School: University of California Davis

Rebecca Jean “RJ” Millena is currently taking up her PhD in Comparative Biology from the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, United States. She is studying twisted-wing insect parasites (Strepsiptera) where she is making thorough use of the collections at the American Museum of Natural History to investigate their host-parasite relationships, evolution, and genomics.

Rose De Guzman is a research fellow at the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology department at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Some of her current research interests include maternal-infant neuro health, neurodevelopment, sex differences and stress among others.

Shannen Recio is a research intern at Eerkens Anthropology Lab where she studies ancient diet, diseases, and forensics.