Current members of the lab
- Jason Stajich, Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology & Microbiology
- Brad Cavinder, Postdoc scholar working on transposable elements in mosquitoes and fungi
- Peng Liu, Postdoc scholar working on cell wall genes in B. dendrobatidis
- Sofia Robb, Postdoc scholar working on Rice transposable elements
- Divya Sain, PhD Student, Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics working on cell wall biosynthesis in fungi.
- Yizhou Wang, PhD student in Plant Biology working on transposon silencing in Neurospora crassa and rice
- Stephen Ahrendt, PhD student in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics working on light sensing in early diverging fungi and metagenomics of the built indoor environment
- Raghuraman Ramamurthy, FungiDB Programmer
- Edward Liaw, FungiDB Programmer
- Dai “Greg” Gu, FungiDB Programmer
- Sapphire Ear, UCR Undergraduate
- Erum Khan, UCR Undergraduate
- Carlos Rojas, UCR Undergraduate
- Megna Tiwari, UCR Undergraduate
- Anastasia Gioti, Visiting researcher
Former Members & Visitors
- Daniel Borcherding, FungiDB Programmer
- John Abramyan, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Yi (Zoe) Zhou, MS Student, Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics
- Edgar Medina Tovar, visiting student, currently at Duke University
- Jessica De Anda, UCR Undergraduate and MARC U* STAR student
- Annie Nguyen, UCR Undergraduate
- Lorena Rivera, UCR Undergraduate
- Anastasia Gioti (Johannesson lab) (Visitor in Spring 2010 & 2011, Fall 2012)
- Suzanne Joneson (Rosenblum lab) (Visitor in Spring 2010)
Collaborators (Projects)
- Tim James (Chytrid genomics & Bd)
- Erica Bree Rosenblum, Suzanne Joneson (Bd population genomics and pathogenesis)
- David Roos and EuPathDB team (FungiDB)
- Bret Tyler (Oomycetes in FungiDB)
- Katherine Borkovich (Neurospora)
- Gavin Sherlock, Diane Inglis (Cryptococcus in FungiDB)
- Susan Wessler (Rice TE; Mosquito TEs)
- Peter Atkinson (Mosquito TEs)
- Hanna Johannesson, Anastasia Gioti (Genomics & evolution of reproductive systems in Neurospora)
- Eric Selker (Neurospora)
- Folker Meyer; Mitch Sogin; Rob Knight (Sloan IE, MoBeDAC)
- Noah Fierer, Scott Bates (Fungal ITS)
- Michael Freitag, Kristina Smith (Neurospora)
- Joey Spatafora (1000 Fungal genomes)
- Greg Jedd; David Hewitt (Neolecta, evolution fungal multicellularity)
- Ulrich Mueller
- Minou Nowrousian (Sordaria, Pyronema)
- Pat Pukkila (Coprinopsis)
- Isgouhi Kaloshian; Thomas Eulgem (Plant defense & WRKY family)
- Matthew Sachs (Neurospora)
Please contact Jason if you are interested in opportunities in the lab to work on Fungal evolution at the interface of experimental and computational approaches. There are openings for postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
