Professor of Plant Science, Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture
Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Ion transport, Sustainable food production systems
Professor, Plant Science
Research Interests: Plant metabolic engineering, Plant hormones, Carotenoids and Apocarotenoids, Root Parasitic Plants, Plant Biotic Interactions, Small Molecules, Plant Growth Regelators
Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Research Interests: Cereal crops, Genomics, Plant-pathogen interactions, Quantitative genetics
CDA System Administrator
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Omics Tools, Machine Learning, Biological DB, HPC
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Plant comparative genomics, Bioinformatics, Transposable elements, Evolution, Genome sequencing, Genome assembly, Genome annotation
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Genome engineering, Directed evolution, RNA splicing
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Carotenoids, Apocarotenoids, Plant hormones, Photosynthesis, Receptors, Signaling Molecules, Beta carotene, Biomass, Yield
Senior Research Scientist
Research Interests: Personalized Desert Agriculture, Microbial breeding, Biostimulants, Microbial genetic and bacterial evaluation, Plant microbiome, Function synthetic community (Fun SynCom).
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Plant physiology, Agronomy, Weed biology and Ecology, Plant signaling and parasite-interactions, Phytohormoes and Biostimulants
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, Signal transduction, MAPK signaling, Plant stress biology, Transcriptional and Translational control, Proteomics, Phosphoproteomics, SWATH-MS, Post-translational modifications of proteins, Proteogenomics
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Food/water/energy nexus, Controlled environment agriculture, Saltwater-based agriculture, Aquaponics, Horticulture lighting, Circular agriculture system
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
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
Greenhouse Technician
Research Interests: Crossing , grafting tomatoes. Germination and propagating Coarctata rice
Research Specialist
Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, domestication, Field trails, Crop wild relatives
Research assistant
Research Interests: Plant Science, Molecular biology and data analysis
Lab Techinician
Research Interests: Biochemistry, Diabetes Research, Genetics, Plant Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, DARWIN21, desert bacteria, endophytes, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs), plant microbiome, soil microbial community, synthetic community (SynCom), Plant microbe interaction
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Plant genomics and evolution, Population Genetics, Bioinformatics, Genome assembly
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Plant stress biology, Plant microbe interaction, Signal transduction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: plant immunity, epitranscriptome, epigenetics, plant signalling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Crops, Genomics, transcriptomics, polyploidy, domestication, stress resilience
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Root development, BIRD proteins, Rice, Microscopy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Rice, pearl millet, cereal transformation, gene assisted transformation, Zaxionone, creation of expression diversity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), Stress granules (SGs)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Plant Secondary Metabolites, Plant microbe interaction, Metabolome, Phytohormones
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Plant genetics, Sequencing, Comparative analysis, Evolution
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Plant Microbiology, Plant abiotic stress, Drought, Salinity, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plant Immunity, Auxin homeostasis, Glucosinolates, Confocal microscopy, Arabidopsis, Wheat, Tomato
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Disease resistance, Cereal genetics and genomics, Plant-pathogen interactions
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, Biostatistics, Abiotic and Biotic Plant Stress, Vegetable Breeding, Population Genetics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, Plant tissue culture (tobacco and rice), Virus based plant genome engineering, CRISPR/Cas 9 (Cas9 and Cas13) technology for plant genome engineering, CRISPR/Cas13 based RNA virus interference in plants, CRISPR/Cas13 based RNA manipulation in plants, Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Salt-Tolerance), Photoperiodic flowering in Arabidopsis, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Biochemistry, Cross-talks between Flowering and Salt stress Tolerance, High Affinity Potassium Transport in Arabidopsis and Thellungiella salsuginea, Plant Physiology
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: Date palm development, Immunocytochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Apocarotenoids, Carotenoids, Genetics, metabolic engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Rice, Genome, Comparative Genomics, Genetics, Evolution, NGS, PACBIO, Seuqel2, HiFi, Gene assembly, Iso-seq, RNA-Seq, Structural Variation, TE, Maize, Wheat, Spirodela, Traits, Gene regulation, Phenotyping
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Plant Molecular Biology, Reverse genetics, CRISPR-Cas, Apocarotenoids, Zaxionone
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Plant Science, Plant-Pathogen Interaction, Reactive Oxygen Signaling, MAPK signaling, Translation, Ribosomes
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Plant Genetics, Plant Phenotyping, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Genotype x Environment interactions, Plant Domestication, Climate Change
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Crop domestication, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Population Genetics, Plant Biology and Desert agriculture
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Zaxionone, Strigolactones, Metabolomics, Analytical chemistry
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Plant-Bacterial interactions, transcriptomics, Molecular Biology
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Tomato, Salinity tolerance, Grafting, polyploidy
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Plant genetics, Plant signalling and plant Biochemistry
PhD student
Research Interests: Plant Molecular Biology, Protein interaction, Strigolactones, Striga hermonthica germination inhibition
Master Student
Research Interests: Genome engineering, CRISPR-Cas, Genome editing, Food security
Master Student
Research Interests: Genome editing, CRISPR, Crop improvement