Ciera Martinez's profile
2018, Sep 11
Biography
Ciera Martinez is a biologist who spent the last ten years studying the evolution of morphology. During her PhD she explored how plant form develops and now aims to understand how non-coding DNA defines developmental signals during early fruit fly development. She is a Berkeley Institute of Data Science Fellow where she explores her love of all things data. And really likes fancy microscopes and cats.
Skills
Ciera knows a lot about Plant Biology, Evolution, R, and knitting.
Awesome Animal Pick
I choose the Okapi, because it’s looks like a mix between a two other awesome animals - zebras and giraffes. Also, being an evolutionary biologist I love all organisms considered to be exaples of “living fossils”
References
- Okapi Img 1 life of animals; the mammals, 1852: Link to page
- Okapi Img 2: Painting by Sir Harry Johnston (1858-1927), lithograph by P. J. Smit - Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1901, London, UK https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofzoo19012zool#page/n51/mode/2up