Liao Lab Welcomes Esra Goturk

Please welcome Esra Goturk to Whitney Laboratory! She recently joined Dr. James Liao's lab as the laboratory manager. In addition to managing the Liao Lab, Esra will assist in fish migration and conservation research.

Esra graduated from Virginia Tech in 2016 with a B.S. in Fish and Wildlife Science, where she worked on black bear behavioral research and elasmobranch population studies. In 2020 she earned her M.S. degree in Biology studying shifts in marine fisheries populations under climate change from East Carolina University, where she worked as a scientific diver and scuba instructor.