Plant Biology Graduate Student Alumni

1976-present.

* - Master of Science degree
** - Finished program at University of Stockholm

Graduation year	Name	Lab/advisor	Positions after graduation
2019	Liao, Jui-Yun	van Wijk	Visiting Fellow, NIH/NCI
2019	Lindsay, Penelope	Harrison
2019	Martinez, Camila	Crepet
2018	Coralie Salesse-Smith	Stern	Postdoctoral Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2018	Nick Segerson*	Rose	Medical writer at Q2 Solutions
2018	Eric Fich	Rose
2018	Daniella Allevato	Nixon	University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
2018	Dana Robinson	Roeder	Technology Specialist at Clark + Elbing LLP
2018	Shaoqun Zhou	Jander	Postdoctoral Fellow at Elo Life Systems, Durham, North Carolina.
2017	Pengfei Qiao	Scanlon
2017	Elden Rowland	van Wijk	Research Associate, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
2017	Gwynne Lim	Davis	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Secretary
2017	Thereis Choo	Nixon	Director (Terrestrial), National Biodiversity Centre, Singapore
2017	Lila Luna*	Roeder	Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
2017	Monica Ramirez Carvalho	Niklas	Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2017	Yann-Ru Lou	Jander	Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan Sate University
2017	Samuel Leiboff	Scanlon	Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley / Plant Gene Expression Center
2017	Adrian Powell	Doyle	Postdoctoral Researcher, Boyce Thompson Institute
2016	Robert Harbert	Nixon	-Assistant Professor of Biology and Bioinformatics, Stonehill College -Gerstner Scholar in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History
2016	Rachel Mertz	Rose	Postdoctoral Fellow Univ. of Missouri
2015	Xian Qu	Roeder	Postdoctoral Associate, University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2015	Sam Crowell	McCouch	Agricultural Advisor at U.S. Department of State
2015	Samantha Mainiero*	Pawlowski	N/A
2015	Ryan McQuinn	Giovannoni	Postdoctoral Fellow at The Australian National University
2015	Dezi Elzinga	Jander	Postdoctoral Associate, UC Riverside
2015	Laetitia Martin	Rose	Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
2015	Olofron Plume	Doyle	Botanist, Philadelphia, PA
2014	Tao Sun	Hanson	Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University
2014	Haiyi Wang	Richards	N/A
2014	Margaret Frank	Scanlon	Asst. Professor at Cornell in SIPS
2013	Zhilong Bao	Hua	Professor at Shandong Agricultural University
2013	Holly Summers	Raguso	AAAS Science & Technology Fellow working in biotechnology regulation at USDA-APHIS-BRS.
2013	Nanditha Vimalakumari*	Vatamaniuk	N/A
2013	Tyi McCray	Owens	Director (Interim) Diversity and Belonging at Airbnb
2012	Greg Buda	Rose	Director of Education at The Dead Rabbit & BlackTail
2012	Peter Lundquist	van Wijk	Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
2012	Arnaud Germain	Stern	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University
2012	Jing Zhou	Lee	Scientist at Elo-Life Systems in NC
2012	John Snyder	van Wijk	Postdoctoral Associate, IBCAS Beijing
2012	Elizabeth Takacs	Scanlon	Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
2012	Anne Rea	J. Nasrallah	Lecturer in Biology, The Sage Colleges, Albany Campus
2012	Christopher Bozza	Pawlowski	Founder & CEO at Science Savvy Education LLC
2011	Trevor Yeats	Rose	Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
2011	Mary Futey*	Crepet	Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Natera
2011	Janelle Burke	Luckow	Asst. Professor, Howard University
2011	Sean Hammond	Niklas	Asst. Professor, Department of Earth System Science & Policy, University of North Dakota
2010	Jeremy Coate	Doyle	Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College in the Portland, Oregon area.
2010	James I. Cohen	Davis	Asst. Professor of Botany, Kettering Univ.
2010	Ryan Douglas	Scanlon	Patent Agent at Arnold & Porter, Washinton, DC
2010	Catherine Martel	Giovannoni	Research Scientist at Therapure Biopharma Inc.
2010	Matthew J. Milner	Kochian	BTI & USDA
2010	Nate Pumplin	Harrison	Scientist at Joyn Bio, Sacramento, CA
2010	Cindy Skema	Luckow	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand
2010	Shannon Straub	Doyle	Asst. Professor, Hobart and William Smith
2010	John Woodward	Scanlon	Research Scientist, Pioneer HiBred International
2009	Sarah Davidson Evanega	Turgeon	International Professor of Plant Breeding (adjunct) and Senior Associate Director of International Programs at Cornell University
2009	Jeffrey Gordon	Jahn	Internet start-up (www.agsquared.com)
2009	Guila Stellari	Jahn	Procurement Director for sustainable Sourcing and Renewable Energy, Unilever
2008	Patrick Brown	Kresovitch	Asst. Professor Crop Sciences, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
2008	Stephanie Topp	Hua	Technician in Harrison Lab, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell
2008	Yongqing Li	Hua	Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Berkeley
2008	Nathan Boggs	Nasrallah	Researcher at a Medical Research lab (CA)
2008	Heidi Rutschow	vanWijk	Visiting Assistant Professor at Humboldt State University
2008	Michael Mazourek	Jahn	Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University
2008	Caroline Kellogg	Doyle/Kresovich	Advancement Associate at Cornell Hillel
2008	Sarah Covshoff	Brutnell	Editor at Springer Science+Business Media
