Team

Graduate Students

Earl Givens

Angel Morris

Alex Borowsky, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford

Sonja Winte, MS

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)

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

Andrew J. Defries, Ph.D. (co supervisor)

Elaine Yeung, M.S., PhD Utrecht University

Gregory Barding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, California Polytechnical Univeristy, Pomona, CA  (co supervisor)

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

Erin Brinton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Occidental College, CA; High School Teacher. Co-developer of Plant Discovery Day at UC Riverside.

Rejbana Alam, Ph.D., Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug Fellow, Data Scientist

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

Lauren Dedow, PhD., Staff Research Scientist, UCLA

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

Charles Jang, Biology Faculty, Santa Ana College

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

Shaharm Ahmadian, MS

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

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

Airica Baxter-Burrell, Ph.D

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

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

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

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

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

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sjors van der Horst, Independent Researcher, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Elaine Yeung, Sciences Librarian, Chapman University

 Matthew Prior, Assistant Professor, Clinton College, South Carolina

Miguel Lopez, Research Scientist, Spain

Thanin Chantarchot, Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

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

Germain Pauluzzi, Farmer and  beekeeper

Matt Collin, Field Application Specialist, Qiagen

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

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

Reed Sorenson,  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Utah

Piyada Juntawong, Assistant Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Julian Pena Castro, Professor, University of Papeloapen, Mexico

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

Angelika Mustroph, Professor, Bayreuth University, Germany

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

Joanna Werner Fraczek, Professor, Moreno Valley College

Takeshi Fukao, Associate Professor, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan

Siva Manjunath, Bayer Crop Sciences, Chesterfield, MO

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

Cecelia Webster, Retired professor from UC Riverside

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

Sheila Fennoy, Adjunct Instructor, Los Angeles Mission College

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: 

Ming 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),Wan Chieh Chen, Charles Liu, Diana Seraficia, Matthew Chow, Ethan Nguyen, Abby Sond (UCR MS Program), Ashlynn Brann (2026 REU student)