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Past Lab-Members Scrapbook

     
 
Maura Zimmermann
Ph.D. student, graduated 2022; worked on root thermomorphogenesis; now postdoc with Ardienne Roeder
  
 
Kazune Matsoka
Undergrad and research technician; worked on protoplast regeneration in BY2 cells
 

Laura Carlucci
Undergrad, did high resolution SEM on plant cell wall. Received Ph.D. in Biophysics from Univ. of Washington Seattle in 2021.
 
Melissa Elmali
Undergrad. Worked on root growth and shoot excision.
 

Priya Bhakhari
Worked on auxin movement in relation to growth.
 
Ellen Zelinsky
Technician. Worked on root growth and generally ran things. Currently getting a Ph.D. at Penn State
  

Eri Kamon
Postdoc, Studied cellulose synthesis and growth anisotropy in BY2 cells. Now a postdoc at University of Tokyo.
 
Dexian Luo
Postdoc. Worked on cellulose synthesis and growth anisotropy. Currently postdocking at Texas A&M.
  

Derui Liu
Postdoc, Studied cellulose synthesis in collaboration with Lori Goldner (UMass Physics). Now a postdoc at Texas A&M.
 
Xiaoli Yang
Ph. D. Student. Characterized root growth kinematically as a function of temperature. Supervised in China by Prof. Guohua Mi at NongDa. Now enjoying Sichuan spice.
  

Wenfei Wang
Postdoc, brachy mutants. Now running a mass speck unit in Fuzhou, China
 
Heidi Rutschow
Postdoc. Worked on permeability of plasmodesmata in the root and auxin transport, in collaboration with Eric Kramer. Now lecturing at Humbolt State in California.
  

Karen Sanguinet
Postdoc, brachy pioneer. Now faculty at Washington State Pullman
 
Wenjuan Fang
Postdoc. Worked magic on cell culture and protoplasts. Now experiencing real winters in Fargo North Dakota
  

Kevin Hines
Undergraduate - worked with Karen Sanguinet on cellulose synthesis
 
Michael Urbanowski
Undergraduate turned Masters Student - worked on pH of the BY-2 Cytoplasm. Obtained his PhD at the Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD; now a Postdoc at UMass Medical School
  

Alex Mojcher
Undergraduate - worked with Karen Osmont on the brachypodium project
 
Katie Sageman
Undergraduate - worked with Heidi Rutschow on plasmodesmata permeability and auxin transport in arabidopsis. Got a PhD at Leeds UK and now a postdoc at UNC.
  
Takahiro Hamada
Post-Doc- Now faculty at Okayama Rikadaigaku, working on microtubules and RNA transport.
 
Alex Cobb
Postdoc - Worked on twisting growth in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. Alex is now working in Singapore as a post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Environmental Sensing and Monitoring, a creation of the Singapore -MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
  

Alex Bannigan
Postdoc - Worked on mitosis in mutant rsw7 and microtubule mutant rsw6. Now Director of a program to advance women in science at University of Sydney, Australia.
 
Shuang Wu
Ph.D student - Worked on mutant rsw4. Now faculty at Fuzhou University, China.
 
Waheeda Sulaman:
Computer whizz - now in Houston, Texas. Worked on Rootflow software at UMass
 

Gang Dong
Postdoc - Worked on Rootflow software.

  

Abidur Rahman
Postdoc - worked on auxin response pathways and cloning the stp1 gene. Now Faculty at Cryobiofrontier Research Center, Iwate University, Ueda, Japan.
 

Jan Judy-March:
The fastest draw in the Midwest

  

Gerrit Beemster (with daughter)
Originally from The Netherlands.
Worked on Kinematics.
Now faculty at the University of Antwerp
 

Corine van der Weele
Ph.D student, originally from Zeeland (the old one), now postdocking at University of Maryland.
Worked on stress of the water kind.

  

Mayandi Sivaguru, "Shiv"
Postdoc, originally from Madurai, India; worked on Aluminium.
Now running a light microscopy core facility at UIUC.
 

Guo-Wei Tian
Postdoc, originally from Harbin, China; worked on cortical microtubules in vitro.
Now postdocking at Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

  

Francoise Marga
Post-doc, originally from Lille, France
Worked on cell wall ultrastructure.
Now Science Officer at Modern Meadow
 

Rashida Wilson
MU undergrad, from Cape Girardeau,
studied swollen roots

  

Cynde Harger
MU Undergrad and serious Rugby fan;
did high resolution growth analysis
 
Deepa Srikanta
MU undergrad and DNA extractor
  
Geetha Sivaguru
Postdoc, originally from India, worked on water stress
   

TB finding a new funding source

  
 
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