Emily Thornton is a first-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Karl Clark’s lab from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics, studying functional, applied, and behavioral genetics in zebrafish and livestock species. Prior to joining the lab, she attended TAMU at Galveston, where she received undergraduate degrees in Marine Biology and Marine Fisheries. Following her B.S. she continued her education at TAMU Galveston, where she defended her master’s thesis, “Population genomics of the Roosterfish (Nematistius pectoralis) along its endemic Eastern Pacific Ocean distribution.