Current Lab Folks
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To contact any of us:
Plant Transformation Laboratory
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
OARDC/The Ohio State University
1680 Madison Ave.
Wooster, OH 44691 USA
Lab Phone: 330-263-3979
Dept Phone: 330-263-3878
Dept Fax: 330-263-3887


John Finer
Professor

Cheri Nemes
Research Associate
Cheri

Carola De La Torre
Research Assistant II
MS Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University
Carola

Carlos
Hernandez-Garcia
PhD Graduate Student
Working on isolation and characterization of soybean ERF promoters
Carlos

Zhifen Zhang
MS Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University
PhD
Graduate Student
Working on sunflower transformation
and sunflower and soybean promoter characterization
Zhifen

Ning Zhang
MS Silviculture, Bamboo transformation and regeneration,
PhD
Graduate Student
Working on soybean transformation and promoter characterization
Ning

Jessica Schwartz
BS Ag
Engineering, Penn State University
MS Graduate Student
Co-advisor - Leah
McHale
McHale Lab
Jess

Kyle Benzle
MS Graduate Student
BS Horticulture and Crop Science
The Ohio State
University
Working on isolation and disarming of Agrobacterium
for soybean transformation
Kyle