Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Dr. Ben Titus. Ben is an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding how biodiversity evolves in tropical marine mutualisms. He combines extensive field research with systematics and genomic approaches to understand symbiosis at all levels of biological organization.

His work spans from broad order-level phylogenetics to phylogeography, species delimitation, population genetics, full genome sequencing, and behavioral ecology. Ben is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science at University of Alabama. He received the MASNA graduate student fellowship award at MACNA 2017 and was a speaker at the 2019 MACNA.