Alumni

Postdoctoral Scientists

Name Year Current position
Christopher DeFraia (Pelotonia Cancer Research Fellow) 2010-2013 Professor of Biological Sciences at Ferris State University
Germán Martinez-Arías (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow) 2011-2015 Faculty Lecturer (research position) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Josquin Daron 2015-2017 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, MIVEGEC laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montpellier France
Andrea McCue 2017-2021 Scientist at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio
Saima Shahid (Life Science Research Foundation Fellow) 2017-2022 Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Evolution at Oklahoma State University
Kaushik Panda 2018-2023 Scientist at Bayer Crop Science

Graduate Students

Name Year Current position
Saivageethi Nuthikattu (Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics) 2010-2014 Postdoc with Amparo Villablanca at UC Davis
Andrea McCue (Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics), Presidential Research Fellowship, Center for RNA Biology Fellowship, University Fellowship 2010-2015 Postdoc at NIH with Shiv Grewal (2015-2017). Returned as a Postdoc to the Slotkin lab in 2017
Dalen Fultz (Ohio State MCDB Interdisciplinary Graduate Program), Presidential Research Fellowship, Cellular, Molecular & Biochemical Sciences (CMBP) Training Grant Fellow 2012-2017 Postdoc with Craig Pikaard, University of Indiana/HHMI
Kaushik Panda (Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics), Presidential Research Fellowship 2012-2017 Postdoc in the Slotkin lab
Sarah Choudury (Ohio State MCDB Interdisciplinary Graduate Program), Cellular, Molecular & Biochemical Sciences (CMBP) Training Grant Fellow, Center for RNA Biology Fellowship 2014-2018 Postdoc in Aman Husbands’ laboratory at Ohio State / University of Pennsylvania
Meredith Sigman (Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics), Cellular, Molecular & Biochemical Sciences (CMBP) Training Grant Fellow, Ohio State University Fellowship 2014-2021 Research Scientist at Bayer Crop Science
Diego Cuerda-Gil (Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics), CONACyT Fellowship from Mexico, William H. Danforth Plant Science Fellow 2016-2021 Research Scientist at Bayer Crop Science

Undergraduate Students

Name Year Current position
Jennifer Bosse 2010-2011 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics
James Stock 2011-2012 Graduated from Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics, Honors College
Erica Thomas, ASPB Summer Research Fellowship recipient 2011-2014 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics. Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis
Jeff Kovach, ASPB Summer Research Fellowship recipient 2014-2015 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics. M.S. in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology from Michigan State University
Eric Roose 2012-2016 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics. Currently in the M.D. program at Case Western Reserve
Alissa Cullen 2014-2017 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics. Currently in the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. program at Washington University
Eli Guidry 2016-2016 Graduated from Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics, Honors College
Elaine Louden 2016-2017 Graduated from Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics, Honors College
Ben Smith 2017-2018 Graduated from Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics, Honors College
Phillip Woolley, Danforth Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program 2019 University of Texas-Austin
Rachel Kirchner 2017-2020 Graduated Honors Research Distinction from the Ohio State Department of Molecular Genetics. Currently in the M.D./Ph.D. program at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eric Wang, Danforth Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program 2022 Wake Forest University
Harper Lowrey, Danforth Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program 2022 Yale University
Tayahna Agtarap, Danforth Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program 2023 California State University at Long Beach

Lab Staff

Name Year Current position
Amy Gottesman 2009 Owner of My Sweet One Baking
John Patton 2009-2010 Completed his M.D./Ph.D. at Ohio State
Sarah Reeder 2010-2013 Lab manager in the Dobritsa pollen lab at Ohio State
Parker Messerli 2018-2019  
Kim Maxson-Stein 2018-2019  
Hayden Payne 2019-2021 Graduate student in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona
Lauren McLain 2019-2022 Researcher at Bayer Crop Science

Lab pictures from each year

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