Marisol Bustos

• Undergraduate Student at University of Texas El Paso
• Genomic Summer Research Program for Minorities (GSRM) Intern - Summer 2021
• Project: Investigation of Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) pseudogenization and transcriptional activity in Pinniped lineages
• Presented poster at 2 conferences ; Coauthor on 1 publication (Published at Molecular Biology and Evolution)
• CURRENTLY: Pfizer Rotational R&D Fellow (and future Cornell Biomedical Engineering graduate student)

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Tacy Christensen

• Undergraduate Student at Utah State University
• Genomic Summer Research Program for Minorities (GSRM) Intern - Summer 2022
• Project: Characterizing HIF-pathway alteration and molecular response to hypoxia across extant basal metazoans (Ctenophora, Porifera)​
• Presented poster at 2 conferences (including NIH NIGMS)
• Coauthor on 1 publication (In preparation)
• CURRENTLY: Undergraduate student at Utah State University