The Leakey Lab is a collaborative team from across the globe!

CURRENT

Research Scientists

• Daniel Tejeda Lunn
• Jennifer Quebedeaux

Postdoctoral Scientists

• Varsha Pathare (IGB Fellow)
• Yan Zhu
• John Hodge
• Balasaheb Sonawane
• Joseph Crawford
• Sanbon Gosa
• James Fischer
• Sebastian Varela

Graduate students

• Grace Tan
• Sam Walker
• Destini Coleman
• Kinjalk Parth

Research Technicians

• Jeremy Ruhter
• Scott McCoy
• Hyun Jung

Undergraduate Project Students

Dylan Allen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benji Hubbell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Ondrejckova

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erica Sotos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicolas Hernandez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vlad Hintea

 

Fadi Shaaya

 

Maura McInerney

Cassandra Liu

Brandon Banchs

Shreyas Rangan

Dominyq Gritten

Jack Mason

Gerardo Amaro

 

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; agrichem)
• Scott Woolbright (IGB Postdoc Fellow)
• Tim Wertin (Bayer)
• John Ferguson (Essex)
• Ashish Rajurkar (SALK)
• Charles Pignon (Pinterest)
• Eric Sedivy (Soybean Innovation Lab)
• Niteen Kadam

Graduate Students

• Dustin Mayfield-Jones (UIUC Distinguished Fellow; UofI Research Park)
• 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 (IQVIA)
• 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 UIUC)
• 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, Canopy Farm Management
• 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; Postdoc, Iowa State University
• Anna Dmitrieva- Graduate Student, Berkeley
• 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
• Lydia Keller
• Devin Johnson
• Drake Niles-Cox
• Akshit Khatri
• Ziad Khan
• Luke Illes
• Samantha Schnur
• Steven Blanke
• Elaine Guel
• Kayla Branch
• Chloe Zant
• Nicole Miedzinski
• Keith Gardner
• Katie Garwacki
• Mikayla Blanke
• Stephen Barretto

 High School Students

• Alex Cahill - Graduate Student, UCLA
• Peter Floess - Crop Science major, UIUC 
• Kruthi Ramanath