User:Elianna L. Peak
About Elianna Goldstein
Elianna is a science teacher at Maryknoll High School in Honolulu, HI. She teaches 9th grade conceptual physics, as well as 10th/11th grade Chemistry B/ Biology A.
Current Research
Elianna is working on a project in nutrition in melon.
Outside Interests
Elianna loves the outdoors, from a day in the park to distance 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, and making jewelry.
Previous Research
2006-2008 Elianna was a graduate student in the Comai Labworking on a project on the trait of survival of aneuploid offspring, in the model system, Arabidopsis thaliana. She also looked at ploidy of various Camellina species in collaboration with an evolutionary study being done by Targeted Growth, Inc.
2005-2006 Elianna was a lab technician for the COGA project in the Goate Lab at the Washington University School of Medicine, department of Psychiatry, working on marker association studies with Alcoholism in a family based(not case-control) study.
2005 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 strata at the Raffman site in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
