Lab Alumni

Personnel

Name LongLab Tenure Next/current job
David LeBauer 2012-2018

Director of Data Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona

Claire Benjamin 2013-2020 Director of Communications, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois
Bruce Barnes 2006-2021 Retired
Amanda Nguyen 2019-2022 Digital Marketing and Web Specialist, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois

Postdoctoral Researchers

Phil Davey 1999-2001 Senior Research Officer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
Andrew Leakey 2002-2004 Associate Professor, Plant Biology at University of Illinois
Shawna Naidu 2000- 2005 Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors Program Coordinator at University of Illinois
Dafu Wang 2006-2008 Research Scientist, Biotechnology, at Monsanto Company, Chesterfield MO
Xinguang Zhu 2004-2008 Head, Plant Systems Biology Group, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai
Fernando Miguez 2007-2009 Assistant Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University
Frank Dohleman 2009 External Stakeholder Lead, The Climate Corporation
Dan Wang 2013 International Center for Ecology, Meteorology and Environment, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Venkatraman Srinivasan 2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Wanne Kromdijk 2013-2018 Assistant Professor, Cambridge University
Katarzyna (Kasia) Glowacka 2011-2018 Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska  
Justin McGrath 2011-2020 Research Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS
 
Deepak Jaiswal 2011-2020 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad 
Amanda De Souza 2015-2023 Prototype Characterization Lead, Inari
Ben Haas 2018-2020 Crop Transformation Pipeline Manager, RIPE Project, University of Illinois
Steve Burgess 2018-2021 Assistant Professor, Plant Biology, University of Illinois
Megan Matthews 2020-2021 Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois
Bethany Holland 2019-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University
Ed Lochocki 2019-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois

 

Graduate Students

Colin Osborne Ph.D. 1996 Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Associate Director, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Sheffield, UK
Graham Hymus Ph.D. 1998 Senior Scientist, BioConsortia, Inc., Davis, California
Alistair Rogers Ph.D. 1998 Scientist, Environmental Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Carl Bernacchi Ph.D. 2002 Plant Biology, University of Illinois/USDA-ARS
Elizabeth Ainsworth Ph.D. 2003 Plant Biology, University of Illinois/USDA-ARS
Richard Webster Ph.D. 2004 Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Patrick Morgan Ph.D. 2004 Crop Physiologist Specializing in Field Instrumentation and Measurements, Monsanto Company
Xinguang Zhu Ph.D. 2004 Head, Plant Systems Biology Group, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai
Emily Heaton Ph.D. 2006 Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Ames IA
Charles Chen Ph.D. 2008 Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa California
Victoria Wittig Ph.D. 2008 Project Coordinator, Save the Dunes, Michigan City, Indiana
Frank Doleman Ph.D. 2009 External Stakeholder Lead, The Climate Corporation, San Francisco, California
Amanda de Souza visiting 2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois
Will Hay Ph.D. 2012 Research Plant Physiologist, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), Peoria IL
Ashley (Spence) Kuhn Ph.D. 2012 Senior Scientist – Global Sustainability, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio
Becky (Arundale) Keating Ph.D. 2012 International Field Trials Research Manager at Indigo
Adebosola Oladeinde Ph.D. 2012 Deputy Project Director of Cassava: Adding Value for Africa, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Yu Iwahashi visiting 2014 Visiting Graduate Student, Kyoto University, Japan
Noel Piatak M.Sc. 2015  
Idan Spitz M.Sc. 2015  Chief Cultivation Officer and Director Research and Development, Kind Love, Denver, Colorado
Lynnicia Massenburg M.Sc. 2017  Graduate Student, Pennsylvania State University
Charles Pignon Ph.D. 2017  Visiting Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Liana Acevedo-Siaca Ph.D. 2020 Associate Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Sarah Hutchinson Ph.D. 2021 Field Application Scientist, L7 Informatics 

 

Undergraduate Students

Lindsay Heady 2001-2005
Kane Keller 2007
Danyelle Dehner 2007
Alex Meyers 2007
Jeremy Pillow 2008
Joe Crawford 2006-2008, Graduate Student, Washington State University
Allison Luzader 2007-2008, linkedin
Emily Doherty 2003-2008
Kaley Major 2007-2009
Kelechi Lamberts 2008
Gloria Gonzalez 2007-2008
Tom Straight 2008
Chris Kasia 2008-2009
Caroline Thurn 2008-2009
Rhea Kressman 2007-2009, Assistant Editor, Global Change Biology and GCB Bioenergy
Melissa Kocek 2007-2009
Rachel Vinsel 2009
Adrienne Perkins 2004-2009
Neal Makela 2010
Keith Chan 2008-2010
Tim Cohan 2009-2010
Eric Foster 2008-2010
Ariel Ranieri 2009-2010
Liz Vonderhaar 2010
Anthony Galicia 2008-2010
Ethan Kessler 2009-2011
Ross Polk 2009-2011, Waste Management Sustainability Services, Jolkona, Waterbelly LLC
Neil Thomas 2009-2011
Brian Miller 2010-2011
John Jurevis 2010-2011
Phylicia Robins 2010
Laird Boulden 2010-2011
Ben Lewis 2010-2012
Lecretia Williams 2010-2012
Dane Nelson 2011
Mike Hradek 2011
Mike Ferrari 2011-2012
Rafael Rodriquez 2011-2012
Pat Doherty 2010-2013
Amy Yanow 2010-2013, Community Manager at Coalition: Energy
Hannah Behle 2014
Michael Das 2014
Sylwia Dutka 2014
Kelly Madorsky 2013-2014
Kasey Colombani 2011-2015
Austin Keating 2013-2015
Hannah Behle 2014-2015
Jacob Feldman 2014-2015
Monique Hazemi 2014-2015
Siyuan (Lily) Cheng 2014-2015
Chris Seiboldt 2015
Emily Cheng 2015
Haotian Jiang 2015
Jiarui Xu 2015
Yilin Dong 2015
Richard Field 2015
Sydney Gillespie 2015
Emily Howells 2015
Mariah Johnson 2015 – 2017
Noelle Thompson 2015
Kevin Dinh 2016
Jacob Burrus 2016
Joe Klein 2016
Sydney Gillespie 2016
Alexander Riley 2016
Laura Shihadah 2016-2017
Katie Kucera 2017
Emma Moore 2017
Alexander Nelson 2017
Veronica Passarelli 2017
Isla Causon 2018
Stephanie Cullum 2018
Iulia Floristeanu 2018
Pietro Hughes 2018
Lucy Manukyan 2018
Emma Raven 2018
Robert Collison 2018
Aoefie Sweeney 2018
Naomi Housego 2018
Freya Way 2018