People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Ayalew Ligaba Osena (PI)

Associate Professor

UNCG-Biology
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

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Graduate Students

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Muhammad Numan

PhD student-Since January 2021

 

 

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Raza Ullah

PhD student-Since January 2021

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Abreham Bekele Alemu

PhD student-Since August 2022

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Temesgen Dagnaw Sendek

PhD student-Since August 2024

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Undergraduate/postbac students

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Maggie ODaniel

Postbac student-since June 2023

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Bubacarr Jallow

Undergraduate since September 2023

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Seren Wang

Undergraduate student-Since May 2024

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Amber Fairchild

Undergraduate student-Since May 2024

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Shannon Lumpkin

Undergraduate student-Since June 2024

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Lea Behnke

Undergraduate student-Since June 2024

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Stacy Mabiala

Undergraduate student- Since August 2024

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Angela Riano Mendez

Undergraduate student- Since August 202

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Terranee Anderson

Postbac student- Since August 2024

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Tanner Lyons

Undergraduate student- Since August 2024

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Nicholas Yeboah

Undergraduate student- Since August 2024

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Jasmin Galbreath

(Undergraduate student- Since August 2024)

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Mohamed Nisar

(High School Volunteer since August 2024)

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Nishitha Daniel

From Early College at Guilford

Since Summer of 2023 (Draelos Scholar)

Volunteer student researcher

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Summer 2024 interns from high schools

Deniz Keser

Graduated from Grimsley High School

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Draelos Scholars

Ehshi Na

From Early College of Forsyth

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Meredith Presnell

From Early College of Guilford

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Adam Tart

From Wesleyan Christian Academy high school

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Shivani

Green Level High School

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Summer 2023 interns from high schools

Deniz Keser

From Grimsley High School

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Alexis Croatt (Draelos Scholar)

From Corner Stone High School

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Former lab members

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Dr. Wanli Guo

 

 

 

 

Visiting scholar from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

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Dr. Barbara Amoah

Part-time researcher

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Dr. Mohammad Salehin

 

 

 

 

Post doctoral researcher

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Dr. Sang Chul Choi

Post doctoral researcher

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Former Students

Anastasia Romanov (MS)

 

 

 

 

 

Masters student- August 2021- December 2023

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Eric Whisnant

Postbac student- April 2022-July 2024

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Victoria Cook

Undergraduate student- January 2024-May 2024

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Christian Keith

Undergraduate student- August 2022-Decemeber 2023

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Daniel Araya

Undergraduate student- August 2021- May 2024

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Sean Williams

Postbac student Summer 2023

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Carlos Morales-Sanchez

Postbac student Summer and Fall 2023

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Alyssa Hill

Postbac Fall 2023

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Michael Mcrae

Postbac Fall 2023

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Willy Pina

Postbac student-Since April 2022

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Abdalkader Salaimah

Undergraduate student

Jade Lyons

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate student

Norvinyo Abiti

 

 

 

Post-bac

Austin Cotten

 

 

 

Post-bac

Kaleigh Roe

 

 

 

 

Post-bac

Peyton LaBonte

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate

Jenna Wammock

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate

Katherine Craib

 

 

 

Undergraduate

Sunshine Alvarez

 

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Kale-kidan Berhe

 

 

 

 

 

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Quashawn Chedwick

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Christopher Cotter

 

 

 

 

 

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Winta Daniel

 

 

 

 

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Myia Hall

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Juan House-Hernandez

 

 

 

 

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Niska Majumdar

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Emiri Michishita

 

 

 

 

 

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Daniel Park

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Aashika Ramkumar

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 Helina Talbot

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Fatima Shahid

Undergraduate student-Since September 2021

Scarlett Perez

Undergraduate student-Summer 2021

Aliya Warris – Summer 2021

Undergraduate student-Summer 2021

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Colt Russel

Undergraduate student-Since September 2021

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Jaime Richardson

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Hisham Mohamed

Undergraduate student-Since August 2022

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