| Student Name |
Research Interest |
Professor |
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| Shajahan Anver |
Circadian regulation of plant growth and development |
Stacey Harmer |
| Kai Battenberg |
I am interested in the evolutionary history of the symbiotic relationship between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria and the organogenesis of nodules. When and where did this happen? What evolutionary event (genetic change) occurred in the common ancestor of all the nitrogen-fixing plants? |
Alison Berry |
| Geoffrey Benn |
Plant stress perception and signal transduction. |
Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh |
| Paul Bilinski |
Genomic Evolution of Repetitive and Heterochromatic Regions in Zea
Adaptive Potential of Genome Size in Grass |
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra |
| Barbara Blanco-Ulate |
Studying ripening-associated susceptibility to pathogens, using the tomato fruit/Botrytis pathosystem. |
Ann Powell |
| Timothy Butterfield |
I am interested in plant secondary compounds - their biosynthesis, the regulation of the enzymes responsible for catalyzing the synthetic reactions, their activities as plant protective compounds, and their toxic or anti-nutritive activities in herbivores. |
Abhaya M. Dandekar |
| Daniel Caddell |
Xa21-Mediated Disease Resistance in Rice
|
Pamela Ronald |
| Leonela Carriedo |
Light regulated development |
Julin Maloof |
| Elenor Castillo |
|
Florence Zakharov |
| Tsung-Chi Chen |
|
Pamela Ronald |
| Zachary Chestnut |
How cell walls influence plant-microbe interactions with an emphasis on Pierce's Disease in grapevines. |
John Labavitch |
| Jason Corwin |
Quantitative resistance in natural populations of plant hosts (Arabidopsis thaliana) to necrotrophic pathogens (Botrytis cinerea) |
Dan Kliebenstein |
| Destiny Davis |
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Georgia Drakakaki |
| Philip Day |
Evolution of beta-barrel proteins in the chloroplast outer-envelope membrane. |
Kentaro Inoue |
| Sarah Dohle |
Plant Evolution, Domestication, Breeding, Lima Beans |
Paul Gepts |
| Joseph Edwards |
Composition and function of the rice microbiome |
Venkatesan Sundaresan |
| James Elmore |
|
Gitta Coaker |
| Joshua Endow |
I am interested in the mechanisms and significance of membrane targeting and complex formation of Plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 (Plsp1), an integral membrane protein present both in the envelope and thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. |
Kentaro Inoue |
| Jenna Gallegos |
|
Alan Rose |
| Allison Gaudinier |
|
Siobhan Brady |
| Hossein Gouran |
|
Abhaya M. Dandekar |
| Jennifer Gray |
Circadian regulation of transcription factors in Arabidopsis |
Stacey Harmer |
| Mitchell Harkenrider |
Abiotic and biotic stress response networks. |
Pamela Ronald |
| Gena Hoffman |
My research goal is to identify novel regulators of PRR-mediated immune responses in rice based on a genome-scale network of rice genes established by the Ronald lab, called RiceNet. |
Pamela Ronald |
| Polly Yingshan Hsu |
Circadian rhythms, especially gene expression controlled by the clock. |
Stacey Harmer |
| Elizabeth Karn |
Evolution of resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) in agricultural weeds |
Marie Jasieniuk |
| Brad Kaufman |
Mechanisms of imprinting in the endosperm within and between species |
Luca Comai |
| Rachel Kerwin |
|
Dan Kliebenstein |
| Ryan Kirkbride |
Using laser-capture microdissection and transcriptomics to understand seed development, evolution, and pattern formation. |
John J. Harada |
| Mark Lemos |
|
Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh |
| Dan Lin |
I am interested in studying the molecular mechanisms that govern plant innate immunity. |
Gitta Coaker |
| Ciera Martinez |
Broadly, I am interested in the evolution of plant morphology. Specifically, the phytohormone auxin and how it influences leaf shape diversity. |
Neelima R. Sinha |
| Cecilia Osorio |
|
M. Andrew Walker |
| Daniel Park |
Invasion Biology, Community Phylogenetics, Ecology |
Daniel Potter |
| Jorge Perez Zabala |
Herbarium management, Tropical floristics, Plant Biogeography, Plant systematics and evolution, Conservation Biology, Tropical and subtropical Rosaceae. |
Daniel Potter |
| Bpantamars Phadungchob |
|
Theodore Hsiao |
| Amanda Schrager |
I am studying shade avoidance in domesticated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum. |
Julin Maloof |
| Xiaoya Song |
1. Factors that regulate the female gametophyte development in Arabidopsis
2. How the auxin and cytokinin networks could specialize the egg cell and central cell identities.
|
Venkatesan Sundaresan |
| Anandkumar Surendrarao |
Proteolytic control of nodulation signaling in M. truncatula during symbiotic interaction with S. meliloti |
Douglas Cook |
| Mallorie Taylor-Teeples |
Mapping root secondary cell wall gene regulatory networks in space and time |
Siobhan Brady |
| MAYSAYA THITISAKSAKUL |
Regulation of carbon allocation and partitioning in response to salinity stress. |
Diane Beckles |
| Bradley Townsley |
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Neelima R. Sinha |
| Rie Uzawa |
|
John J. Harada |
| Minmin Wang |
Branched-chain amino acid metabolism involved in melon aroma biosynthesis |
Florence Zakharov |
| Alexander Wilson |
|
Lin Tian |
| Natasha Worden |
Studying the endomembrane trafficking pathways involved in cell wall biosynthesis using chemical genomics. |
Georgia Drakakaki |
| FeiYian Yoong |
QTL mapping on thermodormancy and other breeding traits in lettuce seeds. |
Kent J. Bradford |
| Yan Zhuang |
Studying physical properties associated with grape berry cracking. |
Ken Shackel |