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Amilcar Perez is from Los Angeles CA where he attended UCLA for a B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. There, he fell in love with research originally studying bacterial cell-cell communication. He obtained his PhD studying the mechanisms controlling cell division in the pathogen S. pneumoniae in Dr. Malcolm Winkler’s lab at Indiana University, Bloomington. Now, he is interested in studying E. coli cell wall envelope biogenesis in Dr. Xiao’s lab using single molecule imaging methods. When not in lab, you can find Amilcar exercising , enjoying nature, or tending to his house plants.