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Michael Perry began his biology journey as an undergraduate and M.S. student at the University of Florida, where he worked at the Florida Museum of Natural History, collecting butterflies from field sites that spanned the Rocky Mountains to the cloud forests of Costa Rica. His initial interest in understanding the molecular origins of diversity encountered in the field gradually shifted towards developmental biology and gene regulation during his Ph.D. research at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Mike Levine and Nipam Patel, which was supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. He later combined his diverse interests in evolution and developmental biology while serving as a postdoctoral fellow in Claude Desplan's lab at New York University. Michael is a recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein and Charles H. Revson Foundation fellowships and the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the NIH National Eye Institute. He joined the Division of Biological Sciences faculty at UC San Diego in March 2019.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Research on insect visual systems and the genetic basis of nervous system development and evolution.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).