Lindy Allsman, Lab Manager, Lab Assistant 2
Lindy is analyzing maize mutants with division plane orientation defects. Her glue impression protocol is here. Her paper examining subcellular localization of proteins is here.
Lindy is analyzing maize mutants with division plane orientation defects. Her glue impression protocol is here. Her paper examining subcellular localization of proteins is here.
Aimee Uyehara, Plant biology Graduate Student
Plants 3D Fellow 2020-2021, CEPCEB Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2023
Started September 2018
Aimee is analyzing how the division site localized protein TAN1 is recruited to the cell cortex, and the role of the telophase cortical array in division plan positioning here. Her review on redundancies in division plane positioning is here. Aimee's paper on unexpected PPB independent recruitment of TAN1 is here. Aimee is using whole-genome resequencing to map maize mutants. She is co-advised by Daniel Koenig.
Plants 3D Fellow 2020-2021, CEPCEB Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2023
Started September 2018
Aimee is analyzing how the division site localized protein TAN1 is recruited to the cell cortex, and the role of the telophase cortical array in division plan positioning here. Her review on redundancies in division plane positioning is here. Aimee's paper on unexpected PPB independent recruitment of TAN1 is here. Aimee is using whole-genome resequencing to map maize mutants. She is co-advised by Daniel Koenig.
Stephanie Martinez, Plant biology Graduate Student
Plants 3D Fellow 2021-2022, GAANN Awardee 2022,2023
Maize Genetics Conference MAGNET awardee 2022
Started October 2020
Stephanie is characterizing mutants with defects in microtubule dynamics. Paper here.
Plants 3D Fellow 2021-2022, GAANN Awardee 2022,2023
Maize Genetics Conference MAGNET awardee 2022
Started October 2020
Stephanie is characterizing mutants with defects in microtubule dynamics. Paper here.
Matthew Duong, Undergraduate student
Started March 2022
Summer 2022 RISE fellow, paper here. Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Understanding how AIR9 contributes to division plane positioning.
Started March 2022
Summer 2022 RISE fellow, paper here. Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Understanding how AIR9 contributes to division plane positioning.
Alondra Contreras, Undergraduate student
Started June 2022
2022 U-SPARC fellow, paper here. Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Understanding how AIR9 contributes to division plane positioning.
Started June 2022
2022 U-SPARC fellow, paper here. Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Understanding how AIR9 contributes to division plane positioning.
Cassetty Habib, Undergraduate student
12/2022, RISE Fellowship in 2023, Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Examining the role of microtubule organization in salt stress response.
12/2022, RISE Fellowship in 2023, Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024
Examining the role of microtubule organization in salt stress response.
Cassandra Irahola, Undergraduate student
Cassandra started in June 2023, RISE fellowship 2023, Chancellor's Minigrant Awardee 2024.
Examining the role of microtubule organization in salt stress response.
Makayla Drew, Plant Biology Graduate student
September 2023
Analyzing mutants with defects in cytokinesis
September 2023
Analyzing mutants with defects in cytokinesis
Ian Ceballos, Undergraduate student
Started March, 2024
Started March, 2024
Joseph Nguyen, Undergraduate student
Started April 2024
Started April 2024
Former lab members
Former PhD students
Alison Mills, Graduate Student, Biochemistry 02/2017- 06/2022
2021: Biochemistry DEI awardee and CEPCEB Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sinclair Award for Outstanding TA in 2018. Alison's protocol on seed chipping is here: bio-protocol3553.pdf, and her curriculum manuscript is here. Alison's paper on the functional characterization of the TAN1-POK1 interaction is here. Her paper exploring TAN1 restriction to the meristematic zone is here. Alison is doing her postdoc as an NIH IRACDA fellow in Bill Sullivan's lab. Former postdocs |
