Dr. Brenna A. Levine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Brenna is a molecular ecologist and population geneticist whose research focuses on sexual selection, long-term sperm storage, and facultative parthenogenesis in reptiles, with a major focus on pitvipers. She is particularly interested in how alternative reproductive strategies affect the strength of sexual selection in pitviper populations and how the resulting mating systems affect population genetic variation and evolutionary dynamics. Brenna's work is primarily lab-based and computational, with emphasis on genomic pedigree construction.