Erick was an undergraduade student from the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH). He participated in the Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) Program two years in a row: in the summer of 2012 he worked in the lab of Elena Kramer, and in the summer of 2013 he worked with Tripti Gupta in our lab to test and characterize Gal4 and UAS lines in different Drosophilid species. He is a recipient of the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)scholarship. He is currently a PhD student in the Kronforst lab at the University of Chicago.