People

Team

Julia Bailey-Serres

Distinguished Professor of Genetics

UC John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair

Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Email: serres@ucr.edu

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Garo Akmakjian

NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Dartmouth College

Interests: Mycorrhizal interactions, drought

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Jeoffrey George

OASIS Postdoctoral Fellow

Interests: Translational regulation, plant adaptation

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Syed Adeel Zafar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: Plant-biotic interactions; Abiotic stresses; Developmental plasticity

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Sonja Winte

GAANN Fellow

Graduate Student, Plant Biology

B.S. Genetics, English, UC Davis

Interests: Ethylene Response Factors

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Alex Borowsky

NIFA Predoctoral Fellow

Graduate Student, Plant Biology

BA, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vanderbilt University

Interests: Gene Regulation, Plant Metabolism, Computational Biology

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Claudia Sepulveda

Graduate Student, Plant Biology

B.S. Microbiology, UC Riverside

Interests: Plant-biotic interactions, Phytohormones, Gene Regulation

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Angel Morris

Graduate Student, Plant Biology

M.S. KAUST, Saudi Arabia

B.S. Brigham Young University

Interests: abiotic stress; root architecture

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Undergraduates

Ethan Nguyen

Matthew Chow

Abby Sond

Esmeralda Gutierrez 

Lab Mascot

Axel Busch-Castro

Alumni

Sjors van der Horst

As of 5/1/24

Independent Researcher at Wageningen University

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Utrecht University

Interests: RNA biology, submergence tolerance

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Graduate Students

Sanjay Jayachandran , Ph.D. TransMembrane BioSciences, Pasadena, CA. Instructor/Faculty, Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles City College.

Mary Pino, MS, Allergan Inc., Irvine CA, homemaker

Sasipryia Vangala, MS

Kathleen Szick-Miranda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, California State University, Bakersfield.

Alan J. Williams, Ph.D., SomaLogic (previously Affymetrix, Ion Torrent)

Airica Baxter-Burrell, Ph.D

Shaharm Ahmadian, MS

Riki Kawaguchi, PhD., Research Scientist, UC Los Angeles, CA

Ira (Ing-Feng) Chang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, National University of Taiwan

Ruth Chang, Ph.D, InVitrogen, San Diego, CA

Cristina Branco Price, Ph.D, Faculty Belfast University, Ireland

Charles Jang, Biology Faculty, Santa Ana College

Piyada Juntawong,  PhD, Assistant Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Kayla Kaiser, Ph.D., Visiting Lecture, W.M. Keck Science Center, Claremont Colleges, Lecturer, Cal State University Northridge.

Seung Cho Lee, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Reed Sorenson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Utah

Gregory Barding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, California Polytechnical Univeristy, Pomona, CA

Andrew J. Defries, Ph.D.

Elaine Yeung, M.S., PhD Utrecht University

Erin Brinton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Occidental College, CA

Rejbana Alam, Ph.D., Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug Fellow, Research scientist in industry

Travis Lee, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Salk Institute

Lauren Dedow, PhD., Staff Research Scientist, UCLA

Thanin (George) Chantarachot, PhD. UC Riverside, Postdoctoral Researcher 

Alek Kettenburg, M.S., Research Associate, Benson Hill, St. Louis, MO

Thomas Roulé, PhD (Visiting student, Martin Crespi Lab)

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sheila Fennoy, Adjunct Instructor, Los Angeles Mission College

Cecelia Webster, Retired professor from UC Riverside

Rachel Averill, Senior Research Assessor, Royal Society of New Zealand

Siva Manjunath, Bayer Crop Sciences, Chesterfield, MO

Kathleen Szick (Szick-Miranda), Associate Professor, California State University, Bakersfield

Joanna Werner Fraczek, Professor, Moreno Valley College

Maria Eugenia Zanetti, Professor, Instituto de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Airica Baxter-Burrell, homemaker

Takeshi Fukao, Associate Professor, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan

Angelika Mustroph, Professor, Bayreuth University, Germany

Teruko Oosumi, Research Associate, JR Simplot Plant Sciences, Idaho; Research Scientist, University of Florida 

Julian Pena Castro, Professor, University of Papeloapen, Mexico

 Piyada Juntawong, Assistant Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Matt Collin, Field Application Specialist, Qiagen

Reed Sorenson,  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Utah

Jérémie Bazin, Researcher, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay IPS2, CNRS, INRA

Anna Locke, Research Scientist, USDA and Adjunct Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Germain Pauluzzi, Farmer and  beekeeper

Mauricio Reynoso, Junior Faculty, Instituto de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 

Miguel Lopez, Research Scientist, Spain

Thanin Chantarchot, Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Elaine Yeung, Sciences Librarian, Chapman University

Maureen Hummel, Teaching Faculty, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands 

 Matthew Prior, Assistant Professor, Clinton College, South Carolina

Undergraduate and High School Students (*with publications)

1990-1999 with publications: 

Jonathan Tom*, Minh  Nguyen*, Gita Surti*, Lisa Chang*, Chien-Hsing Lee*, Patrick van Winkel*, Thoa Nong*, Arvin Tam* Peter Nghiem*, Kelvin  Ma*. 

Since 2007: 

Wan Chieh Chen, Charles Liu, Diana Seraficia, Nini Nguyen, Tristan Harris*, Daniel Swank, Megan Staake (MD), Mohini Patel*, Arbi Yaghoubi-Mashi*,  Ali Zanial (Cal State Bakersfield), Julie Escalera, Puneet Gill, Elaine Young (MS and PhD in plant biology)**, Hera Syed, Antonio Contreras, Victor Longoria, Vishwa Shah, Jonathan Dang, Julian Kougl, Emma Britain, Paulina Werner (Poland), Jennifer Oki, James Urbiztondo, Daniel Chen, Aubrie de la Cruz, Michael Fischer, Quinton Brail (Cleveland State, UC Berkeley), Justin Carale, Jenniffer Flores (UTx), Benjamin Rammeslberg (Orange Lutheran HS, BS and MS in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside), Kevin Oda, Arthur Tissot-Mayet  (France), Kelly Tran, Corina Moreno, Bryan Kim,  Marcus Junus, Joel Velasco (Idaho  State, PhD program Washington State U)**, Marie Guillemin (France), Hector Lopez, William Seranjaya  (Orange Lutheran  HS, B.S. and MS Biochemistry, UCLA ), Anastasia Abello, Monica Natividad, Lorenzo Santamaria, Dana Pinon, Ralston Mataki (MS), James Koo, Alexander Eskandarian, Sabrina Bimson (Ursinus College), Misa Yamamoto (UCSB, BS Env. Sci),  Sean Cabanlit**, Christine Duvenjian (UCR MD program)*, Alek Kettenburg*, Felicia Ortiz, Susan Su, (MLK HS, MIT undergrad) David Yu,  Minh Le,  Naomi Benson (MLK HS), Isabelle Do  (MLK HS, UC Berkeley), Joshua Cagle, Oscar Gomez (USC MD program), Jobelle Castro, Esperanza Garcia (Vassar College), Carlee Krahn, Annalise Gushue (UCD; UC Riverside PhD proram), Alexandra Vacaru (Loma Linda MD Program),  Jasmine Gwizdala (UCR MD, Haider Early Assurance Program), Carolina Buhler (UCLA), Jerry Cheung, Jackie Torres, Gabriel Chavez, Eric Luera (Cal Baptist), Edward Duong (UCR)