{"id":705,"date":"2025-11-14T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/?page_id=705"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:54:39","slug":"yajaira-ponce-moran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/yajaira-ponce-moran\/","title":{"rendered":"Yajaira Ponce Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-699 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-1377x1536.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/11\/YPM_Lab_PIC-1836x2048.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">I am Yajaira, an MSc student in the Tierney lab. I completed my undergraduate degree in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, where I first became interested in how aquatic organisms interact with their environments. My research investigates how biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) influence olfactory-driven homing behaviors in salmon, using zebrafish as a model organism. In my free time I enjoy cooking, hiking, and foraging for wild foods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Yajaira, an MSc student in the Tierney lab. I completed my undergraduate degree in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, where I first became interested in how aquatic organisms interact with their environments. My research investigates how biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) influence olfactory-driven homing behaviors in salmon, using zebrafish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2150,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/tierney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}