Postdoctoral Fellows

Abdallah Awad

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ahmed Elhady

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: microbiome, nematodes, microbial signals, networking, coalescence, desert ecosystem, plant breeding, pathogen resistance

Alice Fornasiero

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant genomics, population genetics, ancient DNA, bioinformatics, genome assembly, conservation, rice

Anamika Rawat

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant stress biology, plant microbe interaction, signal transduction

Ansir Ilyas

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: socio-hydrology, water-food-energy nexus, resource optimization, dynamical systems modeling

Arsheed H. Sheikh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant immunity, epitranscriptome, epigenetics, plant signalling

Ashraf Kibriya

Postdoctoral Fellow

Claudia Yveline Pailles Galvez

Postdoctoral Fellow

Derry Alvarez De Jesus

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dongryung Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: salinity tolerance, rice

Eric Jian You Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: zaxionone, strigolactones, metabolomics, analytical chemistry

Gopal Misra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gwendolyn Kirschner

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: root development, BIRD proteins, rice, microscopy

Hendrik (Nico) Kuijer

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: rice, pearl millet, cereal transformation, gene assisted transformation, zaxionone

Himanshu Vishwas Patankar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Israel Maruri Lopez

Postdoctoral Fellow

Itzell Euridice Hernandez Sanchez

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), stress granules (SGs)

Jiemeng Xu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: heat tolerance, crop physiology, plant reproduction, stress phenotyping

Kashif Nawaz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Katja Froehlich

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant-microbe interactions, plant stress tolerance, plant microbiome

Khalid Sedeek

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant genome engineering, crop improvement

Kirti Singh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lamia Aouini

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: disease resistance, cereal genetics and genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, cereal rust diseases

Laxman Adhikari

Postdoctoral Fellow

Maria Fernanda Nava Ocampo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: water sustainability

Naheed Tabassum

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant defense signaling, plant-microbe interactions, microbiome

Naveenkumar Athiyannan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: disease resistance, cereal genetics and genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, rust pathology

Nicolas Augsburger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nicolas E. Figueroa Fuentealba

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant molecular biology, plant physiology, stress granules, phytohormones

Noor Al-Bader

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: bioinformatics, platinum-standard RefSeq genomes, genome annotation, ontologies, expression analysis

Paula Oyarce Sgro

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: metabolomics, abiotic stress, cell wall analysis, molecular biology

Rabeaa Alkhateeb

Postdoctoral Fellow

Radim Svacina

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: disease resistance, rust resistance, HMW DNA, Golden Gate cloning

Renjie Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: plant molecular biology, plant immunity, immune receptors

Rezwan Tariq

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sabiha Parween

Postdoctoral Fellow

Shanshan Song

Postdoctoral Fellow

Shyam Gundu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: root development, developmental biology, genetics, cell biology and molecular biology

Sivakrishna Gundra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: CRISPR/Cas, directed evolution, crop improvement

Syed Haleem Shah

Postdoctoral Fellow

Urooj Fatima

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wouter Smet

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xiongjie Zheng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: apocarotenoids, carotenoids, genetics, metabolic engineering

Yağız Alagöz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yajun Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yan (Luby) Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yong Zhou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: rice, variants, genes, evolution

Zeeshan Nasim

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Arabidopsis root patterning, flowering regulation, bioinformatics, biotic and abiotic stress, genetics