Pablo Martinez, Graduate Student, Biochemistry 02-2015-06/2019
Wedding award, 2019 CEPCEB Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Ford Foundation dissertation year fellowship Pablo's paper on TAN1 function in mitotic progression is here. His paper on modeling cell division is here. His paper on TAN1 microtubule binding is here. Pablo was awarded an HHMI-Hannah Gray fellowship in Siobhan Braybrook's lab and is now working at Fulgent. Wes Neher, Plant Biology Graduate Student 2018-2023
Wes rotated in January 2018, and was co-advised by Patty Springer. Wes is a co-author on this paper and first author on this paper exploring how cell division and expansion contribute to changes in stiffness during ligule development. |
Marschal Bellinger, Graduate Student, Plant Biology (2016-2020), GAANN Fellow 2016-2018, Graduated March 2020! Marschal's TBO staining protocol is here, and his maize seedling dark-growth protocol with Jeffrey Farrow is here. His paper on phragmoplast guidance is here. His paper on protein localization during division is here. Former Senior Scientist at Mozza Foods
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Ricardo Mir-Moreno, Postdoctoral researcher
Ricardo analyzed an enhancer of the tan1 mutant called auxin-induced-in-roots9, in collaboration with Professor Henrik Buschmann. Check out his tan1 air9 paper here. He identified low auxin signaling during late telophase and early G1 in maize using the DII-Venus marker (paper here). Current position: postdoctoral researcher at Politechnical University of Valencia (UPV) |
Hong Liang, Assistant Specialist
November 2017- May 2021 Hong worked on microtubule-binding proteins in Arabidopsis and maize. Hong's paper on IQD5's role in Arabidopsis pavement cell shape is here. |
Former students and technicians
Anadaisy Aguirre, Plant Biology Graduate Student
Rotation 11/2023-12/2023 Erik Chen, Riverside High School student
11/2023-02/2024 Zoe Zhang, Riverside Unified High School Student
June 2023-September 2023 Vivian Huang, Undergraduate student
Started January 2022-June 2023 Vivian examined localization of proteins during cell division, paper here. Minigrant recipient 2022. Shreya Agarwal, Undergraduate student
January 2022 - June 2023 Summer 2022 RISE fellow Rachel Strout, Graduate student
Rotation student 2021, joined the Nagel lab. Gabriela Salazar, Undergraduate student 11/2020-08/2022
U-SPARC Fellow 2020-2021, 2021 Neil Campbell Award for Excellence in undergraduate research. Check out her Undergrad symposium talk https://youtu.be/ZAWIYHjj1t8. Gaby is now a graduate student at UCR in the Nagel lab. Her paper is here. Alex Noriega, Undergraduate student (Plant Biology)
November 2019-January 2022, U-SPARC Fellow Alex analyzed microtubule dynamics, paper here. |
Mina Dalkiran, Undergraduate student
January 2022- March 2023 Andrea Romero, Graduate student
Rotation student 09/2022, joined the Groen lab, paper here. Audrey Choi, Undergraduate student
December 2021 - August 2022 Summer 2022 RISE fellow Dawson Byrd V, Undergraduate student, U-SPARC fellow 2020-2021
January 2021-April 2021, Dawson worked in Dr. Kerry Mauk's lab. His paper is here. Andrew Gomez, Undergraduate student (Biochemistry)
U-SPARC Fellow 2019, Graduated June 2020, Congratulations! March 2019 - September 2020 Now at Cedar Sinai Albert Nguyen, rotation student (Microbiology and Plant Pathology) January 2020-March 2020 Tyler Inskeep, Plant Biology Graduate student,
Rotation November - December 2021 Beatrice Diep, Undergraduate student (Biochemistry) July 2019- July 2022
SALSA-HHMI Fellow 2019, Chancellor's Research Fellowship Awardee 2021, Schraer Award (Biochemistry) 2022 Beatrice analyzed mutants with division plane defects, paper here. Short pitch: https://youtu.be/q6oNmm0borM Beatrice is now a grad student at UW Madison. |
Lourdes Flores, Undergraduate student
Started November 2020 -June 2021, U-SPARC fellow Congratulations on your new position at UCSF! Matthew Guevara, Graduate student (Biochemistry)
Fall rotation October - November 2020 Jeffrey Farrow, Undergraduate Student (Biology), U-SPARC fellow 2020
Jeffrey started November 2017 and worked on a cell expansion mutant in maize. His protocol on dark-grown maize seedlings is here: bio-protocol3555.pdf. Marina Ibrahim, Undergraduate Student (Biology)
