CURRENT
Research Scientists
Postdoctoral Scientists
- Varsha Pathare (IGB Fellow)
- Yan Zhu
- John Hodge
- Balasaheb Sonawane
- Joseph Crawford
- Sanbon Gosa
- James Fischer
- Sebastian Varela
Graduate students
Research Technicians
- Jeremy Ruhter
- Scott McCoy
- Hyun Jung
Undergraduate Project Students
- Stephen Barretto
- Jack Mason
- Dylan Allen
- Steven Blanke
- Erica Sotos
- Brandon Banchs
- Samantha Schnur
- Elaine Guel
- Lydia Keller
- Devin Johnson
- Drake Niles-Cox
- Shreyas Rangan
- Akshit Khatri
- Ziad Khan
- Destini Coleman
- Anna Ondrejckova
- Nicolas Hernandez
- Vlad Hintea
- Luke Illes
ALUMNI
OLLI Citizen Scientist
- Jo Pride
Postdoctoral Scientists
- Amandine Germon (Cirad)
- Alistair Leverett (Cambridge)
- Avinash Karn (Syngenta)
- Gorka Erice (ATENS- Agrotecnologias Naturales)
- Tiago Tomaz (Fulbright Scholar; Sun Pharma)
- Scott Woolbright (IGB Postdoc Fellow)
- Tim Wertin (Bayer)
- John Ferguson (Essex)
- Ashish Rajurkar (SALK)
- Charles Pignon (Convoy Inc)
- Eric Sedivy (Soybean Innovation Lab)
- Niteen Kadam
Graduate Students
- Dustin Mayfield-Jones (UIUC Distinguished Fellow)
- Rachel Paul (Syngenta)
- Kevin Xie
- Lorena Rios-Acosta (NSF Graduate Fellow)
- R.J. Cody Markelz (NSF Post-doctoral Fellow; Berkeley)
- Sharon Gray (NSF Post-doctoral Fellow; Deceased)
- Katie Richter
- Darshi Banan (University of Washington)
- Parthiban Prakash (Lee Foundation Fellow; IRRI)
Technicians
- Bradley Dalsing
- Kannan Puthuval
- Jessica Mulcrone (Assistant lab manager, Yang Lab UIUC)
- Ben Thompson (RIPE field and greenhouse technician)
- Luke Freyfogle (Research greenhouse specialist UIUC)
- Setu Chakrabarty (Doon Business School)
Undergraduates Students
- Andrew Chancellor – Evonik
- Brianna Usdrowski - Lincoln Park Zoo
- Chris Rudisill - Technician, Energy Biosciences Institute
- David Marshak - Genzyme Genetics
- Derek Haselhorst - Graduate Student, Punyasena Lab UIUC
- Kate Sullivan - University of Maryland Medical School
- Kevin Wolz - NSF Graduate Student Fellow, Delucia Lab UIUC
- Lorena Rios Acosta - NSF Graduate Student Fellow, this lab!
- Matt Nantie - Graduate Student, Bernacchi lab UIUC
- Mike Suguitan - Teach for America
- Mitch Dickey - President of Illinois Student Senate
- Rachel Paul - Graduate Student, this lab!
- Reid Strellner - Graduate Student, Northwestern
- Ryan Boyd - Graduate Student, Washington State University; Postdoc, Ort Lab UIUC
- Sara Sligar - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvannia
- Stephanie Klein - Graduate Student, Penn State
- Anna Dmitrieva- Illinois Natural History Survey
- Peter Schmuker- Graduate Student, Washington State University
- Jim Berry- Jones Lang LaSalle
- Alan Hsieh- Medical Student, Western University of Health Sciences
- Savanna Pflugmaker
- Sean Tobin
- Tyler Blackwell- SODO Business Improvement Area
- Shahbaz Khan- West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District
- Emma Raven
- Bob Collison- Syngenta
- Caroline Ludden- Graduate Student, Lara Lab UIUC
- Yogin Patel- PureAire Monitoring Systems
- Julian Roman- AbbVie
- Meiwei Chen
- Montana Hernandez
- Nathan Carmichael
- Faizat Ajose
- Iksha Handa- AstraZeneca
- Raegan Wehde
High School Students
- Alex Cahill - Graduate Student, UCLA
- Peter Floess - Crop Science major, UIUC