Meet The 2025-2026 Team
Current Students
Chloe Brazzo
Alessandra Dodson
Dtag Team
Dtag Team
Alessandra is a sophomore studying neuroscience. Her research explores how the pre-dives before whale's deep dives is impacting their ability to dive for long periods in hypoxic states, and how these pre-dives are preparing them for their deep dives.
John Grissinger
Whale Cell Data
John is a sophomore studying biology. Currently, John is researching stress hormone effects on hypoxia response in deep diving mammals.
Jinny Guo
Whale Cell Hypoxia
Jinny is a sophomore studying cell & molecular biology and computer science. Her work investigates cell cycle changes in the goose-beaked whale under hypoxic conditions.
Crystal Han
Renee Li
James Peng
Whale Organoids
Whale Cell Data, Whale Organoids
Whale Cell Data
Crystal is a sophomore studying environmental science and biology. She is currently testing primers for inflammation-related genes. Crystal also plans to look more at gene expression between different inflammatory biomarkers.
Renee is a junior studying biology (with a concentration in marine biology) and neuroscience. She is interested in how hypoxia tolerance mechanisms may differ across different cetacean species. She is also interested in the effects of hypoxia on cetacean neurons.
James is a sophomore studying biology. He is interested in a range of topics within computational biology. Currently, James is working on analyzing cetacean cell data (from growth measurements to RNA-seq and other omics datasets) using R.
Mikaela Voinov
Dolphin Epigenetics
Mikaela is a junior studying biology and marine science & conservation. She is broadly interested in population genetics and is currently looking at runs of homozygosity across regional groups of bottlenose dolphins.