This project helped improve my communication skills through the presentation of the results to both a technical and non technical audience. I will learned how to effectively communicate when talking about my work, ensuring to change my language, to provide the greatest level of understanding to the audience.
Throughout this project, I have learned how to use critical thinking skills to not only learn new tequniques within bioinofrmatics and geonomics but also over come challenges when treditional techniques will not work perfectly with the data that our project contained.
This research allowed me as a student to continue learning about genomics and bioinformatics along with experiencing cutting-edge techniques that are used in biology. From this project, I learned about the evolutionary biology of scale insects and gain experience working in the field and the lab along with the techniques assoicated with this work.