Julia McDonough.

Julia G. McDonough

Master's with Thesis Student

Pronouns
she/her
College
Kennedy College of Sciences
Department
Biological Sciences, Sustainable Water Innovations in Materials – Mentoring, Education and Research (SWIMMER)
Office
Olsen Hall, Room 413B
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Expertise

Marine Biology

Research Interests

Epigenetics, climate change, marine biology

Education

  • B.S.: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Rochester

Biosketch

Julia received her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Rochester. As an undergraduate student and later as a lab technician, she worked on a quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping project in pea aphids to identify causative genomic regions responsible for a phenotypically plastic trat. Julia joined Assistant Professor Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn’s lab at UMass Lowell in Fall 2023, where she now works on investigating the molecular response of climate change-induced carryover effects in oysters. Julia’s long-term research goal is to better understand how climate change impacts an organism’s response on a molecular level, especially in marine ecosystems.