PhD Candidate I'm a fourth year PhD Candidate and a member of Dr. Andrea Sweigart's research group. My research aims to understand the genetic and evolutionary causes of hybrid seed inviability in species of Yellow Monkeyflower in the genus Mimulus. Education Education: I began my educational journey at Fullerton College, a small local college to my home in Southern California. I eventually transferred to the University of California, Santa Cruz where I double majored in Plant Science and Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology.
