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Dr. Joseph Heras is an evolutionary biologist keenly interested in the genetic mechanisms that facilitate evolutionary adaptation. He attended UCRiverside for undergrad, CSULA for his masters, and UCMerced for his Ph.D. Joe works in the Donovan German lab (Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and recently attended the 2016 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Portland Oregon…Continue Reading Joseph Heras

Dr. Robert Lin was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Magdalene Seiler at UC Irvine in the Department of Ophthalmology. During his postdoc, he examined visual acuity and electrophysiological responses to light in retinal degenerate rats treated with human stem cell–derived retinal transplants. During his postdoc, Robert was president of the UCI Postdoctoral Association (2014-2016) and…Continue Reading Robert Lin