Position Title
Graduate Student (2025 Oct - present)
Education
University of California at Davis (2021 - 2025)
Work and Relevant Experience
Zhang Lab, Davis, CA, June 2025 - Present
- PhD student studying small grains breeding with a focus on utilizing landrace diversity in Wheat and Triticale. Research areas include genomic selection, stress tolerance, and nitrogen utilization, and the development of computational models to improve breeding workflows.
Syngenta Group, Woodland, CA, June 2024 - September 2024
- Worked on plant rating in field and greenhouse settings, made crosses and analyzed for heritability
- Built a data analysis pipeline to perform a range of analyses for the Global Cucurbits Center
Monroe Lab, Davis, CA, March 2023-June 2025
-Field sample collection, DNA extraction, cleaning, sequencing, and analysis including HiFi sequencing
-Building reference genome in order to understand how to mitigate effects of climate change
- Determining rate of mutation accumulation in somatic embryogenesis
Plenty Unlimited, South San Francisco, CA, July 2022-November 2022
-Designing and completing of experiments to maximize growth rate of indoor farming of various cultivars
-Focus on food security, sustainability, plant health, and growth rate
-Data analytics and optimization of high volume hydroponic setups
Dubcovsky Lab, Davis, CA, Fall of 2021 - Fall 2022
- Growth and maintenance of wheat populations, genetic analysis through gel electrophoresis
- Proper handling of transgenic materials
BioSB, Santa Barbara, CA, Summer of 2021 - Fall 2021
- Independent research on increasing immunohistochemical reaction speed for in situ testing
-Grounding in principles of IHC, including tissue identification and antibody staining
Achievements
- National Merit Finalist