Trieu joined the lab in the summer of 2008, following her freshman year at Harvard College, and participated in a prooject on germ cell fate determination in Parhyale hawaiensis embryos through to the summer prior to her senior year. Shereceived support from the Harvard College Research Program and the Museum of Comparative Zoology Grants-In-Aid of Undergraduate Researchduring her time in the lab. She graduated from Harvard in May 2011. Trieu is currently a user reseracher for Balluun in Foster City, CA, and plans to attend medical school in the future.