Interview with Chris Hittinger

Chris Hittinger was born in Indianapolis Indiana. At the age of around five he was greatly interested in Paleontology, and once he entered middle school he discovered the explaining power of genetics and was immediately intrigued. He Attended Southeast Missouri State University and he is now working on his finishing graduate school. Although has not completed college, he now experimenting with transcriptions factor that tell what genes to be expressed. He is now doing research in Dr. Carroll's lab with a group of very diverse scientist. His work in the lab is very independent to that of all the other scientist but it is mostly research based on answering basic evolutionary questions. He hopes to one day be able to contribute to the scientific community by developing a story that many will be interested in. He has many projects he hopes to complete before exiting graduate school but he aspires to one day run his own lab.
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