PhD Students

Aaron Pantoja Angles

BioE PhD Candidate

Research Interests: synthetic biology, genome engineering, bioproduction, bioinformatics

Abdugaffor Ablazov

PhD Student

Research Interests: plant molecular biology, reverse genetics, CRISPR/Cas, apocarotenoids, zaxionone

Abdulrahman Alhabsi

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: molecular biology, genome engineering

Ahad Moussa Kababji

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: genome engineering, synthetic biology

Ahmed Ghouneimy

Master/PhD Student

Aiman Fakieh

PhD Student

Alice Stra

PhD Student

Amal Alghamdi

PhD Student

Amer Alrudayan

PhD Student

Andrea Gonzalez Munoz

PhD Student

Research Interests: wild wheats, plant disease resistance, genomics, bioinformatics, population genomics

Aseel Alsantely

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: bioinformatics, genome sequencing, gene annotation

Baoda Han

PhD Student

Edith Sanchez Hernandez

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: genome engineering, CRISPR/Cas, genome editing, food security

Fareena Rafique

Master/PhD Student

Fatema Alquraish

PhD Student

Research Interests: biomolecular condensates, stress granules (SGs), processing bodies, plant stress response

Fatimah Abdulhakim

Master/PhD Student

Fatimah Aljedaani

PhD Student

Francisco Ayala

Master/PhD Student

Guan-Ting Chen

Master/PhD Student

Hafiz Umar Farooq

PhD student

Research Interests: plant-microbe interactions, transcriptomics, plant genetics, plant phenotyping, abiotic stress, bioinformatics

Hasna Ezzine

PhD Student

Ibrahim Tarbiyyah

PhD Student

Izamar Olivas Orduna

Master/PhD Student

Jing Lu

Visiting PhD Student

Jose Gonzalez Kise

Master/PhD Student

Jose Luis Moreno Ramirez

PhD Student

Research Interests: genome editing, CRISPR, crop improvement

Leonardo Fabbian

PhD Student

Linah Alghanmi

PhD Student

Louai Alidrissi

PhD Student

Mengjie Yang

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interests: water-energy nexus, water resources management, carbon emissions, system analysis

Mohammed Shahid Chaudhary

PhD Student

Research Interests: viral vectors, bio-production, synthetic biology

Nathaly Rodriguez Ortiz

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: tomato, salinity tolerance, grafting, polyploidy

Nicola Secco

PhD Student

Pei-Yu Lin

PhD Student

Research Interests: abc transporter, apocarotenoids, SLs

Pepijn Bais

PhD Student

Qiaochu Wang

Master/PhD Student

Radwa Kamel

Master/PhD Student

Research Interests: molecular biology, genome engineering

Saule Mussurova

PhD Student

Research Interests: rice genomics, plant genomics, plant science, bioinformatics, scientific writing, science outreach, food security, sustainability

Senzeni Ndlovu

PhD Student

Somiya Saferuddin

PhD Student

Research Interests: genomics, microbiome, Salvadora persica (Miswak tree)

Tatiana Castillo Hernández

PhD Student

Research Interests: developmental biology, gene-editing technology, molecular biology

Tin Marsic

PhD Student

Research Interests: genome engineering, synthetic biology

Violeta Londono Velez

PhD student

Research Interests: stress granules, composition, proteomics

Wenjun Jiang

PhD Student

Research Interests: genome editing, CRISPR

Wiam Alsharif

Master/PhD Student

Willow Martin

Master/PhD Student

Yang Zhang

PhD Student

Yara Elborolosy

PhD Student

Yasha Zhang

PhD Student

Research Interests: marine ecology, materials modeling

Yijiang Xie

PhD Student

Yinghui Luo

PhD Student

Yu Yang

PhD Student

Research Interests: marine ecology, materials modeling

Yunchuan Wang

PhD Student

Zulma Lopez Reyes

PhD Student

Research Interests: CEA, controlled environment agriculture, CO2 enrichment, food systems, sustainability