A person smiling for a picture. — Majken Horton (BS '22, Genetics and Genomics) participated in the Young Scholars Program, which is administered by the School of Education and engages high school students in hands-on research in the laboratories of UC Davis faculty.

CBS Alum Takes Passion for Research to the Genome Center

by UC Davis Staff
May 02, 2023

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Genetics and genomics major an alum of School of Education's Young Scholars Program works in the Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar Lab during the program.

This article originally appeared on the College of Biological Sciences News.

Growing up, Majken Horton (pronounced MY-ken; B.S. ’22) always wanted to know how things worked. She’d study the property she lived on with her parents in Loomis, Calif., and spend summers exploring Alaska with them. Her parents, both UC Davis alumni and salmon biologists, encouraged her to investigate the tiny ecosystems she found and look them up in books to learn their ways.

“I was very, very into the scientific method,” said Majken. Fast forward to now, and she’s “grown a lot in understanding what we value as research, and how we value it,” and works as an academic researcher in the laboratory of Luca Comai, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center. She credits a big part of this growth to her participation in the UC Davis School of Education’s Young Scholars Program (YSP).

Read the full article here.