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## Summary ##
#### I am a computational ecologist who specializes in mechanistic modeling and statistical analysis of complex biological systems and large datasets. I am excited to transition from academic research to Data Science.

I have over 9 years of experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and mathematical modeling of various biological systems. I am a flexible researcher with a strong repertoire of data analysis, statistical, and modeling skills. 

My research has involved:

* Using statistical models to understand what environmental variables that contribute to the abundance of a fungal pathogen over time.
* Analyzing evolutionary game theory simulations to describe the mathematical features of stable systems of competitors.
* Utilizing published empirical data to parameterize a game theory model of plastic developmental strategies.
* Developing mechanistic models to predict climate change-driven extinctions.

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## Education ##
**PhD**, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | 2021
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis adviser: Barry Sinervo

**MS**, Biology | 2013
San Francisco State University
Thesis adviser: Andrew G. Zink

**BS**, Biology | 2008
University of California, Los Angeles

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## Publications ##
**Sette, C.M.** ["Variation and Extinction: Models for Alternative Strategies and Climate."](https://escholarship.org/content/qt5mw8939m/qt5mw8939m.pdf) PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz (2021): 1-151.

**Sette, C.M.**, V.T. Vredenburg, A.G. Zink. ["Differences in fungal disease dynamics in co-occurring terrestrial and aquatic amphibians."](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10393-020-01501-z) EcoHealth 17.3 (2020): 302-314.

Diele-Viegas, L., L.J. Vitt, B.R. Sinervo, G.R. Colli, F.P. Werneck, D.B. Miles, W.E. Magnusson, J.C. Santos, **C.M. Sette**, G.H.O. Caetano, E. Pontes, T.C.S. Ávila-Pires. [“Thermal physiology of Amazonian lizards."](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192834) PLoS ONE 13.3 (2018): e0192834.

Andrango, M.B., **C.M. Sette**, and O. Torres-Carvajal. ["Short-term predicted extinction of Andean populations of the lizard Stenocercus guentheri (Iguanidae: Tropidurinae)."](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306456515302011) Journal of Thermal Biology 62 (2016): 30-36. 

**Sette, C.M.**, V.T. Vredenburg, and A.G. Zink. ["Reconstructing historical and contemporary disease dynamics: A case study using the California slender salamander."](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320715300896) Biological Conservation 192 (2015): 20-29.


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## Conferences and Talks ##
**Sette, C.M.** (2019). Survival of the fighters: how competition supports complexity, poster. 2019 _ARCS Symposium_, 4/29/2019.

**Sette, C.M.** (2017). Ecophysiological modeling of extinction risk of New World Sphaerodactylidae, 15-minute talk. _11th Latinamerican Herpetological Congress_, 6/26/2017.

**Sette, C.M.** (2015). Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock: Evolution of a pentamorphic mating system, 15-minute talk. _UCSC EEB Graduate Research Symposium_, 4/8/2015.

**Sette, C.M.**, Vredenburg, V.T., Zink, A.G. (2014). Connecting historical and contemporary disease dynamics in the California slender salamander, 15-minute talk. _American Society of Naturalists_, 1/14/2014.

**Sette, C.M.**, Vredenburg, V.T., Zink, A.G. (2013). Chytridiomycosis Disease Ecology across Batrachoseps attenuatus Populations, 25-minute talk. _California-Nevada Amphibian Population Taskforce Meeting_, 1/10/2013.

**Sette, C.M.**, Vredenburg, V.T., Zink, A.G. (2013). Chytridiomycosis Disease Ecology across Batrachoseps attenuatus Populations, 20-minute talk. _Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology_, 1/7/2013.