Professor, Plant Biology Section, SIPS
Office: 607-255-8049
Current Lab Members:
- Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Ju-Chen Chia Dr. Yana Kavulych
- Graduate Students
Olenka Zavodna Hanna Shatokhina Xing Liu
Luna Rosa Natoli (with Dr. Martinez)
- Fulbright Scholar
Alumni
- Postdocs
Dr. Maryam Rahmati Ishka (mri23@cornell.edu), currently a postdoc at BTI in Dr. Magdalena Julkowska’s lab
Dr. Huajin Sheng, currently a postdoc at University of Saskatoon, Global Institute for Food Security, Canada (huajin.sheng@gifs.ca)
Dr. Sharma, Anuj, currently Staff Scientist at Princeton University (aksharma@princeton.edu)
Dr. Jung, Hail (hj255@korea.kr)
Dr. Selote, Devarshi, currently a postdoc at North Carolina State University (dselote@gmail.com)(dselote@ncsu.edu)
Dr. Yakubov, Bakhtiyor
Dr. Thanwalee Sooksa-Nguan (JiJY), Researcher, University of Minnesota tsooksan@umn.edu
Dr. Kozlovskyy, Volodymyr – was a postdoc in my lab 2005-2006, continued his academic career at the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, was killed on June 19th, 2023 in a battleground in Ukraine defending his country against russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion.
- Graduate Students
Jiang, Yulin, Ph.D., June 2021
Pat Mendoza, M.S. Summer 2021
Huajin Sheng, Ph.D. Summer 2019 (Visiting Ph.D. student, 2015-2018, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China)
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Saskatoon, Global Institute for Food Security, Canada (huajin.sheng@gifs.ca)
Jiapei Yan, Ph.D. in 2016
Currently an Assistant Professor in Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China (Email: jiapeiyan@mail.hzau.edu.cn)
Sheena Gayomba, Ph.D. Spring 2014
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Wake Forest University (Email: gayombsr@wfu.edu)
Sungjin Kim, Ph.D. Spring 2014
Currently an Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University, South Korea (Email: sungjin.kim@cnu.ac.kr)
Nanditha Krishnan Vimalakumari, M.S. in 2014
Zhiyang Zhai, Ph.D. Spring 2011
Currently Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Email: zzhai@bnl.gov)
- Undergraduate Research Students
Yuxing Niu, B.S. in Plant Sciences, May 2023, currently a graduate student at Penn State University.
Erica Kirchhof, B.S. in Plant Sciences, May 2022, currently a graduate student at UW-Madison Graduate School, working in Plant Resilience lab under Dr. Al. Kovaleski
Yihe Zhang, B.S. in Plant Sciences, May 2020, currently a graduate student in Basic Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program at the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Iryna Dovirak, B.S. in Biology and Society, May 2020; currently M.D. Candidate Class of 2025
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo
Marta Faulkner, B.S. in Physics, May 2020
Ethan Pan, B.S. Biology, Chemistry, May 2019, admitted to Zucker/Hofstra School of Medicine at Hofstra University
Chen, Andy G., B.S. in Biology, Honors Program, May, 2009
Schwartz, Marc S., B.S. in Biology, May, 2009
Meissner, Judy, B.S. in Plant Sciences, May 2008
Mei-Tane Chu, Christine, B.S. in Biology, May 2008
- Ithaca High School Students
Eli Simons, 2021 -2022: TCT (Tompkins, Seneca, Tioga) Boces New Visions Program, currently and undergraduate student, Stony Brook University, NY, biology major, class of 2026
- Research Interns
Alexandra Carabetta, NSF-REU intern, 2024
Brock Salvatore, NSF-REU intern, 2023
Marge Poma, NSF-REU intern, 2022
Maya Cotran, NSF-REU intern, 2021
Iryna Yezerska, summer intern, 2023