Lab Members

Brian Staskawicz

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Brian is interested in the molecular basis of plant-pathogen interactions and engineering disease-resistant crops.

Doug Dahlbeck

LAB MANAGER & RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Doug works on plant-pathogen interactions and genome editing projects.

Furong Liu

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Furong is a postdoctoral researcher. He is interested in understanding the molecular basis of plant-pathogen interactions, immunity protein complex biochemistry and structure-guided functions, and genome engineering in plants.

Geoff Vrla

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Geoff is interested in the molecular basis of plant immune signaling downstream of pathogen recognition.

Youngbin Oh

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Noam Prywes

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Noam is a postdoctoral researcher joint with the Savage lab. He is studying rubisco biochemistry and chloroplast transformation technology.

Qiong Zhang

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Qiong is a postdoctoral researcher joint with the Dueber lab. She is interested in improving traits in crops through targeted mutagenesis using CRISPR.

Nicholas Karavolias

GRADUATE STUDENT

Nicholas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Plant and Microbial Biology program. He is studying stomatal developmental genetics and physiology in rice.

Evan Groover

GRADUATE STUDENT

Evan is a Ph.D. candidate, joint with the Savage lab, in the Plant and Microbial Biology program.

Arturo Ortega

GRADUATE STUDENT

Arturo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology program, joint with the Doudna lab.

Sarah Weber

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN

Sarah is interested in using genome editing to increase the stress tolerance of crops.

Ella Giguere

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Ella is studying molecular environmental biology.

egiguere26@berkeley.edu

Peyton Koch

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Peyton is studying genetics and plant biology with a minor in data science.

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