Current Members

Postdoctoral Associates

Ryan Kirkbride (June 2013) (Postdoctoral Fellow) PhD (Plant Biology) University of California, Davis Research Interests: Epigenomic regulation of seed development in Arabidopsis and cotton.
Xiaoya Song (January 2018) (Postdoctoral Fellow) PhD (Plant Biology) University of California, Davis Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of seed development and interspecies hybridization in Arabidopsis.
Zhi Li (July 2019) (Postdoctoral Fellow) PhD (Crop Genetics and Breeding) China Agricultrual University Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of heterosis in maize and epigenomic interactions in allotetraploid cotton.
Luis M. De Santiago (June 2020) (Postdoctoral Fellow) PhD (Genetics), Texas A&M University MS (Biology) University of Texas-Pan American Research Interests: Epigenomic regulation of recombination and introgression in Arabidopsis and cotton

Graduate Students

Atsumi Ando
PhD Student (September 2014, Plant Biology)

Research Interest: Seed development in Arabidopsis and fiber development in cotton.

Viviana June (November 2015)
PhD Student (Cellular and Molecular Biology)

Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of hybrid vigor during embryo development.

Da Yea Park (September 2019)
(PhD Student, Plant Biology)

Research Interest: Genetic and epigenetic regulation in Arabidopsis and cotton polyploids.

Undergraduate Students

Dylan Suchich (September 2015)

Undergraduate student, Neurobiology
Lab research assistant

Sara Cornett (September 2014)

Undergraduate Student, Biology
Lab research assistant

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Researchers Create Largest Ever Map of Plant Proteins and Their Assemblies

April 2, 2020

In a new paper in Cell, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin offer the largest survey to date of proteins in plants, examining 13 different species across 1.1 billion years of plant evolution. Their findings could have practical applications such as increasing crop yields, understanding disease and stress resistance in plants and informing biofuel production. Read Read more about Researchers Create Largest Ever Map of Plant Proteins and Their Assemblies

Genomes Assembled from Five Cotton Species Could Lead to Better Varieties

April 20, 2020

Cotton producers in Texas, elsewhere in the US and around the world are looking for new varieties that can better withstand droughts, pests and pathogens, yet yield higher-quality fibers for the textile industry. To help accelerate the breeding and improvement of cotton varieties, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere teamed up to produce the reference-grade genomes of all five species, including two cultivated cottons. Their results were published in the journal Nature

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