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Charley is broadly interested in using genomics to understand the ecology and evolution of threatened species for conservation management. She completed her PhD in March 2025 at Queen Mary University of London with Prof Christophe Eizaguirre. Her project involved generating genomic and epigenomic insights for loggerhead sea turtle conservation, focusing on the threats of temperature-dependent sex ratio skew and thermal stress under climate change. Previously, she earned her undergraduate Natural Sciences degree and Zoology MPhil degree at the University of Cambridge, where she worked on population genomics of a wing colour polymorphism in wood tiger moths. Now re-joining the Eizaguirre Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Charley is building on her PhD work by developing a DNA methylation-based approach to sex Hawaiian green sea turtle hatchlings and assess climate impacts on contemporary sex ratios, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).