Calvin Davis is an undergraduate student pursuing a bachelor of science in biology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.  When he first joined the Perkel laboratory in the summer of 2019 he began a preliminary investigation on the effects streptomycin may have on birds ability to perch and developed methods to dissect the avian spinal cord. Currently, he is working with other members of the lab to better understand how the unique lumbosacral region of bird spinal cords is organized and how it may contribute to their balancing behavior.