Arjun Sharmah

Postdoc co-supervised with Ting Guo

Development of highly specific nanosensor for abscisic acid (ABA) detection. The plant hormone ABA is involved in many of the plant development processes as well response signaling for various environmental stresses.

Dan Gao

Undergraduate

Studying tomato root development in response to phosphate starvation stress.

Ayumi Gothberg

Undergraduate

Tomato root responses to water stress. Tomato root gene expression profiling.

Hannah Vahldick

Technician

Currently working as a technician in the lab of Matthew Evans at the Carnegie Institute of Plant Science

Alan Rodriguez

Undergraduate

Selection of transgenic S. lycopersicum cv. M82 and S. pennellii lines, and generating DNA sequencing libraries for T-DNA capture for identification of insert number and location.

Undergraduate

Anatomical changes in tomato roots in response to water stress. Yeast one hybrid assays.

Niba Nirmal

Undergraduate

Analyzing the responses to water stresses in tomato root systems using histochemistry. Functional annotation of the tomato suberin biosynthesis pathway using CRISPR/Cas9.

Freenome Computation Biologist

Don Gibson

PhD Student

Identifying genes controlling Arabidopsis and Tomato root development.

Michelle Tang

PhD Student co-supervised with Dan Kliebenstein

Constructing a modular network of transcriptional regulation of primary metabolism.