U-SPARC fellow 2019 November 2017- December 2019 Marina worked on division plane mutants in Arabidopsis. Victoria Morris, Undergraduate Student HHMI SALSA Scholar 2016 ASPB SURF 2017, Graduated 2019
Victoria contributed to the tan1 air9 double mutant Plant Physiology paper here and TAN1 function paper here. MS student in Human Genetics at Rutgers. |
Sarah Gayer, Undergraduate student
CEPCEB-NSF REU Fellow June - August 2019 Janice Kim, Undergraduate Student (Biology), REU student
July 2018 - January 2021 Janice worked on maize mutants with defects in division plane orientation. Raquel Dieffenbacher, Undergraduate Student, U-SPARC Fellow 2018
October 2016 - June 2019 Raquel screened maize EMS mutant lines and contributed to the glue impression protocol here. Alejandro Quinones, Undergraduate Student 11/2017-06/2019
HHMI EXROP fellow 2018 Alejandro started November 2017 and worked on modeling Arabidopsis division plane mutants. Good luck in UCLA's med school Alejandro! Sukhmani Sidhu, Undergraduate Student MARC-U* pretrainee 2017
Medical Scholars Summer Research Program 2018, Graduated 2019 Sukhmani started in June 2017. Current Medical Student at California Health Sciences University, College of Medicine, paper here. |
Audrey Habron, NSF-CEPCEB REU Summer Scholar, July 2018 -August 2018
Audrey used confocal microscopy to analyze maize EMS mutants with defects in division plane orientation. Check out the CEPCEB webpage here. McKenzie Pickle, Undergraduate Student, 2015-2018
ASPB SURF fellow 2017 NSF-CEPCEB-REU fellowship 2016 McKenzie used mathematical modeling to analyze mutants with division plane defects. McKenzie is now teaching high school. Sareen Leon, Undergraduate Student
Sareen worked in the lab for 2 years on the localization of a TAN-interacting protein. Here is her paper on maize seed chipping. Tammy Peng, Undergraduate Student
HHMI SALSA Summer Scholar 2017 October 2016 - September 2017. Tammy screened maize EMS mutant lines. Kellyann Roberts, Undergraduate Student
Fall 2016 Grecia Lizaola-Velazquez, Undergraduate Student
October 2016 - May 2017 |
Michael Guzman, Plant Biology Graduate Student
December 2018 - January 2019. Michael is a graduate student in Dave Nelson's lab. His education paper is here. Teresa Guerre, Undergraduate HHMI-SALSA Summer Scholar
July 2018 - September 2018 Jocelyne Aranda, Undergraduate student, RISE Scholar 2017, Best poster at ASPB Western Regional Meeting 2018
September, 2016 - July 2018 Jocelyne used mathematical modeling to measure how cells divide. Danielle Thomas, Undergraduate Student
RISE Scholar 2017 March 2017 - September 2017 Leslie Aranda, MARC-U* Undergraduate researcher, Biochemistry major
October 2014 - June 2017 She contributed to the DII-Venus in maize paper linked here. Steven Ho, Undergraduate Student
Fall 2015-Winter 2016 |
Leticia Meza, Rotation Graduate Student, Plant Biology
Fall 2016. Leticia joined Patty Springer's Lab. Jenna Roper, MARC-U* Undergraduate researcher, Bioengineering major
Fall 2014-Spring 2015, now PhD student in Bioengineering at UCR Christopher Hoyt, CEPCEB REU student from Harvey Mudd College
Chris worked on a mathematical modeling approach to predict plant cell division, paper here. Here is the link to Chris' page on the CEPCEB REU website. Congratulations on your Goldwater Scholar Fellowship! Amy Kuang, Undergraduate student
(Fall-Spring 2014-2015) Tiffany Biaocchi, Rotation Student, Biochemistry
Winter 2015. Tiffany joined Adler Dillman's lab. Tiffany contributed to the DII paper here. |
Danielle Garceau, Rotation Graduate Student, Plant Biology
Winter 2016. Danielle joined Linda Walling's lab. Leo Islas, GradEdge GGB Rotation Student
Summer 2015. Lila Luna, Junior Specialist
Summer 2015. Lila is headed to Cornell for her PhD. Congratulations! Michael Schwartz, Rotation student, Plant Biology Program
Winter 2015. Michael joined Patty Springer's lab, now a postdoc with Ross Sozzani. Theodore John, Research Scientist, University of Wyoming
2013-2014 Claire Stowers, Undergraduate researcher, Biology, University of Wyoming
Congratulations on your 2013 INBRE Fellowship Claire! Dr. Claire Stowers 2020, Resident in Florida! |