2008	Breeanna Urbanowicz	Rose	Early Carreer Research Fellow- Center for Bioenergy Innovation at Oak Ridge Nationa
2008	Yi Wang	Hua	Unknown
2008	Patrick Brown	Kresovitch	Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University
2007	Ling Bai	Brutnell	Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell
2007	Jason Gillman	Hanson	Postdoctoral Fellow USDA-ARS University of Missouri-Columbia
2007	Ashlee McCaskill	Turgeon	Asst. Professor, North Georgia College and State University
2007	Melinda Klein	Kochian	Chief Research Scientist,Citrus Research Board, Visalia, CA
2007	Feinan Wu	Tanksley	Associate Research Scientist at Yale University
2007	Sue Sherman Broyles	Nasrallah	Technician, Dept of Plant Biology, Cornell University
2006	Jimmy Ytterberg	vanWijk	Scientist at Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi) Stockholm, Sweden
2006	Andrea Rudella	vanWijk	HRMS Support Specialist & Service Training Coordinator Italy at Waters Corp.
2006	Lisa Giacomelli	vanWijk	Consultant for Scienza Biotechnologies, Italy
2006	Jackeline Salazar	Nixon	Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican Republic
2005	Elizabeth Hermsen	Crepet	Assistant Professor, Ohio University
2004	Gustavo Azenha	Bates	Executive Director at Columbia University in the City of New York
2004	Mac Alford	Luckow	Professor at University of Southern Mississippi – Hattiesburg
2004	Damon P. Little	Nixon	Assistant Curator at New York Botanical Garden
2004	Amanda Ingram	Doyle	Assistant Professor at Wabash College, Indiana
2003	Ernest Kwok	Hanson	Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont College
2003	Tatyana Livshultz	Luckow	Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, Omaha
2003	Robert Nilsson**	vanWijk	Research Scientist at a Biotechnology company, Sweden
2002	Sangbom Michael Lyi	Hanson	Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS
2002	Gokhan Hacisalihoglu	Kochian	Professor of Plant Biology, Florida A&M University
2002	Antonio Alfonso	Hanson	Regulatory Affairs & Stewardship Lead at DuPont Pioneer, Philippines
2001	Lucia Vazquez	Nixon	Interim Dean & Associate Professor at University of Illinois, Springfield
2001	Serena Heckler	Bates	Lecturer at Durham University
2001	Christopher Hardy	Davis	Professor at Millersville University
2001	Carl Lewis	Doyle	Director Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
2001	Thomas Silva	Davies	Senior Lecturer at Cornell University
2000	Yan Xu	Hanson	Research Scientist, New England Biolabs
2000	Donovan Bailey, C.	Doyle	Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University
2000	Helga Ochoterena-Booth	Nixon	Associate Professor at Herbario Nacional (MEXU) Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico
2000	Marcus McFerren	Rodriguez	Medical Doctor, Dermatology
2000	Mark Simmons	Davis	Professor at Colorado State University
1999	Fabian Michelangeli	Rodriguez	Assistant Curator at New York Botanical Garden
1999	Eve Emshwiller	Doyle	Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin
1998	Diane E. Sklensky	Davies	Assistant Professor at Lane College
1998	Tao Yang	Davies	Senior Researcher at Du Pont, Princeton NJ.
1998	Lawrence Kelly	Luckow	Assistant Curator and Director of Graduate Studies, New York Botanical Garden
1998	John Berry	Rodriguez	Associate Professor at Florida International University
Graduation year	Name	Lab/Advisor	Positions after graduation
1997	Hazel Cropper*	Nixon	New York Botanical Garden
1996	Frances Harrington	Korf	USDA Montana
1996	Enrique Estrada	Bates	CONSULTOR INDEPENDIENTE EN ESTRATEGIAS TIC
1995	Catharine Conley	Hanson	Astrobiologist at NASA Adjunct Faculty, New Mexico Tech.
1995	Elizabeth Dickson	Doyle	Environmental Services Consultant and Contractor, Calgary, Canada Area
1994	Natalie McGucken	Davies	Associate Professor at Hiram College, OH.
1993	Paul Manos	Nixon	Associate Professor at Duke University
1993	Anne Bruneau	Doyle	Professor at University of Montreal
1992	Francesca Grifo	Young	Senior Scientist and Director of Scientific Integrity Program at Union of Concerned Scientists
1992	John Freudenstein	Doyle	Professor at Ohio State University
1991	Marie Connett	Hanson	Senior Intellectual Property Consultant, CAMBIA
1991	Carol C. Mapes	Davies	Professor at Kutztown University, PA
1991	Friedreich Behringer	Davies	Research Scientist at Veritech, Centerbrook CT.
1991	Daniel Potter	Doyle	Professor at University of California, Davis
1990	Zhu Yu-Xian	Davies	Director, Chinese National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
1989	Otto Folkerts	Hanson	Associate Director of Technology Development, VPI Blacksburg
1988	James Weifu Lee*	Davies	Senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
1986	Douglas A. Hamilton	Davies	Professor of Biology at Hartwick College, NY.
1984	Mary A. Smith	Davies	Associate Professor of Biology at North Carolina A&T State University.
1983	Evelyne O. Dougherty	Davies	Senior Researcher at Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA.
1981	Thomas J. Gianfagna	Davies	Professor at Rutgers University, NJ.
1978	William M. Proebsting	Davies	Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University.
1976	Alan M. Kinnersley	Davies	Research Director (in his own company), Auxein Inc., East Lansing, MI. retired
1976	David J. Parrish	Davies	Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech University.
1976	John I. Stiles	Davies	Head of Research at Hawaii Coffee Growing Corporation