Doreen Chaussadas

Hi! I am Doreen! Since I was a child, I was always fascinated by animals and obsessed with the idea of being able to chat with them to ask them about their life, their whereabouts, their habits. Sadly that is not going to happen, but with my research, I use non-conversational methods to ask the same questions to my research subjects! For my PhD project, I am specifically interested in how White Ibises have adapted to urban living in South Florida. I use genomic tools, enzymatic assays and behavioral ecology approaches to ask them how they colonized urban parks so fast and what are the consequences of their urbanization on their evolutionary trajectory.

November 2025