My name is Odbayar Tumendemberel, and I am from Mongolia. I received my bachelor's and master's degrees from the National University of Mongolia. For 9 years, I worked at the Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, where I collaborated on several animal species projects, including argali sheep, wild boar, Eurasian red squirrel, Korean field mouse, snow leopards, and mainly focused on brown bears in Mongolia. I pursued my Ph.D. at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where I studied the demography of the endangered Gobi bears found in the Gobi Desert and the evolutionary history of brown bears in Central Asia. After completing my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral research scientist for two years at the University of Wyoming. I worked at the Eagle Fish Genetics Laboratory in Eagle ID as a fisheries laboratory technician II for 6 months. Recently, I was promoted to Fisheries Biologist/Geneticist overseeing the genetics work associated with the Redfish Lake sockeye salmon broodstock program and monitoring of integrated hatchery Chinook Salmon programs at McCall, Pahsimeroi, and Sawtooth hatcheries.