Seth Perez
she/her
Undergraduate Student
Trainee
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Seth’s research focuses on age-related macular degeneration, with experience across ecology, biodiversity data, entomology, and molecular biology. She has contributed to long-term Tribolium research in the Germain Ecology Lab, biodiversity data work through the Living Data Project, and RNAi bioassays at Renaissance BioScience. She is currently completing a Directed Studies project in the Matsubara Lab, where she is gaining experience with RPE cell culture, tissue work, Western blotting, RNA extraction, PCR, and related molecular techniques. Her goal is to continue building expertise in molecular biology and genomics while contributing to research on ocular disease.