Ciara Mae Mendoza is a Cell Biology graduate student at Sackler. She graduated from Rutgers University, Newark in 2015, with a degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. After graduation, she worked in Dr. Jessica Ware’s lab, studying insect systematics, and panmixia in the dragonfly species Pantala flavescens. She looks forward to continuing her training in the Lu lab and studying sweat gland development.