MCDB Spotlights

A cross-disciplinary foundation in biological science, while allowing students the flexibility to choose their own path of inquiry.
I study how admixture and population history shape the genetic risk for neurodegenerative diseases.
We study the genetic basis of developmental robustness and plasticity using nematode C. elegans as a model system.
Surenna Pecchia is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Max Wilson’s lab at UC Santa Barbara. She is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts and received her B.S. in Biology from UMass Lowell.