Lab members
Present
Jesse Lasky
PI, Associate Professor of Biology
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
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.
Margarita Takou
Postdoctoral researcher
Margarita is interested in understanding the impact of selection, gene architecture and environment on gene expression evolution. She uses computational and classic population and quantitative genetic approaches to study gene expression and gene networks in Arabidopsis.
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.
Amanda Penn
Research technologist & lab manager
Hailey Bowers
Research technologist
Chloee McLaughlin
PhD Student, Plant Biology
Chloee is interested in how plant diversity arises, how it is maintained, and if diversity can inform conservation efforts. She currently works on crop landraces.
Yuxin Luo
PhD Student, Plant Biology
Eleanna Cerda
NSF Graduate Research Fellow, PhD Student, Plant Biology
Katherine Blocklove
PhD Student, Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science
Robin Mailum
Laboratory assistant
Rotem Ben-Zeev
Laboratory assistant
Rohan Ramaswamy
Undergraduate student, Biology
Past
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
Asnake Haile
Former visiting PhD student, Addis Ababa University
Vishnu Viswanathan
Former undergraduate student, 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
September 2019
May 2018
