Riana Hunter
Graduate Student Researcher
Riana grew up in San Diego and attended Mills College in Oakland for her undergraduate degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Her first undergraduate lab job was working on the behavioral ecology of social mammals under Dr. Jennifer Smith. As part of this work, during undergrad she spent much of her time recording social interactions of a population of California ground squirrels.
Following graduation, her first lab position was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab doing mammalian functional genomics work. Since starting her career, Riana has worked with the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the Joint Genome Institute on several projects relating to human embryonic development, mammalian enhancer biology, and plant-fungal interactions in biofuel crops.
When not in the lab, Riana can be found sitting on the beach, working on an art project, or watching a Sci-Fi show with her pet snake, Bucatini.
Following graduation, her first lab position was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab doing mammalian functional genomics work. Since starting her career, Riana has worked with the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the Joint Genome Institute on several projects relating to human embryonic development, mammalian enhancer biology, and plant-fungal interactions in biofuel crops.
When not in the lab, Riana can be found sitting on the beach, working on an art project, or watching a Sci-Fi show with her pet snake, Bucatini.