Esther van der Knaap

Principal Investigator

 

 

204A Williams Hall

Phone:  330-263-3822

Fax:  330-263-3822

email:  vanderknaap.1@osu.edu

 

 

 

Jenny Moyseenko

Research Associate

 

Jenny has a masters degree in plant pathology from The Ohio State University.  She works on one of the tomato mapping populations, and organizes our greenhouse and field experiments.

 

 

email:  moyseenko.2@osu.edu

 

Han Xiao

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Han graduated from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.  He is working on cloning the fruit shape gene SUN, and is conducting a large microarray experiment to identify differentially expressed genes downstream from SUN.

 

email:  xiao.41@osu.edu

   

Gustavo Rodriguez

   

Post doc

Gustavo finished his PhD in 2007 at Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. In our laboratory, he is working on  fine mapping of fruit shape loci.

email: rodriguez.313@osu.edu

       
       

Na Zhang

PhD student

Na graduated with an MS from China Agricultural University and is working towards finemapping tomato fruit morphology loci.

email: zhang.605@osu.edu

Antonio Cabrera

Masters student

Tono graduated from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Peru and is working on the cherry fruit quality project in collaboration with Michigan State University.

email: cabrera.16@osu.edu

    Shan Wu
   

PhD graduate student

Shan graduated from China Agricultural University and joined our lab in Autumn of 2007.

email: wu.595@osu.edu

       
       
Geoffrey Gonzalez

Visiting scholar

Geoffrey graduated from Universidad Nacional de Trujillo in Peru. He worked a few years at CIP after which he joined our laboratory. He is working on the mapping of fruit shape candidate genes.

email: gonzalez.248@osu.edu

Sarah McNulty

Undergraduate intern

Sarah has a BS degree in Botany from Kent State and is currently  at ATI in the laboratory science and environmental resource management programs. She is working on mapping fruit shape QTL in tomato.

email: mcnulty.44@osu.edu

       
Lauren Rackoff

Undergraduate researcher

Lauren is a biochemistry major at the College of Wooster. She works on the protein expression of putative fruit shape genes.

email: lrackoff08@wooster.edu

David Sullivan

Undergraduate researcher

David is a computer science major at the College of Wooster. He works on improving and adding new features to Tomato Analyzer.

email: dsullivan08@wooster.edu

Claire Anderson

Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

Claire is using the Tomato Analyzer program to study fruit shape in tomato. She is a biology major at Kenyon College.

 

 

email: ander_claire@yahoo.com

 

       
       
Zhenwen Zhang

Visitor

Zhenwen graduated with a BS from China Agricultural University  and is taking care of our plants in the greenhouse.

email: zzw0935@yahoo.com.cn

Past Lab Members
Marin Talbot Brewer

Marin moved to Ithaca and is a graduate student at Cornell University

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nic Welty

Nic finished his Masters in January 2007

 

 

 

Maria Jose Gonzalo

Maria Jose is conducting research on Prunus and other exciting plants in Zaragoza, Spain.

 

 

 

Gloria Iriarte

Gloria is working in Plant Pathology at OSU.

 

 

 

 

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