Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture | Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Wing Lab
Research Interests: genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology of crop plants and their wild relatives
Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture | Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Salt Lab
Research Interests: salinity tolerance, ion transport, sustainable food production systems
Associate Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of The Wulff Lab
Research Interests: wheat, wild wheat relatives, wild wheats, wheat rust, genomics, bioinformatics, resistance genes, gene cloning, GWAS, GM crops
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering | Principal Investigator of Interfacial Lab
Research Interests: biomimetics, superhydrophobic sand mulch, biochar, food–water security, soil physics & chemistry
Professor | Dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division
Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Plant Cell and Developmental Biology (LPCDB)
Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Lab
Professor of Bioengineering, Bioscience, and Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Assistant Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Stress Granule Lab
Professor of Plant Science and Bioengineering | Principal Investigator of the BioActives Lab | Associate Dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division
Research Interests: plant metabolic engineering, plant hormones, carotenoids and apocarotenoids, root parasitic plants, plant biotic interactions, small molecules, plant growth regulators
Assistant Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Cereal Genetics and Genomics Lab
Research Interests: cereal crops, genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, quantitative genetics
Professor of Plant Science and Environmental Science and Engineering
Research Interests: system science, materials modeling, water-food-energy security, biosphere management, earth systems science
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Research Interests: bioinformatics, omics tools, machine learning, biological db, HPC
Research Scientist
Research Interests: plant stress biology, plant microbe interaction, signal transduction
Research Scientist
Research Interests: plant comparative genomics, bioinformatics, transposable elements, directed evolution, genome sequencing
Research Scientist
Research Interests: plant immunity, epitranscriptome, epigenetics, plant signalling
Research Scientist
Research Interests: crops, genomics, transcriptomics, polyploidy, domestication, stress resilience
Research Scientist
Research Interests: genome engineering, directed evolution, RNA splicing
Research Scientist
Research Interests: quantitative genetics, functional phenomics, biostatistics, plant breeding
Research Scientist
Research Interests: carotenoids, apocarotenoids, plant hormones, photosynthesis, receptors, signaling molecules, beta carotene
Research Scientist
Research Interests: climate extreme impact, food and water security, population migration, social-ecological system, sustainability
Senior Research Scientist
Research Interests: personalized desert agriculture, microbial breeding, biostimulants, microbial genetic and bacterial evaluation
Research Scientist
Research Interests: bioinformatics, plant genetics, sequencing, comparative analysis, evolution
Research Scientist
Research Interests: metabolomics, LC-MS analytical methods, plant hormones, primary & secondary metabolites
Research Scientist
Research Interests: plant physiology, agronomy, weed biology and ecology, plant signalling and parasite-interactions
Research Scientist
Research Interests: synthetic biology, plant tissue culture (tobacco and rice), virus based plant genome engineering
Research Scientist
Research Interests: plant physiology, plant nutrition, salinity tolerance, root architecture, ion transport, nitrogen use efficiency
Research Scientist
Research Interests: CRISPR/Cas system, plant genome engineering, virus resistance, synthetic biology
Bioinformatician
Research Interests: bioinformatics, genome editing, genome engineering, synthetic biology
Research Specialist
Research Interests: carotenoids, carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase, apocarotenoids ccd, gene expression, enzymatic activity
Lab Support Technician
Research Interests: women's health, cardiovascular & neuro physiology
Research Specialist
Research Interests: plant molecular biology, plant secondary metabolites, cell culture and tissue culture, plant transformation studies
Research Assistant
Research Interests: plant science, molecular biology, data analysis
Research Specialist
Research Interests: plant genomics, transposable elements, quantitative genetics, evolutionary biology, population genomics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: microbiome, nematodes, microbial signals, networking, coalescence, desert ecosystem, plant breeding, pathogen resistance
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant genomics, population genetics, ancient DNA, bioinformatics, genome assembly, conservation, rice
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: socio-hydrology, water-food-energy nexus, resource optimization, dynamical systems modeling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant metabolism, plant physiology, plant hormones, improved plant performance, plant nutrition, plant productivity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: zaxionone, strigolactones, metabolomics, analytical chemistry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: root development, BIRD proteins, rice, microscopy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: rice, pearl millet, cereal transformation, gene assisted transformation, zaxionone
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), stress granules (SGs)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: heat tolerance, crop physiology, plant reproduction, stress phenotyping
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant-microbe interactions, plant stress tolerance, plant microbiome
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: disease resistance, cereal genetics and genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, cereal rust diseases
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant genetics, genomics, breeding, molecular biology, evolutionary genomics, crop diversity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant defense signaling, plant-microbe interactions, microbiome
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: disease resistance, cereal genetics and genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, rust pathology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant molecular biology, plant physiology, stress granules, phytohormones
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: bioinformatics, platinum-standard RefSeq genomes, genome annotation, ontologies, expression analysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: metabolomics, abiotic stress, cell wall analysis, molecular biology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: disease resistance, rust resistance, HMW DNA, Golden Gate cloning
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant molecular biology, plant immunity, immune receptors
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: root development, developmental biology, genetics, cell biology and molecular biology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: CRISPR/Cas, directed evolution, crop improvement
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: apocarotenoids, carotenoids, genetics, metabolic engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Arabidopsis root patterning, flowering regulation, bioinformatics, biotic and abiotic stress, genetics
BioE PhD Candidate
Research Interests: synthetic biology, genome engineering, bioproduction, bioinformatics
PhD Student
Research Interests: plant molecular biology, reverse genetics, CRISPR/Cas, apocarotenoids, zaxionone
PhD Student
Research Interests: wild wheats, plant disease resistance, genomics, bioinformatics, population genomics
Master/PhD Student
Research Interests: bioinformatics, genome sequencing, gene annotation
PhD Student
Research Interests: plant genetics, plant phenotyping, genome-wide association studies, genotype x environment interactions
Master/PhD Student
Research Interests: genome engineering, CRISPR/Cas, genome editing, food security
PhD Student
Research Interests: biomolecular condensates, stress granules (SGs), processing bodies, plant stress response
PhD student
Research Interests: plant-microbe interactions, transcriptomics, plant genetics, plant phenotyping, abiotic stress, bioinformatics
Visiting PhD Student
Research Interests: water-energy nexus, water resources management, carbon emissions, system analysis
PhD Student
Research Interests: viral vectors, bio-production, synthetic biology
Master/PhD Student
Research Interests: tomato, salinity tolerance, grafting, polyploidy
PhD Student
Research Interests: rice genomics, plant genomics, plant science, bioinformatics, scientific writing, science outreach, food security, sustainability
PhD Student
Research Interests: genomics, microbiome, Salvadora persica (Miswak tree)
PhD Student
Research Interests: CEA, controlled environment agriculture, CO2 enrichment, food systems, sustainability
Master Student
Research Interests: developmental biology, gene-editing technology, molecular biology