People

 

 

 

 

 

Principal Investigator


Colleen Doherty

Email: cjdohert<at>ncsu.edu 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Edmaritz Hernandez-Pagan

Email: ehernan6 < at > ncsu.edu

Plant Biomining Systems for Rare Earth Elements

Rare earth elements are essential to modern technology and renewable energy economies. Yet their acquisition is expensive and damaging to the environment. My research interest is in developing plant biomining systems that efficiently extract rare earth elements from bedrock or waste streams to reduce the environmental footprint and costs of providing rare earth elements for our economy. This work could reduce our dependence on foreign sources for rare earth elements improving the transition to a renewable economy.

Tyler “Blake” Horton

Email: tbhorton <_at_>ncsu.edu

Interactions between the Circadian Clock and Simulated Microgravity

My research focuses on how the circadian clock functions in microgravity. I used clinostats to simulate microgravity on Earth at Kennedy Space Center and performed 48-hour time courses under simulated microgravity to observe the effect of microgravity on the circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana. RNA-seq analysis has shown that the circadian clock is disrupted under simulated microgravity. I am also focusing on how elevated CO2 levels affect nutritional quality in microgreens. NMR will be used to identify differences in metabolites in microgreens grown at normal 400ppm CO2 and elevated 3000ppm CO2.

JENNIFER TAPIA 

Warm Nighttime Temperatures

ANISA GUEDIRA

Microbial Regulators of Plant REE Accumulation

LUCAS BAUER

Image Analysis to Improve Genetic Evaluations

Master’s Students

Lindsay Hemphill

Email:

Breeding for Improved Uptake of Rare Earth Elements

Aditya Singh

Email:

Integration of Dynamic Image Data Analysis

Research Technician

Allison Haynes

An alumnus of NCSU’s Biochemistry program, Allison is leading a project focused on cleaning up Produced Water, the water from fracking with plant and microbial-based systems.

Visiting Scientists

Sungbeom Lee

Visiting from the Advanced Radiation Technology Institute (ARTI) and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI).

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

  • Ainsley Horton
  • Patrick Cardona-Cosner
  • Swapnil Banerjee
  • Mariah Saavedra
  • Elaina Plower

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Kanjana Laosuntisuk- Postdoctoral Researcher, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Erin Slabaugh – Scientist III BASF
  • Cyprian Rajabu – Hanley-Bowdin Lab
PH.D. Students 
  • Jigar Desai– Post Doc, Wave Life Sciences Boston, MA
  • Dmitry Grinevich- Post Doc, NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Joseph Tolsma-
  • Montana Knight-
  • Kanjana Laosuntisuk (See above)
Master’s Students
  • Jiaqi Duan– Research Associate II, Forty Seven, Inc, San Francisco
  • Eric Waddell – Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
  • Kanjana Laosuntisuk (see above!)
  • Donna Liebelt – Lumen Bioscience Seattle, Washington
Undergraduates
  • Zach Allen
  • Faith Bradshaw
  • Evan Brown
  • Elizabeth Byers
  • Joey Crapster
    • PhD Program at University of Texas, Austin
  • Ricky Critchfield
  • Shannon Conroy
    • MS, University of Basel
    • PhD program Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Laura Dale
  • Jacob Fredenberg
  • Sarah Garfinkle
  • Alex Harris
    • PhD Program at Virginia Tech
  • Kevin Hart
  • Blake Horton (See above!)
  • Archna Johnson
  • Copeland Lachapelle
  • Jacob Lasky
    • Data Analytics Program NCSU
  • Ashley May
  • Aleya Mohamed
  • Nyssa Nday-Bongo
  • Ari Ogunda
  • Luong Phan
  • Sammy Rueckeis
  • Imani Ross
  • Kaetlyn Ryan
    • PhD Program University of Wisconsin
  • James Sheppard
  • Dhvani Soni
  • Racheal Spurlin
    • PhD Emory University
    • Synthetic Chemist at Corteva Agriscience
  • Sebastian Williams
  • Zachary Zechman

 

REU Students
  • Maria Sorkin
    • PhD Student
      Plant and Microbial Biosciences
      Washington University
  • Valeria C Laboy
    • Pharmacy Student
      University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Tenisha McLean
  • Edmaritz Hernandez Pagan
    • PhD Student (See above!!!!)
      Molecular and Structural Biochemistry 
      North Carolina State University
  • Lexci Wuorenma
  • Robert King
    • PhD Student (See above!!!!)
      Molecular and Structural Biochemistry 
      North Carolina State University
High School Researchers
  • Tomas Pierce
  • Lily Welsh
Visitors
  • Eva Malečková
    • PhD Student
      Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Silmara Correia
  • Denzel dos Santos de Silva
    • SURF program awardee