Students

Graduate students in the PB Program represent a diverse range of interests, linked by their passion for plants. The graduate students form a tight knit group that are part of a broader community of approximately 150 graduate students training in three other interdepartmental graduate programs at the University: Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB); Neuroscience and Behavior (NSB); and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB). PB graduate students also interact with the 19 postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists that are associated with PB faculty labs.

Name Advisor Research Interest(s)
Logayn Abushal Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Ahmet Bakirbas

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology

Comfort Bonney Arku

First year lab rotation

Joni Rey Campilan Li–Jun Ma

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Banana Fusarium Wilt, Genomics and Genetics, Plant-Microbe Interactions

Archita Chatterjee Madelaine Bartlett

Associate Professor, Biology

Jedaidah Yombwe Chilufya

PhD Graduate Student

Dong Wang

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular interactions between symbiotic legumes and rhizobia bacteria

Rachel Cole

First year lab rotation

Amber De Neve

PhD Graduate Student

Madelaine Bartlett

Associate Professor, Biology

Jeremy Foote Giverson Mupambi

Extension Assistant Professor, Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment

Antonia Gray

PhD Graduate Student

Michelle Facette

Assistant Professor, Biology

Greg Gregory

PhD Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Gabriella Griffen

PhD Graduate Student

Rachel Hestrin

Assistant Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Hannah Hendrickson

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology

Iron homeostasis and transport in Arabidopsis

Ann Hicks

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology

Developing more effective iron biofortification of maize by targeted overexpression of endogenous genes.

Terice Kelly

First year lab rotation

Bahman Khahaninamin

PhD Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Genomics and protein-DNA interactions

Aizah Khurram Rachel Hestrin

Assistant Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Xiang Li

PhD Graduate Student

Ana Caicedo

Professor, Biology

Le Liu

PhD Graduate Student

Michelle Facette

Assistant Professor, Biology

Jefferson Lu

PhD Graduate Student

Michelle DaCosta

Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Bethany Lunsford

First year lab rotation

Ian McCahill

PhD Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall biosynthesis in grasses

Yvette Park

First year lab rotation

Erin Patterson

PhD Graduate Student

Madelaine Bartlett

Associate Professor, Biology

Beck Powers

1st Year Lab Rotation

Maryam Rashidzade

PhD Graduate Student

Ana Caicedo

Professor, Biology

Evolution of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici in tomato plants over the course of domestication.

Shelby Sherman

MS Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Rachel Tavares

PhD Graduate Student

Ana Caicedo

Professor, Biology

Katie Webster

PhD Graduate Student

Michelle DaCosta

Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Fang–Ling Jessica Yeh Alice Cheung

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The signaling of plant growth regulators in Arabidopsis thaliana

Jing Yi

PhD Graduate Student

Alice Cheung

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

FERONIA Regulates Thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Houlin Yu

Alumni

Li–Jun Ma

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology