Alumni

Dr. SAMANTHA KLASFELD

Previous Position: PhD Student

Research: Developing pipeline to improve signal enrichment in ChIP-seq in organisms outside of ENCODE

GABRIELA BLANDINO

Previous Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Research: Function and additional targets of TFL1

YANG ZHU

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Former Research: Identification of upstream regulators of LEAFY
Current Position: Principal Investigator at Zhejiang University

DR. MIN WANG

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Gene silencing by Polycomb in response to stress

RUN JIN

Previous Position: PhD Student
Former Research: Chromatin remodeling and pioneer transcription factors
Current Position: R&D Manager in Molecular and Genomic Pathology Lab in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

JIANQIANG SHEN

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Understanding the role of Polycomb in various plant species
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Lemaux Lab in University of California, Berkeley

RENEE HASTINGS

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Understanding how the biophysical properties of disordered proteins coordinate stress responses
Current Position: Biophysics Graduate Student at Stanford University

UN-SA LEE

Previous Position: PhD Candidate
Former Research: The epigenetic regulation of inflorescence and flower development

ADAM KONKOL

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: characterizing disordered proteins

Cece Chen

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Learning about gene regulatory networks and plant immunity

JUN XIAO

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Identification of Polycomb Response Elements in Arabidopsis
Current Position: Principle Investigator at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences

YUHEE CHUNG

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Auxin regulation of primordium initiation

CHEOL WOONG JEONG

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Identification of upstream regulators of LEAFY
Today: research fellow at LG Economic Research Institute

NOBUTOSHI YAMAGUCHI

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research:Regulatory interactions that lead to the formation of the first flower in Arabidopsis | Read more
Today: assistant professor at NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SOON-KI HAN

Previous Position: PhD Candidate
Former Research: The role of chromatin remodeling in stress and hormone responses. | Read more
Today: Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Japan

MIIN-FENG WU

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research:Former Research: the intersection between hormonal responses, plant development and chromatin remodeling. | Read more
Today: research scientist at Monsanto

SUJUAN CUI

Previous Position: Visiting Scholar
Former Research:the role of chromatin remodeling in plant development and growth.

ALFONSO MOURIZ VILLAR

Previous Position: Visiting Graduate Student
Former Research: Role of histone modifications and histone variants in reproductive development in Arabidopsis.

AYAKO YAMAGUCHI

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Induction of LEAFY by the mir156/SBP age-sensing pathway | Read more

YI SANG

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Role of SWI/SNF ATPases in development | Read more

CARA WINTER

Previous Position: PhD Candidate
Former Research: Application of genome-wide appraches to identify direct LFY targets at two developmental stages | Read more

JENNIFER PASTORE

Previous Position: PhD Candidate
Former Research: Regulation of flower primordium formation downstream of LEAFY | Read more

MAXWELL REBACK

Previous Position: Postbaccalaureate Scholar (Website)
Former Research: Role of LEAFY in Biotic stimulus response. gbrowse to display LEAFY genomewide binding. | Read more

ANDREA LIMPUANGTHIP

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Role of LMI2 MYB transcription factor downstream of LEAFY. | Read more

LAUREN MALASPINA

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Role of direct LEAFY targets in the switch to flower formation. | Read more

LOUIS SADDIC

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Regulatory network downstream of LEAFY in the switch to flower formation | Read more

STAVER BEZHANI

Previous Position:Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Transcriptional targets of SWI/SNF ATPases SPLAYED and BRAHMA in Arabidopsis | Read more

CHANG-SEOB KWON

Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Research: Role SWI/SNF ATPase SPLAYED in stem cell maintenance. Role of SWI/SNF ATPase BRAHMA in organ separation. | Read more

YANHUI SU

Previous Position: Technician
Former Research: Posttranslational Regulation of SWI/SNF ATPase SPLAYED activity | Read more

DILUSHA WILIAM

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Former Research: Genomewide identification of direct LFY targets | Read more

MARIYA KOSTIV

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher

ALEXANDER GONZALEZ

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher

JANA KRIEN

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher

INDEARA COGDELL

Previous Position: Undergraduate Researcher