My name is Daniel Darling and I am originally from Mountain View CA. After graduating from NYU in the spring of 2021, I continued at NYU as a post-bac in the Smith Lab where I studied biases of ribonucleotide incorporation and removal in the yeast genome. My developmental path within biology has let me explore a variety of different subfields from myogenic differentiation to wine fermentation which together have refined my research interests towards the role of chromatin structure in regulatory networks. This has led me to pursue a PhD at UCSF within the TETRAD program where I am currently in my first year. Outside of research I am an illustrator across a variety of mediums, but currently am working mostly with watercolor. I also love climbing and am looking forward to doing some outdoor bouldering in the bay and beyond.