Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars:

2019-2021: Dr. Mingqin Chang (currently Graduate Research Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst)

2016-2019: Dr. Michel Ruiz Rosquete (Senior Scientist, The Salk Institute, 6th PAPMBW travel award (2018))

2016-2017: Dr. Eunsook Park (currently Assistant Professor at University of Wyoming)

2014-2015: Dr. Stephen McDowell (currently Assistant Professor at Cosumnes River College)


Graduate Students:

2017-2024: Rosalie Sinclair

2013-2021: Destiny Davis (NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (2014), Best oral presentation PBGG Colloquium (2015), Monsanto Biotechnology Fellowship (2016), PLS travel award (2016-2018))

2010-2016: Dr. Natasha Worden (graduated in 2016, worked at Biotech industry, ASPB travel award (2015), Best Student poster GRC Plant Cell Walls 2012, Monsanto Biotechnology Fellowship, NSF Create Fellowship, Plant Sciences GSR fellowship)


Undergraduate Students:

2023-2024: Annamarie Basco

2022-2023: Yiyang (Darren) Li

2022-2023: Rolando Lopez

2022-2023: Riya Shergil

2022-2024: Lindsey Kurtz

2022-2023: Leah Post

2022-2023: Komal Cheema

2022-2024: Hoang Tuan Mai

2021-2024: Shaina Eagle (currently in graduate school)

2021-2023: Alisa Chernikova

2021-2022: Kaleigh Bedell

2020-2024: Skyler Wong (currently in graduate school)

2020-2021: Corrine Matthews

2020-2021: Karen Nguyen

2020-2021: Jose Zamora

2019: Akaash Prasaf  UCD, BUSP

2019: Maximilian Probstel (currently in graduate school)

2018-2019: Fiona Dale-Huang

2017-2019: Oliver Betz (UCD Plant Biology Major award recipient. Currently in biotech industry)

2018: Angelica Tujo

2017: Emily Mabry

2017: Neije Mukherjee-Roy

2015-2016: Nathan Jane (Outstanding Student Award in Biotechnology, Provost Undergraduate Fellow, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 2016. UCSD graduate school)

2015-2016: Marissa Huston

2016: Sean Mackey

2016: Shannon Mayhew

2016: Lester Huynh

2015: Juvenal Quezada

2015: Janine Holub 

2014: Gurpreet Srai (graduated pharmacy school)

2014: Erin McGinnis

2013-2014: Vikram Singh

2013-2014: McKenzie Winter

2012-2013: Thu Le (graduated pharmacy school and UCSF)

2012-2013: Shawn Higdon (PhD graduate of the PBI graduate program at UCD)

2012-2013: Alana Barton

2012: Loan Luong

2012: Katherine Wood (graduate student at MSU)

2012: Megan Schmit Buffalo

2011: Htwe Hlaing (currently at Genentech)

2011: Kenneth Lam

2011: Sanchia Mills (NSF REU student)

201: Lyn Kwan

2011: Ilse Argueta (UCSC school of medicine)

2011: Navim Mobin

2011: Grace Kichio

2011: Lee Yang

2010-2011: Laura Putnam

2010: Dinusha Maheepala Mudalige (PhD graduate of UCR)

2010: Thao Nguyen (NSF REU student)

2010: Amy Wong

2010: Maian Ngo


Former Visiting International Scholars:

2020: Hongguang Pang (Hebei Agricultural University, China)

2020: Guangxi Ren (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China)

2020: Yuhang Shao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)

2021-2022: Adrian Dauphinee (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

2018-2019: Dr. Shahab Madahhosseini (University of Rafsanjan, Iran)

2018: Tereza Ticha (Palacký University, Czech Republic)

2017: Wenlong Bao (Beijing Forestry University, China)

2016-2017: Hou-Ling Wang (Beijing Forestry University, China)

2016-2017: Yukun Cheng (Sichuan Agricultural University, China)

2016: Alessandra Quartararo (University of Palermo, Italy)

2015-2016: Longjun Chen (Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China)

2015: Rachel Röhrich (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

2014: Dechao Duan (Zhejiang University, China)

2013-2014: Victor Esteva (University of Leida, Spain)

2013: Marta Miguet (University of Leida, Spain)


High School Students

2022-2023: Ritika Surana

2022-2023: Jacqueline Schmidt

2022-2023: Evelyn Zhao

2022-2023: Alena Ross

2022-2023: Cameron Varughese

2021-2022: Siena Yang

2021-2022: Dua Hassan

2021-2022: Ashley Raffaeli

2020-2021: Natalie Oh

2020-2021: Anika Sagar

2020-2021: Alexander Zhou

2019: Phoebe Loo (accepted to Stanford University)

2018: Sean Fu (accepted to UC Berkeley)

2018: Connor Melendrez

2017-2018: Yolanda Shen (accepted to UC Berkeley)

2016: John Almazan

2015: Emily Dickinson

2015: Jake Brugger

2014: John Glista