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

       

Jammi McClead

 
     

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Research Associate

 

Jammi has a masters degree in biochemistry from Utah State University. 

 

 

email:  mcclead.7@osu.edu

       

Zejun Huang

 
       

 

Post Doctoral Researcher

Zejun graduated from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.  He is working on fine mapping of fruit weight loci.

 

email:  huang.578@osu.edu

       

Manohar Chakrabarti

 
         

Post Doctoral Researcher

Manohar is a native of India and received his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 2010. He joined the lab in April, 2010 and is currently involved in the functional characterization of fruit weight and fruit shape genes.

email: chakrabarti.11@osu.edu

 

     

Hyunjung Kim

 
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Post Doctoral Researcher

Hyunjung received her Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 2010.  She is currently working on fine mapping the suppressors and enhancers of OVATE. 

email: kim.2295@osu.edu

 

   

Na Zhang

 
   

 

PhD Student

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

email: zhang.605@osu.edu

   

Antonio Cabrera

 
   

PhD 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 Student

Shan obtained her Bachelor's degree from China Agricultural University in 2007, and her Master's degree from OSU in 2009. She is interested in developmental study of fruit shape genes, including the ones controlling elongated and obovoid shape.

email: wu.595@osu.edu

     

Josh Clevenger

 
       

 

Masters Student

Josh graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in 2009 with a BS in Biology and Philosophy.  He is working on making different fruit shape Near Isogenic Lines (NILs) in the S. pimpinellifolium background.  He is also analyzing the metabolite profiles of SUN NILs.

email: clevenger.88@osu.edu

 

        Jason van Houten  
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Research Assistant

Jason graduated from the College of Wooster in 2011.

 

email: jvanhouten11@gmail.com

Garrett Jentes
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Undergraduate Researcher

Garrett is currently a freshman at the College of Wooster.

 

email:

Sofia Visa
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Collaborator / Visiting Professor

 

Sofia is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the College of Wooster and in our lab.  While here she has implemented a pipeline for handling and analyzing large luminex data sets.

 

 

email: SVisa@Wooster.edu

 



Past Lab Members
       

Gustavo Rodríguez

 
 

 

 

 

Post Doctoral Researcher

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

email: rodriguez.313@osu.edu

   

Reynaldo Nuñez Salazar

 

Visiting Scholar

 

Reynaldo obtained his Master's degree in Peru and worked on the Interspecific Reproductive Barrier project in collaboration with Colorado State University

 

 

email:nunez.t1@osu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 Ning Liu

 
     

Post Doctoral Researcher

Ning obtained his Ph.D in Genetics from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and focused on uncovering the molecular mechanism of SUN in tomato fruit shape development while working in the lab.

email: liu.1210@osu.edu

   

 Jaymie Strecker

 

Systems Developer

Jaymie worked to develope a new version of Tomato Analyzer Software

email: strecker@cs.umd.edu

   
   

Han Xiao

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

Han moved to Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology in China

email: hanxiao@sippe.ac.cn

   
   

Marin Talbot Brewer

 
     

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

email: mtb46@cornell.edu

 

 

 

   
   

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.

 

email: mjgonzalo@eead.csic.es

 
   

Rhiannon Schneider

 
   

 

Undergraduate Intern

 

Graduated from the ATI with honors in June 2010. Transferred to the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences, majoring in crop science with a  minor in biochemistry. While here she helped grad students with research projects, maintained the tomatoes in the greenhouse, and  performed various lab procedures.

 

email:schneider.541@buckeyemail.osu.edu

 

 
   

Andy Young

 
   

 

2010 Summer Internship from College of Wooster

 

email:ayoung13@wooster.edu

 

 

Sarah McNulty

Undergraduate Intern

 

 

Scott Wolfe





Research Assistant

Scott got his bachelors at Hiram College and is currently working on his masters at OSU.

email: wolfe.529@osu.edu

 

Claire Anderson

Undergraduate Researcher



Geoffrey Gonzalez

Visiting Scholar

 

 

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