David Pang
(Jan. 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD (Plant Molec. & Developmental Biology)
Institute of Botany-Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)

Research Interests: Cotton fiber development, and novel gene expression regulation during polyploidization in Cotton and Arabidopsis.

Changqing Zhang
(Apr. 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD (Plant Sciences, Genetics minor)
University of Arizona

Research Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation in polyploids of arabidopsis and cotton.

Danny Ng
(May 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD (Biology) Texas A&M University

Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Arabidopsis polyploids.

Gyoungju (Gina) Nah Park
(May 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD (Plant Sciences) University of Arizona

Research Interests: Mechanisms of non-additive regulation of developmental genes in allopolyploids, molecular mechanisms of seed fertility, comparative genomics in Arabidopsis and its relatives.

Xueying Guan
(July 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD (Genetics) Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology

Research Interests: Cotton fiber development.

Hobby: animation, OST collection, travel

Grace Kim
(Sept. 2004)
Ph. D. Student
(Plant Biology)

Research Interests: Functional genomics of Arabidopsis allopolyploids

Hobby: Travel, photography, and cooking.

Misook Ha
(Jan. 2005)
Ph.D. Student
(CMB)

Research interest: Molecular and evolutionary mechanisms of gene expression regulation, especially by small RNAs and chromatin modifications. Computational systems biology. Statistical inference on gene expression regulation mecahsnisms using microarray data and genomic sequences.

Jie Lu
(Mar. 2008)
Ph.D. Student
(CMB)

Research interest: Interspecies variation of miRNA biogenesis and expression.

Marisa Miller
(May 2009)
Ph.D. Student
(CMB)

Research interest: Genome dosage effects on hybrid vigor, as well as maternal/paternal effects on vigor.

Hobby: cooking, video games, travel/camping, gardening

Eric Bih
(Nov. 2006)
Undergraduate Student

Hobby: swimming, tv, internet.

Mahek Mehta
(May 2007)
Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Cloning and transformation of nonadditively expressed genes in Arabidopsis.

Hobby: Texas Football, Cricket, Traveling, Kayaking, Canadian Rockies & College!!

Erika Lackey
(Aug 2006)
Lab Technician

Research Interest: I employ sequence analysis and molecular genetics experiments to better understand polyploidy in cotton and arabidopsis.

Craig Dupree
(Apr. 2007)
Computer Systems Specialist

Interests: Computational Sciences, High Performance Computing, Distributed Computing, Operating Systems, Networking, Physics, Mathematics.