Mira Mastoras, junior specialist

Current

• Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Cruz (2021-current)

Education

• BS Cellular Biology, minor in Bioinformatics (2015 - 2019)

Professional Experience

• Junior Research Specialist, Dennis, Henn, and Bales labs at UC Davis (2020-2021)

• Undergraduate researcher, Dennis lab at UC Davis (2019-2020)

• Undergraduate researcher, Huising lab at UC Davis (2016-2018)

• Research intern, JN Biosciences LLC (Summer 2018) 

Interests

• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics 

• Epigenetics

• Cellular & Molecular Biology

• Immunology 

Hobbies

• Racing & training for triathlons 

• Cooking 

• Skiing

Recent Publications

• Effects of pairing on color change and central gene expression in lined seahorses. Mederos SL, Duarte RC, Mastoras M, Dennis MY, Settles ML, Lau AR, Scott A, Woodward K, Johnson C, Seelke AH, Bales KL. Genes Brain Behav. 2022.

• Diverse molecular mechanisms contribute to differential expression of human duplicated genes. Shew CJ, Carmona-Mora P, Soto DC, Mastoras M, Roberts E, Rosas J, Jagannathan D, Kaya G, O’Geen H, Dennis MY. MBE. 2021.

• Identification of Structural Variation in Chimpanzees Using Optical Mapping and Nanopore Sequencing. Soto DC*, Shew C*, Mastoras M, Schmidt JM, Sahasrabudhe R, Kaya G, Andrés AM, Dennis MY. Genes (Basel). 2020 Mar 4;11(3).