Tanya Renner

Principal Investigator

Tanya Renner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology and a Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences co-hire. Tanya is an organismal biologist that uses integrative methods in studying biodiversity, molecular evolution, genomics, biochemistry, physiology, and morphology. She is especially interested in the evolution of chemical and structural defense mechanisms. Her favorite study systems are plants and insects.​

EDUCATION

2011 | Ph.D. Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

• Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Fellow in Environmental Sciences

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2006 | Biology, summa cum laude, San Diego State University

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