Alexander Cain

Alexander Cain has worked in various roles in the field of research since 2012. Alexander began their career as a Summer Intern at the Univerisity of San Diego, where they performed PCRs on chloroplast DNA and applied phylogenetic methods on chloroplast intron sequences. In 2015, they became a Student Assistant at the UC Davis Contained Research Facility, where they inspected, monitored, and maintained a Biosafety level III plant quarantine facility, studied Huang Long Bing, propagated plants for research, and maintained colonies of agricultural pest species of moths. In 2016, they joined the UC Davis O'Neill Lab as a Student Assistant, where they managed a greenhouse collection of 100 Vanilla orchids, measured fruit growth in wild Vanilla species, and propagated and tissue cultured rare Vanilla. From 2017 to 2020, they were a Graduate Student Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of California, Davis, where they investigated secondary metabolism and its role in wheat's interaction with the environment, interrogated the functions of phenolic metabolites in the plant's growth, development, and disease resistance, and assisted with teaching students a variety of subjects. In 2020, they joined Nobell Foods as a Senior Research Associate and Research Associate.

Alexander Cain attended the University of California, Davis from 2013 to 2017, where they earned a Bachelor's degree in Botany/Plant Biology. Alexander then continued their studies at the same university from 2017 to 2020, earning a Master's degree in Plant Biology.