Rio Stamler

Rio was born and raised in southern New Mexico. He has always been fascinated by plants and began helping his mom in the garden at a young age. He started working in a plant biotech lab during his freshman year of college at New Mexico State University where he gained experience in plant pathology, micropropagation, genomics and analytical chemistry. For the last 6 years Rio worked in Davis CA as an industry scientist focused on plant pathology, protoplast based gene editing and transformation and cell biology.