Niels Klitgord studied Molecular/Cell Biology, minoring in Chemistry, for his undergraduate degree at the University of New Mexico, receiving his B.Sc. in 2000 with honors. His senior research project involved characterizing the promoter region of the Mef2 gene in Drosophila. Following graduation, he worked first for the biotech company Exelixis in California, running high throughput reverse-genet...