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Giovani Pimentel-Solorio
Undergraduate Researcher

​University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology
Office: 4095 Valley Life Sciences Building
gpimentel [at] berkeley [dot] edu

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EDUCATION

• ​University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor's Degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, 2019 - 2023
  
• ​Data Science

BACKGROUND

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student from Sacramento at the University of California, Berkeley. When I am not in the lab, I enjoy exercising, traveling, and reading.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in bioinformatics, biochemistry, and genetics. I enjoy programming in Python and R and working in the lab. During my time in the Whiteman Lab, I researched the evolution of detoxification and chemosensation in Scaptomyza flava by analyzing genetic changes across the PPK, UGT, and GST gene families.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

• Center for Computational Biology Internship, September 2021 - present
• UCLA Bruins-in-Genomics Internship (NSF-REU), Summer 2021
• Whiteman Lab Undergraduate Researcher, February 2020 - June 2021
• UC Davis Immunology Research Assistant, Summer 2018

PROJECTS

• Investment Simulator

An app made with R Shiny that simulates different investments in stocks and/or bonds and how they progress over time. The probability of reaching the desired amount in an investment is also calculated.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Koret Research Fellowship, 2022
• Ronald E. McNair Scholar, 2021 - 2022
• BSP Research Fellow, 2021 - 2022
• UC Berkeley Leadership Award

PUBLICATIONS

• Peláez, J.N., Gloss, A.D., Goldman-Huertas, B., Kim, B., Lapoint, R.T., Pimentel-Solorio, G., Verster, K.I., Aguilar, J.M., Dittrich, A.C.N., Singhal, M., Suzuki, H.C., Matsunaga, T., Armstrong, E.E., Charboneau, J.L., Groen, S.C., Hembry, D.H., Ochoa, C.J., O’Connor, T.K., Prost, S., Zaaijer, S., Nabity, P.D., Wang, J., Rodas, E., Liang, I., Whiteman, N.K. (2023). Evolution of chemosensory and detoxification gene families across herbivorous Drosophilidae. BioRxiv.