Dr Jenny Mortimer (PI)
2002 BSc (hons) Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2003 MRes Bioinformatics, University of Exeter, UK (research conducted at La Trobe University, Australia)
2008 PhD Plant Physiology, University of Cambridge, UK (supervisor: Dr Julia Davies)
2007-2013 Postdoctoral Research, Dupree Group, University of Cambridge UK
2013-2014 RIKEN FPR fellow, Demura Group, RIKEN Yokohama, Japan
Dr Kavitha Satish Kumar (postdoc)
2018 PhD Biological Sciences, Michigan Technical University, USA
2010 MSc Applied Genetics, Bangalore University, India
2008 BSc Microbiology, University of Mumbai, India
Dr Yu Gao (postdoc)
2011, BS Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
2018, PhD Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dr Xiaoxian Liu (postdoc)
2011, MSc Botany, Zhejiang University, China
2018, PhD Biology, University of Floria, Florida, USA
Dr Yuan Zhang (postdoc joint with Dr.Henrik Scheller)
2012, BS Marine Life Resources and Environment, Shandong
University, China
2018, PhD Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Dr Tallyta Silva (Research Associate)
2012, BA in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Brazil
2014, Masters in Agronomy (Genetics and Plant Breeding), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
2019, PhD in Genetics and Genomics,University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Mr Jonathan Diab (Research Assistant)
2017, B.S., Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, with honors, B.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, with honors. University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr Rebecca Dewhirst (postdoc joint with Dr. Kolby Jardine on acetylation/methylation of poplar cell walls)
2011, BSc Biology, University of York, UK
2015, PhD, Plant Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
2016-2019, Postdoc, University of Exeter, UK
Former Lab Members
Dr Cinta Gomez Silvan (postdoc joint with Dr. Gary Andersen on EcoPOD project)
Now a Scientist III, Molecular Biology R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dr Ramana Pidatala (Senior Research Associate at LBNL)
Now a Principal Research Associate at LBNL in the Gladden group
Eliot Magnin (Visiting Masters Student)
Returned to complete their Masters in Biotechnology at Polytech Clemont-Ferrand, France
Robin Herbert (Research Assistant)
Jointly supervised by Aindrila Mukhopadhyay
Now a graduate student (as of Sept. ’18) at UC Berkeley in the lab of Adam Deutschbauer.
Sophie Tran (UC Berkeley Student Assistant)
Graduated 2018, and started working at Seqmatic, CA.
Jade Pezard (Visiting Masters Student)
Returned to complete their Masters in Agronomic Engineering at AgroParisTech, France
Pablo Bouchez (Visiting Masters Student)
Returned to complete their Masters in Biotechnology at Polytech Clemont-Ferrand, France
Dr Lin Fang (postdoc)
Now an Assistant Professor at the CAS South China Botanical Gardens, Guangzhou, China
Dr Beibei Jing (postdoc)
Now at the City College of San Francisco
Dr Julien Sechet (postdoc)
Now an Agreenskills Fellow at the Institut Jean Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
Marianne Colomes (Visiting Masters Student)
Logistical engineer, Nutribio, Paris, France
Soe Htwe (Research Associate)
Now an RA at Resilience Industries, San Francisco (and a budding pastry chef!)
Jeemeng Lao (Research Associate)
Now a grad student at University of Southern California, LA
Emilie Rennie (LSRF fellow)
Now at Callisto Media, Berkeley CA
Dominik Bodi (Biotech Partners High School Intern)
Malgorzata Murawska (Gosia) (Masters student/Research Assistant)
Now a graduate student at the University of Basel, with Prof. Dennis Gillingham
Fekadu Anderbehan (Part-time Research Assistant)
Vy Ngo (UC Berkeley Student Assistant)
Became a Junior Specialist in the Schaffer Lab, UCB.
Now a Research Associate at Zymergen, Emerville, CA
Dr Thea Pick (DFG Research Fellow)
Moved to become a postdoc in the Weber group, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
Dr Amir Mahboubi (postdoc)
Moved to become a postdoc at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
