Students
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
Victoria DeLeo
Biology Graduate Student - Lasky Lab Landscape genetics and local adaptation in tropical dry forest trees
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
Mengyuan Jia
Graduate Student Fine mapping tomato Late Blight resistance gene and breeding Late Blight resistant tomato with marker-assisted selection
Nathan Johnson
Graduate Student Annotation of small RNA producing loci in major crop plants and model organisms
Elizabeth Kelly
Graduate Student Host selection and gene regulation of generalist parasitic plants
Stephanie Klein
Graduate Student Maize root metaxylem traits that enhance drought resistance
Benjamin Knollenberg
Graduate Student Stilbene metabolism in cacao: role in defense and biosynthetic pathway elucidation
Francisco Menendez Burns
Graduate Student Metallo-biology of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L.
Miranda Niemiec
Graduate Students Maize root traits enhancing nutrient and water acquisition
Sarah Pfaff
Graduate Student Investigating nascent cell wall regeneration in protoplasts
Jenna Reeger
Graduate Student Genetic controls of rice root anatomical traits and how these traits affect rice drought avoidance
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