Bio
Clara graduated from the University of California, Davis, in June 2025 with a degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity and minor in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics. As an undergraduate, she studied gland chemistry and morphology in orchid bees in the Ramirez lab as a part of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology, and community dynamics, specifically species coexistence, with Sebastian Schreiber. She will study optogenetic systems and do mathematical modeling in the Collins lab as a PREP scholar.