Dr Jenny Mortimer (PI)
2021 – Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
2021- Affiliate Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2018- 2020 Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2014-2018 Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2013-2014 RIKEN FPR fellow, Demura Group, RIKEN Yokohama, Japan
2007-2013 Postdoctoral Research, Dupree Group, University of Cambridge UK
2008 PhD Plant Physiology, University of Cambridge, UK (supervisor: Dr Julia Davies)
2003 MRes Bioinformatics, University of Exeter, UK (research conducted at La Trobe University, Australia)
2002 BSc (hons) Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Yu Gao (postdoc)
2018, PhD Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2011, BS Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Dr Xiaoxian Liu (postdoc)
2018, PhD Biology, University of Floria, Florida, USA
2011, MSc Botany, Zhejiang University, China
Dr Yuan Zhang (postdoc joint with Dr. Henrik Scheller)
2018, PhD Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
2012, BS Marine Life Resources and Environment, Shandong University, China
Dr Tallyta Silva (Senior Research Associate)
2019, PhD in Genetics and Genomics, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA
2014, Masters in Agronomy (Genetics and Plant Breeding), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
2012, BA in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Brazil
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, USA
Dr Rebecca Dewhirst (postdoc joint with Dr. Kolby Jardine on acetylation/methylation of poplar cell walls)
2016-2019, Postdoc, University of Exeter, UK
2015, PhD, Plant Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
2011, BSc Biology, University of York, UK
Dr Hsiao-Han Lin (postdoc)
2020 PhD Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2012 MS (hons) Plant-microbe interactions, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2010 BSc (hons) Biochemical Science & Technology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dr Destiny Davis (postdoc)
2020, PhD Plant Biology, University of California Davis, USA
2012, BS (hons) Biology, University of Central Arkansas
Former Lab Members
Dr Kavitha Satish Kumar (postdoc)
Dr Wenjia Wang (postdoc)
Now a Scientific Editor at Molecular Plant and Plant Communications Journals, Shanghai, China
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
