Sairam Rudrabhatla's Current Lab Personnel

Dr. Sairam's Research Group

Dr. Shobha Devi Potlakayala

Assistant Professor
(SET & Continuing Education)

Staff

Dr. Potlakayala’s area of specialization is in cell and molecular biology, plant-microbe interactions, plant tissue culture and transformation, and functional genomics.

Research interests include: biofuels, plant vaccines, genetic engineering of disease-resistant crops, signal transduction mechanisms, regulation of gene expression, proteomics and cancer research.

Mr. Ben Tabatabi

Research Data Management Specialist

project: Genetic Engineering for Stress Tolerance in bioenergy crops, i.e. Jatropha curas.

Graduate Students
(Ph. D. and Master)

Mr. Diego Morales

Masters Student

Researching Camelina Tissue Culture, regeneration and transgenics
Quote: It is truly a pleasure working on a part of a solution to a major issue that this country faces. In the coming years, I hope to see this research move from the drawing board to the practical.

Mr. Deepkamal Karelia
Ph. D. Student

Developing nutritionally enhanced crops with anticancer and Human Interest Proteins

Quote “I have done so far, I am ready for Graduate school at Penn State University - College of Medicine.”

Ms. Fatima Fofanah

Master Student

Graduate Student

Major: Genetic engineering for stress tolerance in bioenergy crops.

Undergraduate Students

Ms. Jyothi Kakuturu

Sophomore at Pennsylvania State University
Major: Life Science
Quote: “I’ve learned so much from experienced professors and graduate students. This is the experience of a lifetime.”

project Micropropagation of Simarouba

Mr. Matt Reitzel

project Genetic Engineering of Tomato with Nutritionally enriched genes, Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering of American Chestnut for Disease Resistance, and Genetic Engineering of Tobacco.

Shyam Menon