Last modified 1 March 2009

Peter LaFayette

 

The Staff

Barbara Artelt

  • Research technician
  • Lived mostly in Athens,GA
  • BS in Animal Science from UGA
  • Maize transformation technology
Ping Wu

  • From Shanghai, China
  • Research technician
  • Genetic engineering of switchgrass
Donna Tucker

  • Born and raised in Georgia
  • Research technician
  • Genetic engineering of soybean
Kristen Chesser

  • From: Tunnel Hill,Georgia
  • Soybean tissue culture & transformation

Undergraduate Research Theses

April McDaniel

  • Major: Applied Biotechnology
  • From: Waynesboro, Georgia
  • Carotenoids engineering in soybean
Emily Pierce

  • Major: Applied Biotechnology
  • From: Lawrenceville, Georgia
  • Carotenoid engineering in soybean
Wesley Leftwitch

  • Major: Genetics
  • From: New Orleans, LA
  • Carotenoid genetics

 

Graduate Students

Doug Heckart

  • From: Oregon
  • BS in Biotechnology and Agronomy
  • Sethoxydim resistance in turfgrasses
  • Promoter activity in maize retroelements
Zach King

  • From: New York
  • BS in Biotechnology
  • Switchgrass transformation
Tom Jacobs

  • From: Connecticut
  • BS in Horticulture & cell biology
  • Engineering nematode resistance in soybean
Marķa Ortega

  • From: Colombia, via Ohio State
  • BS in Horticulture & cell biology
  • Insect resistance in soybean


 

The Student Workers

 

Melissa Cook

  • Major: Biology
  • From: Dalton, Georgia
  • Tissue culture & transformation
Tionya DeBerry

  • Major: Biology/PreMed
  • From Douglasville, Georgia
  • Tissue culture & transformation
Ronald Franco

  • Major: incomming to Applied Biotechnology
  • From Athens, Georgia (via Guatemala)
  • Tissue culture & transformation
Allie Kerr

  • Major: Horticulture
  • From Athens, Georgia
  • Clover breeding and genetics
April Lang

  • Major: Biological Sciences
  • From: Colbert, GA
  • Switchgrass tissue culture

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Nidhi Patel

  • Major:
  • From:
  • Tissue culture & transformation
Andrew Yeager

  • Major: Biology
  • From Alpharetta, Georgia
  • Vector assembly & molecular analyses

And, the Postdoc....


Nathan Hancock

  • Transposon mutagenesis in soybean
  • From Arizona
  • PhD from University of Missouri, Columbia

Also, check out some of our former lab personnel who forgot to take their pictures with them....

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