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
Syed Adeel Zafar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interests: Plant-biotic interactions; Abiotic stresses; Developmental plasticity
Sonja Winte
GAANN Fellow
Graduate Student, Plant Biology
B.S. Genetics, English, UC Davis
Interests: Ethylene Response Factors
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
UCR Email
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)