Victoria DeLeo is a Plant Biologist looking for a new opportunity. Her most recent role was as an R&D scientist at a Controlled Environmental Agriculture start-up. She did her postdoc in the Buerkle lab at the University of Wyoming through the Modelscape project, competing sparse models on simulated data and applying modeling methods to understanding genetic and phenotypic diversity in plants. She received her PhD from Penn State University, where she studied patterns of adaptation and geneflow in tropical dry forest trees as well as phenology and phenotypic change in Arabidopsis.
PhD in Plant Biology, 2020
Pennsylvania State University
BS in Genetics, BSAB in Applied Biotechnology, 2014
University of Georgia
Competing sparse modeling methods.
Tracking intron loss in ABCB1 across the grass phylogeny.
Identifying the influence of frugivore nesting behavior on tree population genetics.
Comparing Arabidopsis phenology in the lab to herbarium collections.
Making plant biology and ecology accessible and enjoyable for the wider public is an important goal of my work. Some of my outreach efforts:
I have served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at Penn State: