Fall 2022 from left to right: Carolin Frank, PI, Chris Bivins, 1st year QSB student; Andrea Salinas, 2nd year QSB student, Iolanda Ramalho da Silva, Postdoc/lecturer; Jorge Montiel, ES PhD as of summer 2021.
Spring 2020 from left to right: Andrea Salinas, 2nd year QSB student; Iolanda Ramalho da Silva, Postdoc; Carolin Frank, PI; Jackie Shay, QSB PhD as of summer 2021; Oscar Elias, former research staff; James Kupihea, ES PhD candidate; and Jorge Montiel, ES PhD as of summer 2021.
Carolin Frank (Principal Investigator) Associate Professor Carolin Frank has a M.S. in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala School of Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Evolution from Uppsala University, where she worked on molecular microbial evolution with Dr. Siv Andersson. Carolin briefly worked on the molecular evolution of yeast genomes as a Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Ken Wolfe at Trinity College, Dublin before joining the UC Merced faculty.
Phone: (209) 617 4641 Email: cfrank3 [at] ucmerced [dot] edu
Carolin Frank's Lab 
