Erica Jackson

Erica is an undergraduate student in her third year at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a pre-veterinary major in the College of Natural Sciences and is also a member of the Commonwealth Honors College. She strives to pursue a career as a veterinarian, in a zoo, focusing on captive propagation. As a part of Dr. Gervasi’s Embryo Project, she is writing her thesis with the objective of understanding the molecular basis of the observed enhancement in embryo development induced by manipulation of the male gamete.