Graduate Students
Charlene Lujan, Ph.D. Candidate
Charlene is a veterinarian from Peru currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology. She has always been passionate about understanding wild birds’ diseases. In Peru, she studied avian parasites in wild birds and avian gastric yeast in exotic birds. She got her Avian Sciences M.S. at UC Davis working on Chlamydia sp. and atherosclerosis in raptors. Now, her research focuses on how microplastics and PBDEs are interfering with the health status of diving birds from the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem in Peru. Charlene runs the Microplastic Fauna Peru Project, which is an initiative from a multidisciplinary group of young Peruvian professionals that study microplastics and contaminants in Peruvian wildlife.
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Khiet Huynh, Ph.D. Student
Khiet joined the lab as an undergraduate and continued as a lab assistant after he received his Animal Biology B.S. in 2019. Now, Khiet is a Ph.D. student in the Animal Biology Graduate Group. He is interested in studying the effects of environmental factors on fish larvae. He currently leads our Delta Smelt larval culture and experimentation.
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