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

1st Year Lab Rotation

Nasima Akhter Sibongile Mafu

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Ahmed Gameel Meselhy Ali

PhD Graduate Student

Om Parkash Dhankher

Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Ahmet Bakirbas

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology Department

Joni Rey Campilan Li–Jun Ma

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Archita Chatterjee

1st Year Lab Rotation

Jedaidah Yombwe Chilufya

PhD Graduate Student

Dong Wang

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular interactions between symbiotic legumes and rhizobia bacteria

Amber De Neve

PhD Graduate Student

Madelaine Bartlett

Associate Professor, Biology

Stavroula Fili

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology Department

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

Sibongile Mafu

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Miriam Hernandez Romero

PhD Graduate Student

Dong Wang

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Leannah Hicks

PhD Graduate Student

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology Department

Bahman Khahaninamin

PhD Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Genomics and protein-DNA interactions

Aizah Khurram

1st Year Lab Rotation

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

Ian McCahill

PhD Graduate Student

Sam Hazen

Gilgut Professor of Plant Biology

Transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall biosynthesis in grasses

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

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

Jing Yi

PhD Graduate Student

Alice Cheung

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Houlin Yu

PhD Graduate Student

Li–Jun Ma

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology