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Pooja Patel
Main responsibilities include coordination of all experiments run by undergraduate students, maintaining and supervising the lab, and working on tissue culture and transformation experiments in bioenergy crops.

Dr. Pranjal Hazarika
Expertise: Plant regeneration and transformation in important agricultural crops like tomato, rice, GM crops/transgenic technology usage for abiotic stress tolerance and fungal disease resistance, cloning and molecular analyses, protein expression and purification, fungal biotechnology, bioinformatics and Phylogenetic analyses.
Research Interests: Biofuels and sustainable agriculture, GM crops for biotic and abiotic stress, RNAi silencing, Plant Polyamines, LiTAFs like proteins in Botyrtis cinerea and its medical implications, Phylogenetic analyses

Katelynn Curtis, Bio 496
Micropropagation of Jatropha curcas

Samantha Gaud, Bio 496
Micropropagation of Jatropha curcas

Fathima Hamid, Bio 496
Genetic engineering of Camelina sativa for high biodiesel production

Nina Kay
Tissue culture studies in Camelina sativa

Sonia Leng
Switchgrass and cellulosic ethanol

Brandon Pfeffer
Cloning of disease-resistant genes

Wendy Yu
Tissue culture studies in Camelina sativa
Michelle Boylston, Bio 496 Cancer Research Photo not available
Samantha Gaud Photo not available
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