PEOPLE

Our talented and hard-working people

that bring bright ideas into life

Principal Investigator (PI)

IOANNIS STERGIOPOULOS, PhD (Full CV)

2017 – present: Associate Professor, University of California Davis, Department of Plant Pathology, USA

2012 – 2017: Assistant Professor, University of California Davis, Department of Plant Pathology, USA

2011: Research Associate, Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, TN, USA

2009 – 2011: Post-doctoral research fellow, CBSG2012 (Centre for Biosystems Genomics), Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2006 – 2009: Post-doctoral research fellow, ERA-NET, Plant Genomics (ERA-PG), Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2005 – 2006: Post-doctoral research fellow, EU-Research Training Network (RTN), Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2003 - 2004: Military Service, Field Artillery, 193-194 MLRS Battalions, Greece

1998 - 2003: PhD, Plant Sciences, EU Marie Curie fellow, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

1992 - 1997: B.S./M.S., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture and Forestry, Greece

Post-doctoral fellows

JONATHAN NIÑO SÁNCHEZ, PhD

2016: Ph.D. Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Spain.
2011: M.S. Agrobiotechnology, University of Salamanca, Spain.
2013: B.S. Biochemistry, University of Salamanca, Spain.

2009: B.S. Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology, University of Salamanca, Spain.

ADAM TARANTO

2017: Ph.D. Bioinformatics & Plant Microbe Interactions, The Australian National University, Canberra.
2010: Advanced B.S. Biological Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
2009: B.S. Botany and microbiology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Graduate students

LI-HUNG CHEN, M.S.

2006 – 2008: M.S., Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

2001 – 2006: B.S., Agriculture and Agronomy, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

SANDRA MOSQUERA LOPEZ, M.S. (jointly with the Leveau lab)

2009 – 2013: M.S., Biotechnology, National University of Colombia, Colombia

2002 – 2007: B.S., Chemical Process Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin - Colombia

GUY ROBINSON.

2014 – 2018: B.S. in Viticultre and Enology, UC Davis, USA

QUE VAN HUYHN

2012 – 2017 B.S. in Biotechnology, UC Davis, USA

Undergraduate students

ALENA SCHROEDER

2018 – present: B.S. in Global Disease Biology, UC Davis, USA

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Gone but not forgotten (Lab Alumni)

Jim LINCOLN, PhD (Research Associate 2013)
Stephen BOLUS (Graduate Student 2012-2013)
Lorna THAI (Undergraduate Assistnat 2014)
Francis ONYLIO (Visiting Scholar 2014)
Alyssa GIMENEZ (High-School Intern 2014, Regional Occupational Program (ROP)
Amanda KOHLER, PhD (Post-doctoral Fellow 2013-2015. Currently Research Fellow at Joint BioEnergy Institute (DOE), Emeryville, CA)
Ti-Cheng CHANG, PhD (Post-doctoral Fellow 2013-2015. Currently Bioinformatics Scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN)
Anthony Salvucci, MSc (Research Associate 2013-2016. Currently Resercah Associate at UC Davis)
Juliane GOUVEA SILVA (Undergraduate Assistant 2016)
Jasmine WILLIAMS (Undergraduate Assistant 2016)
Matthew SOEHERMAN (Undergraduate Assistant 2016)
Dhivyaa RAJASUNDARAM, PhD (Post-doctoral fellow 2016-2017)
Mia GOINGS, (Undergraduate Assistant 201-2018)