Chelsea Higgins

Chelsea Higgins is a Zoology PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where she studies the impact of climate change on mosquito microbes and the evolution of Zika virus. Chelsea earned her MSc at the University of Iowa, studying the evolution of host immune response and parasite resistance in invasive snails. She has been involved in several international genomics collaborations, and throughout her graduate career, she has enjoyed engaging with others through teaching and science outreach. Broadly, she is interested in how we can use multidisciplinary collaborations to investigate and predict climate-driven evolution in zoonotic diseases.