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Research
Interests:
Hailing
from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he got
both his undergraduate and masters degree in Cellular and Molecular
Biology. Despite his early interests in medicine, he got his first
taste of marine biology research working for Dr. Ostrander creating
a laboratory methadology mimicing the stress corals recieve from
crude oil spill. His hobby for marine biology as a child and experience
with marine research led him to apply and subsiquiently come to
Hawaii to learn to surf and get a tan, oh and get a PhD in the mean
time.
Currently
working in a collaboration between his advisor Dr. Robert Richmond,
Dr. Gary Ostrander and Dr. Ron Lu on several projects. Currently
working on the characterization of differnt Goat Fish cells (Mulloidichthys
vanicolensis) with the ultimate goal of establishing a
permaculture of coral cells. In conjunction he is also working on
the anthropogenic stress of corals, and there resilliance in both
laboratory and field enviornments
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