I am an undergraduate senior majoring in Biology. I am very interested in the field of Epigenetics, to investigate how environmental factors influence the expression of genes. My current project in the lab involves studying the reproductive cycles of Daphnia and the underlying mechanisms. Our goal is to determine what changes happen during meiosis which allow cyclic parthenogenic Daphnia to switch reproductive methods. In the future I hope to join UTA as a PhD candidate and to continue working on this project.
