, which makes a project such as "Landscapes of Linalool" naturally interesting to me. I'm primarily interested in the evolution of floral scent, as well as the role that floral volatiles play in pollinator attraction and herbivore repulsion/defense. I'm also interested in protein folding and the biosynthesis of secondary plant metabolites-- in short, one could say that my primary interest is chemical ecology (of plants, primarily).