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Dr. Thomas Aller: A Career in Focus

By James Florence, Diamond Certified Resource Reporter

SAN BRUNO — When he was in college, Dr. Thomas Aller first considered a career in animal research, but he eventually shifted his focus toward a more human-centered vocation. “I was studying animal behavior at UC Berkeley—I figured I was going to teach Koko the gorilla to write Shakespeare or something useful like that,” he laughs. “However, I ultimately concluded that a life of doing research wasn’t for me, and I went into optom...