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Welcome to the PEAR lab, focusing on the political economy of agriculture and rural development. The lab brings together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates with an interest in the comparative study of rural development, focusing on historical, geospatial and survey-based data collection...

For a more updated list of research interests and publications, please visit my google scholar profile Biological Physics: Cell Mechanics/Mechanobiology. Current research is revealing that mechanical forces are important to biology in a variety of ways: think of muscles contracting, or tissues being...

I am a project scientist in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California Merced. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Washington State University in 2010 and also have degrees in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Since 2011, I have been working with climatologist Dr. John...

The Climate Toolbox 2015 - Present, CIRC I'm a web developer for The Climate Toolbox -- a set of web tools at ClimateToolbox.org for visualizing summaries of climate datasets on maps and graphs utilizing climate data from the past and forecasts and projections for the future. This project is led by...

Graduate Students Dr. Christi Turner Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Group My research is focused on understanding how CXCR5+ CD8 T follicular cells shift their dynamics in response to systemic lupus erythematosus. We are interested in understanding their phenotypic expression in response...