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-Growing up in land-locked Fort Worth, Texas, I rarely interacted with marine ecosystems. However, despite my high school focus on studying mathematics, a lifelong interest in how climate change was affecting the world prompted me to join a coral phylogenetics lab in my first year of undergrad. My experience there sparked an ongoing interest in studying the impacts of climate change on vulnerable ecological systems. Throughout my undergraduate career at Harvey Mudd College I continued to study soft coral taxonomy and population genetics using both molecular and NGS methods, culminating in a thesis project for which I utilized target capture of conserved elements to improve species delimitation and understanding of biogeographical diversity in the speciose octocoral genus *Sclerophytum* (formerly *Sinularia*). I graduated with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Biology and an Emphasis in Environmental Analysis in May 2023 and spent the following summer working as a Lab Technician for my undergraduate lab, both continuing my research and managing the lab's daily operation. Moving into graduate work I'm excited to shift my research focus to studying physiological stress response in marine invertebrates, and I'm looking forward to figuring out what project(s) I'll get to be a part of in the Roberts Lab! Outside of classes and the lab, I like to spend my time thrifting, reading, crafting, and finding new shows to watch with my partner, and I'm excited to discover even more cool activities in Seattle!
+Growing up in land-locked Fort Worth, Texas, I rarely interacted with marine ecosystems. However, despite my high school focus on studying mathematics, a lifelong interest in how climate change was affecting the world prompted me to join a coral phylogenetics lab in my freshman year at Harvey Mudd College. My experience there sparked an ongoing interest in studying the impacts of climate change on vulnerable ecological systems. Throughout my undergraduate career I continued to study soft coral taxonomy and population genetics using both molecular and NGS methods, culminating in a thesis project for which I utilized target capture of conserved elements to improve species delimitation and understanding of biogeographical diversity in the speciose octocoral genus Sclerophytum (formerly Sinularia). I graduated with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Biology and an Emphasis in Environmental Analysis in May 2023 and spent the following summer working as a Lab Technician for my undergraduate lab, both continuing my research and managing the lab’s daily operation. 
+Now, as part of the Roberts Lab I'm broadly studying stress response in marine invertebrates. My current projects include studying differential gene expression in Pacific cod, non-coding RNAs in corals, and the efficacy of stress hardening in Pacific oysters! Outside of classes and the lab, I like to spend my time thrifting, reading, crafting, and finding new shows to watch with my partner!
 
 ## Megan Ewing