Eva is starting her senior year at The Chapin School in New York City this fall. Born in Los Angeles, she attended elementary school in Beijing and moved to the U.S. for middle school. In her sophomore year, Eva led a trimester-long research project comparing bacterial colonies on Whole Foods triple-washed spinach to Whole Foods triple-washed plus household-washed spinach, recommending the extra wash. In her junior year, with the Stan-X program and Chapin, she created a Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) line, D.eva (SX4Ch.1333), with the SX4 P element inserted on the 2nd chromosome between a gene coding for Topoisomerase I-interacting protein and an unnamed gene (Dmel\CG18605), which are both reported to be related to the human eye disease retinitis pigmentosa. The stocks are now stored at Stanford University and Indiana University’s Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center for future research. This summer, while interning at the Wang Laboratory, Eva hopes to learn more about molecular genetics, chromosome/chromatin folding, new technologies, and the science industry. She enjoys watching Netflix/documentaries, knitting, and visiting museums in her free time. She hopes to become a biologist but remains open to different possibilities, having once been a history and humanities enthusiast in middle school.