Students
Christina Chiu
Research interests: Iron uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana, Medicago truncatula, and Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean).
Philip Engelgau
Research interests: Genomic and molecular factors which are responsible for desirable sensory traits in fruit such as taste, color and aroma.
Lina Gomez
Research interests: New genes involved in biosynthesis and regulation of phenolic compounds in maize and Arabidopsis.
Luke Gregory
Research interests: To challenge and expand current photosynthetic models to better represent the photorespiratory response to increased temperature.
Krystina Hird
Research interests: Elucidating the mechanism of cytochrome c nitrite reductase, a key enzyme in the global nitrogen cycle.
Xiaotong Jiang
Research interests: The role of photosynthesis and photorespiration under stress conditions.
Leah Johnson
Research interests: Understanding how plant defense responses and metabolism are shifted after stress, through studying the jasmonate signaling pathway.
Nathan Kelly
Research interests: How light, specifically the color of light, alters plant growth and secondary metabolism.
Kenia Segura Abá
Research interests: Use machine learning to predict condition-specific complex traits by integrating multi-omic and genetic interaction data.
Amanda Koenig
Research interests: Systemic lipid signaling and plant development in response to abiotic stress.
Emily Lanier
Research interests: Using synthetic biology to harness production of plant metabolites as high value chemicals for industry and medicine.
Moss Le
Research interests: Fungal biology, microbe-microbe interactions, host-pathogen interactions.
Serena Lotreck
Research interests: Using machine learning interpretability on model systems to study genetic interactions; information extraction and knowledge graph construction from plant biology literature.
Nick Moreno
Research interests: The role of plant metabolic chemistry in evolution and environmental interactions.
Kaila Smith
Research interests: Improving photosynthetic fluxes by increasing our understanding of the crosstalk between photosynthesis and photorespiration.
Febri Susanto
Research interests: Understanding the biogenesis of chloroplastic lipid droplets in Cyanobacteria and plant's plastoglobules for enhancement of crop stress resilience.
Joshua Temple
Research interests: Improving productivity and stress tolerance in algae and unraveling their underlying mechanisms.
Ethan Thibault
Research interests: Investigating and characterizing key players in stress response pathways in plants.
Samantha Thompson
Research interests: Fungicide resistance of grape powdery mildew and powdery mildew genomics.
Danielle Young
Research interests: Isotopic labeling and physiological measurements to trace the fluxes of lipids in a model microalga under various growth conditions.