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 |
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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 | |
Cindy Chan | 2018-2024 | Managing Director, Molecue Maker Lab Institute | |
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 |