Current Members
Sunhyun Chang
PhD Student in Plant Biology
Specificity in SMXL protein regulation and output
Andrew Duong
Undergraduate in Biology
KAI2 ligand biosynthesis and karrikin metabolism
Michael Guzmán
PhD Student in Plant Biology
KAI2 ligand biosynthesis and karrikin metabolism
Annalise Kane
PhD Student in Plant Biology
Engineering strigolactone biosynthesis in crops
Dave Nelson
Principal Investigator
Writing and meetings
Satoshi Ogawa
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
JSPS Fellow
Biosynthesis of KAI2 ligand
Michell Santiago
Undergraduate in Biology
Strigolactone biosynthesis
Alex White
PhD Student in Plant Biology
Signaling specificity of karrikin and strigolactone receptors
Former Postdocs, Graduate Students, Technicians
Qingtian Li
Group Leader
Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, China
Postdoctoral researcher
(2017-2023)
Aashima Khosla
Funding and Awards Specialist
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
Postdoctoral researcher
(2016-2020)
Claudia Sepulveda
Incoming PhD student
University of California, Riverside
Research technician
(2016-2020)
Jiameng Zheng
Senior Scientist
Wuxi Biologics, China
Postdoctoral researcher
(2016-2018)
Nick Morffy
Postdoctoral researcher
Strader Lab, Duke University
PhD student in Genetics
(2014-2018)
Caitlin Conn
Assistant Professor
Berry College
PhD student in Genetics
(2013-2017)
John Stanga
Assistant Professor
Mercer University
Postdoctoral researcher
(2012-2015)
Lionel Faure
Assistant Clinical Professor
Texas Woman’s University
Postdoctoral researcher
(2014-2015)
Former Undergraduates
Ali Alkhuder (2023)
Lauren Cao (2022–2023)
Ethan Hsiao (2022–2023)
Xitlalli Zavala (2021–2023)
Michael Vitarella (2023)
Vivian Onwudiwe (2023)
Jasmine Hakimian (2021–2022)
Mira Samarneh (2021–2022)
Loi Le (2020)
Austin Newberg (2020)
Veronica Botros (2019–2020)
Jasnoor Malhotra (2019–2020)
Stephanie Martinez (2018–2020)
Dionne Martin (2018–2020)
Nwojo Abba (2018)
Elise Landsbergen (2018)
Robert Andalon (2018)
Jose Mendez (2017-2020)
Mei Cai (2017–2020)
Richmond Fandino (2017)
Asiah Lane (2016)
Jie Xu (2016)
Suraj Kapoor (2014–2016)
Laura Voges (2015–2016)
Miya Oliver (2015)
Caleb Ingram (2015)
Kiara Reid (2014)
Airie Sahakul (2014)
Piyush Joshi (2013–2014)
Luben Raytchev (2013–2014)
Ish Soundappan (2012–2014)
Nikhil Kamath (2012–2014)
Chris Benson (2012–2013)
Amena Abbas (2012–2013)
Drexel Neumann (2011–2013)
Rakia Nasir (2011)
Dwight Stewart (2011)