Graduate Students: Plant Biology
Graduate students in the Field of Plant Biology
Bryce Askey
- bca47 [at] cornell.edu
Joseph Cammarata
- jtc279 [at] cornell.edu
Understanding the genetic underpinnings of how land plant apical meristems evolved to produce upright, leafy shoots.
Lance "Teo" Courtney
- lec224 [at] cornell.edu
Daniel Evanich
- dje94 [at] cornell.edu
Ayress Grinage
- adg223 [at] cornell.edu
Clarice Guan
- cjg282 [at] cornell.edu
Research interest: Understanding the evolution and development of phyllotaxis in the spiral gingers (Costaceae) and the Zingiberales
Kate Harline
- kh694 [at] cornell.edu
Michelle Heeney
- mmh265 [at] cornell.edu
Riley Henderson
- rnh53 [at] cornell.edu
Adriana Hernandez
- aih32 [at] cornell.edu
Shuyao Kong
- sk3254 [at] cornell.edu
Understanding the molecular mechanism of Arabidopsis sepal initiation using computational and experimental approaches.
Arielle Johnson
- arj66 [at] cornell.edu
Chemical ecology and molecular biology of milkweed defenses against monarch caterpillar feeding.
Patricia Leyva
- pl599 [at] cornell.edu
Plant mineral nutrition and plant adaptation to abiotic stresses.
Nathan Scinto-Madonich
- njm76 [at] cornell.edu
Plant mineral nutrition and regulation of membrane transport.
Elizabeth Mahood
- ehm79 [at] cornell.edu
Developing computational tools to characterize plant specialized metabolism.
Kyle Martin
- krm243 [at] cornell.edu
Signal evolution, mimicry, and deceptive pollination in diverse plant lineages.
Jesus Martinez-Gomez
- jm2722 [at] cornell.edu
Macroevolutionary implications of plant inflorescence architecture development, with evo-devo and model-based approaches.
Patrick Mendoza
- pnm34 [at] cornell.edu
Understanding copper transport and the related impact to fertility in Brachypodium distachyon as a model for the agricultural relative wheat.
Heather Phillips
- hrp33 [at] cornell.edu
Macroevolutionary patterns of floral fusion and genetic regulatory networks driving fusion within the Zingiberales.
Caylyn Railey
- cer246 [at] cornell.edu
Claire Ravenburg
- cmr297 [at] cornell.edu
Yanã Campos Rizzieri
- ycr3 [at] cornell.edu
Tanner Robison
- tar226 [at] cornell.edu
Byron Rusnak
- bzr5 [at] cornell.edu
James Satterlee
- jws429 [at] cornell.edu
Understanding the contributions of cell lineage and gene expression to maize plant architecture and development using single-cell genomics.
Honghe Sun
- hs738 [at] cornell.edu
Genome evolution and domestication in cucurbit crops.
Nicole Szeluga
- nms244 [at] cornell.edu
Increasing heterosis in soybean by controlling genetic expression of phenotypes attractive to pollinators.
Hannah Thomas
- hrt38 [at] cornell.edu
Genomic, genetic, and cellular processes that determine graft compatibility in the Solanaceae.
Ryan Thummel
- rt423 [at] cornell.edu
Evaluating the Paleozoic fossil record of bryophytes to better understand their early ecology and evolutionary history.
Annelise Vieira
- av365 [at] cornell.edu
Ziqing Wei
- zw498 [at] cornell.edu
David Wickell
- daw277 [at] cornell.edu
Using Isoetes as a window into the effects of polyploidy and the evolution of vascular plants.
Brandon Williams
- bnw33 [at] cornell.edu
Better understanding the use of synthetic biology in the context of long distance signaling and employing a 3-step hijack technique to generate nitrogen and phosphorus biotic sensor plants.
Gordon Younkin
- gcy7 [at] cornell.edu
Function and evolution of specialized metabolic diversity in the wallflower genus Erysimum