Students
Evelyn Abraham
Graduate Student Investigating the role of plant-environmental interactions on antimicrobial secondary metabolite production by metabolomics approaches
Christopher Benson
Graduate Student Epigenetic mechanisms of adaptability in turfgrass species Poa annua
Aditi Bhat
Graduate Student Investigating the molecular mechanisms and mode of rapid growth inhibition in Arabidopsis thaliana roots
Jishnu Bhatt
Graduate Student Propagation systems of Dioscorea spp. for African food security
Cassidy Cornblatt
Graduate Student Mechanisms of receptor-like kinase-dependent mechanical signaling
Adam Damon
Graduate Student Investigating the effects of parasitization of Helicoverpa zea and Spodoptera frugiperda caterpillars by Cotesia wasps on herbivory-induced defense responses in tomato
Cody DePew
Plant Biology Graduate Student - Monshausen Lab Role of auxin in ionic signaling and root growth
Isaac Dopp
Graduate Student Nucleosome modifications in MSH1-mediated transgenerational stress memory
Sydney Duncombe
Graduate Student Cell wall structure and formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Sihui Gao
Graduate Student Genetic mapping and breeding for late blight resistance in tomato using two wild accessions
Jeremy Held
Graduate Student Genetic control of the hypersensitive response in Nicotiana spp. to Erwinia amylovora
Vicki Hsieh-Feng
Graduate Student Improving CRISPR/Cas genome editing for rice precision breeding
Youran Huang
Graduate Student Integrating cellular iron compartmentalization mechanisms
Collin Hudzik
Graduate Student Cuscuta campestris microRNAs targeting tomato host mRNAs
Elizabeth Kelly
Graduate Student Host selection and gene regulation of generalist parasitic plants
Evelyn Kulesza
Graduate Student Genetic and environmental effects on cocoa butter diversity
Francisco Menendez Burns
Graduate Student Metallo-biology of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L.
Ya Chi Nien
Graduate Student Interfere small RNA biogenesis machinery by utilizing host-induced gene silencing system in Cuscuta campestris
Sarah Pfaff
Graduate Student Investigating nascent cell wall regeneration in protoplasts
Matthew Sheltra
Graduate Student Breeding and population genetics of turfgrass Agrostis stolonifera, and mechanism of fungus-induced hermaphroditism in Bouteloua dactyloides
Linhan Sun
Graduate Student Mechanism of S-RNase-based self-incompatibility in Petunia inflata
Donghui Wei
Graduate Student The mechanism of endocytosis of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis
