Researcher standing next to a freshly caught Atlantic bluefin tuna at a wharf
Researcher sitting in a genetics la, using a multi-channel pipette to transfer DNA to new tubes
Researcher in a genetics lab, preparing to cut 96 samples of tuna muscle tissue for DNA extraction
Iris Jia (Valle) is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick Saint John 🇨🇦 exploring #genomic differences in #AtlanticBluefinTuna populations.
She uses recently developed tools like #haplotagging to investigate how #genes are affecting recovery and migratory behavior.