People

Krishna Niyogi

Principal Investigator
niyogi@berkeley.edu

Krishna Niyogi's long-term research goals are to understand how photosynthetic energy conversion works, how it is regulated, and how it might be improved to help meet the world’s needs for food, fuel, and carbon sequestration to fight climate change. Current lab members use a wide array of experimental organisms and interdisciplinary approaches to (1) investigate fundamental questions about the regulation of photosynthesis, (2) elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying the operation of the oceanic biological carbon pump, and (3) apply this fundamental knowledge to increase photosynthetic efficiency and carbon sequestration by plants and algae.

Lab Manager and Senior Scientists

Marilyn Kobayashi

Lab Manager kobayashi@berkeley.edu

Masakazu Iwai

Research Scientist
miwai@berkeley.edu

Setsuko Wakao

Research Scientist swakao@berkeley.edu

Melissa Roth

Associate Researcher
melissasroth@gmail.com

Graduate Students

Tonio Chaparro

Graduate Student chaparro@berkeley.edu

Karina Cunningham

Graduate Student
kwc9554@berkeley.edu

Efrén González

Graduate Student efren_gonzalez@berkeley.edu

Armen Kelikian

Graduate Student
akelikian@berkeley.edu

Erin NewRingeisen

Graduate Student erin_newringeisen@berkeley.edu

Lauren Owens

Graduate Student
laurenowens@berkeley.edu

Raquel Ponce

Graduate Student rponce@berkeley.edu

Priyati Sharma

Graduate Student
priyati@berkeley.edu

Flora Wang

Graduate Student
florazhiqiwang@berkeley.edu

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ethan Boynton

Postdoctoral Fellow
ethanboynton@berkeley.edu

Jeffrey Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow
jeffachen21@berkeley.edu

Shi-Wei (Derrick) Chuang

Postdoctoral Fellow swchuang@berkeley.edu

Amala John

Postdoctoral Fellow
amalaj@berkeley.edu

Radhika Khera

Postdoctoral Fellow rakhera@berkeley.edu

Srikanth Tirumani

Postdoctoral Fellow
tirumani@berkeley.edu

Shivani Upadhyaya

Postdoctoral Fellow
shivani.u@berkeley.edu

Donat Wulf

Postdoctoral Fellow donat.wulf@berkeley.edu

Alice Carle

Visiting Scholar
acarle22@berkeley.edu

Lab Staff

Ezekiel Lam

Research Staff
zekelam25@berkeley.edu

Stephanie Nuñez

Research Staff
snunez@berkeley.edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Alondra Alonzo

Sophie Baran

Mateo Delgado

Aldo Espino

Lauren Jung

Madison Lee

Alison Hipple

Ella Shen-Hui Liu

Shakira Maxamed

Lily Nagai

Reann Yuki Rey

Logan Rheault

Joyce Ro

Ginni Son

Mia Soon Sweeny

Gabriela Trinidad

Ivy Yoshihara

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