User:Elianna L. Peak

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About Elianna Goldstein

Elianna Goldstein is a graduate student researcher in the Comai Lab at the UC Davis Genome Center. She is in the Plant Biology Graduate Group and pursuing a her degree with a Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology.


Current Research

I am working on a project on the trait of survival of aneuploid offspring, in the model system, Arabidopsis thaliana. My long-term goal is to determine how natural variation affects the response to aneuploidy.

Outside Interests

Elianna loves the outdoors, from a day in the park to running to backpacking. She is also a member of the UC Davis women's ultimate team, the Pleiades.


She enjoys taking things apart and putting them back together.

Previous Work

Elianna was a lab technician for the COGA project in the Goate Lab at the Washington University School of Medicine, department of Psychiatry.

She has an AB in archaeology and biology from Washington University in St Louis. She did her senior capstone project in Dr. Gayle Fritz's Lab. The research was a paleoethnobotanical analysis of flotation samples from Cole's Creek period levels at the Raffman site in Madison Parish, Louisiana.