Students

Savannah Anez

Graduate Student
Characterizing the phytochemistry and bioactivity of a native Appalachian plant, ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora)

Jishnu Bhatt

Graduate Student
Biotechnology and functional genomics of Theobroma cacao

Francisco Chacon

Graduate Student
Medicinal plant metabolomics and natural product discovery

Elsa Chen

Graduate Student

Alisa Chernikova

Graduate Student
Sustainable applications of cell wall material

Anuleka Dutta

Graduate Student
Developing plant-inspired actuated hybrid robots spanning from macro to nano scales

Guanhua Feng

Graduate Student
Regulation of flower development by epigenetic and other mechanisms

Maria Alejandra Gil Polo

Graduate Student
Measuring long-term adaptation of rhizobia and non-rhizobia bacteria to different alfalfa varieties

Alenka Hafner

Graduate Student
Plant phenotypic plasticity, stress adaptation and epigenetic memory

Yue Han

Graduate Student
Ion signaling in plant defense responses

Jeremy Held

Graduate Student
Genetic control of the hypersensitive response in Nicotiana spp. to Erwinia amylovora

Youran Huang

Graduate Student
Integrating cellular iron compartmentalization mechanisms

Ilhyeong Jo

Graduate Student
Improving CRISPR/Cas genome editing tools for functional genomics and crop improvement

Elizabeth Kelly

Graduate Student
Host selection and gene regulation of generalist parasitic plants

Noah Kinscherf

Graduate Student
Role of plant G proteins in modulating diverse stress responses