2005 Ph.D.: the University of California, Riverside
2006-2011 Postdoc: Stanford University
2011-2024 Principle Investigator:
the Waksman institute of Microbiology, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
2024-present Sadie Hatfield Endowed Professor:
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Aobo Huang
Research Interest: Proximity Labeling, light signaling in plant polarized growth
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Xin Qiao
Research Interest: Stomatal pore formation, stomatal morphogenesis
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Shuang Wu
Research Interest: Cell polarity, stomatal asymmetric cell division, kinase activity
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Syeda Roop Fatima Jaffri
Research Interest: Membrane trafficking, cell polarization, hormone signaling
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Jingjing Wang
Research Interest: Cell polarity, hypocotyl development, cell division
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Ziyi Feng
Research Interest: light signaling and cell polarity in plant growth
Ph.D. Candidate
Sanqiang Zhang
Research Interest: Gene regulation, cell fate determination
Research Associate
Jinming Zhang
Research Interest: body-level cell polarity
Research Assistant
Research Assistant - Rachel Joo
Research Interest: body-axes polarity, Marchantia
Research Assistant
Research Assistant - Di Tian
Research Interest: TBD
Undergraduate Researcher
Jili Dai
Spring, 2025; Summer, 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Nayan Elamurugan
Spring, 2025; Summer, 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Paige Gregg
Spring, 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Kirti Ragavan
Spring, 2025