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Andrew Leakey's Laboratory

People

CURRENT

Research Scientists

Postdoctoral Scientists

Graduate students

Research Technicians

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