Students
Evelyn Abraham
Graduate Student Investigating the role of plant-environmental interactions on antimicrobial secondary metabolite production by metabolomics approaches
Savannah Anez
Graduate Student Characterizing the phytochemistry and bioactivity of a native Appalachian plant, ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Christopher Benson
Graduate Student Epigenetic mechanisms of adaptability in turfgrass species Poa annua
Jishnu Bhatt
Graduate Student Biotechnology and functional genomics of Theobroma cacao
Francisco Chacon
Graduate Student Medicinal plant metabolomics and natural product discovery
Lillian Cherry
Graduate Student Phenotypic plasticity of plant-microbe interactions in response to environmental stress
Isaac Dopp
Graduate Student Nucleosome modifications in MSH1-mediated transgenerational stress memory
Sydney Duncombe
Graduate Student Cell wall structure and formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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
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
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
Yuxin Luo
Graduate Student Selection of natural environmental variations on the genetic and phenotypic traits of Arabidopsis thaliana
Francisco Menendez Burns
Graduate Student Metallo-biology of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L.
Andrew Miles
Graduate Student Microbiome and metabolomic analysis of phytoplasma infected American Elm (Ulmus americana)
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
Anthony Taylor
Graduate Student Conflict and cooperation in the evolution of plant viral genomes
Donghui Wei
Graduate Student The mechanism of endocytosis of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis
Robert Witkowski
Graduate Student Evolution of plant chemical defense in goldenrod (Solidago altissima L.)
Vyankatesh Zambare
Graduate Student Understanding stomatal mechanobiology in Arabidopsis thaliana
