Bio
Dr. Zhao received her B.S. in Life Science from Beijing Normal University in China. She completed her Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at University of California, Riverside in the laboratory of Wendy Saltzman in 2018. Following her Ph.D., she moved to Stanford for her postdoctoral work in the lab of Katrin J Svensson, studying endocrinology in mammalian energy metabolism.
Honors & Awards
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Charlotte Mangum Student Support, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2018)
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Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Riverside (2018)
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GradFest Best Student Talk, Department of Biology, UC Riverside (2018)
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Vaughan H. Shoemaker Graduate Fellowship, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, UC Riverside (2017)
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Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Award, Department of Biology, UC Riverside (2013)
Professional Education
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Bachelor of Science, Beijing Normal University (2013)
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Doctor of Philosophy, University of California Riverside (2018)