Lab members
Present
Jesse Lasky
Associate Professor of Biology
Director, Penn State Herbarium (PAC)
Diana Gamba
Postdoctoral researcher
Diana is interested in understanding how species adapt along elevational gradients, especially in species with a wide elevational range and occurring across different mountain ranges.
Erica Lawrence-Paul
NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Fellow
Erica is interested in how developmental transitions impact plant physiology and environmental response and how these developmental changes interact with selection and adaptation.
Joel Masanga
Postdoctoral researcher
Shiran Ben-Zeev
BARD Postdoctoral Fellow
Shiran is interested in plant-plant interactions, mechanisms of communication among plant neighbors, and their effects on plant development and productivity.
Yuxing Xu
Postdoctoral researcher
Desa Rae Abrams
Lab manager
Yuxin Luo
PhD Student, Plant Biology
Eleanna Cerda
NSF Graduate Research Fellow, PhD Student, Plant Biology
Eleanna is interested in evolutionary drivers of plant genomic diversity and population structure including factors like geographic isolation, human activities, and climate.
Katherine Blocklove
PhD Student, Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science
Rotem Ben-Zeev
Research technologist
Martina Albuja
MS Student
Jessica Janakiraman
Undergraduate student, Biology
Abigail Lewis
Undergraduate student, Biology
Elizabeth Marchini
Undergraduate student, Biology
Past
Chloee McLaughlin
Former PhD Student. Currently postdoc at Hudson Alpha.
Amanda Penn
Former lab manager. Currently Forest Health Geneticist at PA DCNR.
Margarita Takou
Former Postdoc. Currently postdoc at University of Cologne.
Aayudh Das
Former Postdoc. Currently scientist at Garuda Therapeutics.
Jeremy Sutherland
Former PhD Student, Bioinformatics & Genomics
Currently a postdoc at Penn State.
Victoria DeLeo
Former PhD Student, Plant Biology.
Currently scientist at Bowery Farming.
Kathryn Turner
Currently Assistant Professor at Idaho State University.
Former Eberly Fellow postdoc.
Emily Bellis
Currently scientist at Avalo Inc.
Former NSF Plant Genome postdoc.
Lua Lopez Perez
Currently Assistant Professor at California State University, San Bernardino.
Former postdoctoral researcher
Claire Lorts
Former Research Technician & Lab Manager
Hailey Bowers
Former Research Technician
Asnake Haile
Former visiting PhD student, Addis Ababa University
Rohan Ramaswamy
Undergraduate student, Biology
Molly Biver
Former Undergraduate student, Biology
Robin Mailum
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Vishnu Viswanathan
Former Honors major, Biology
Victoria Pizzi
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Xavier Mack
Former undergraduate student, Agricultural Science
Christina Yim
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Tian Xia
Former undergraduate student, Biochemistry
Carlos Rodriguez Gonzalez
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Victoria Meagher
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Sarah Lucas
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Grace Sepllacy
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Timothy Gilpatrick
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Connor Campana
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Crosley Kudla-Williams
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Paras Patel
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Jon Kizer
Former undergraduate student, Biology
Past lab photos
May 2022
September 2019
May 2018
