Team

Principal Investigator

Gunvant B. Patil

Research Interest: Molecular Crop Improvement (Genomics and Genome engineering)

Ph.D.: University of Pune and National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, India

Email: gunvant.patil@ttu.edu


Graduate Research Assistants

Arjun Ojha 

Research Interest: Molecular Crop Improvement

MS: West Virginia State University 

Email: arjun.ojha@ttu.edu

Leonidas W. D’Agostino

Research Interest: Plant Genomics

BS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Email: ldagosti@ttu.edu

Micayla Lamb

Research Interest: Plant root biology

Email: miclamb@ttu.edu

Pallavi

Research Interest: Plant Cell Genetics

MS: Panjab Univesity, India

Email: padhiman@ttu.edu


Postdoctoral Scientist

Vikas Devkar

Research Interests: Plant Molecular Biology, Genome Editing

Ph.D.: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany.

Email: vdevkar@ttu.edu

Mallesham Bulle

Research Interests: Genome engineering

Ph.D.: Kakatiya University

Email: mbulle@ttu.edu

Kaushik Gosh

Research Interests: Genome engineering

Ph.D.: University of Calcutta, India

Email: kaushik.ghose@ttu.edu

Gaurav Raturi

Research Interests: Plant-microbe interaction

Ph.D.: Panjab University, India

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Student Assistants

Alumni

Anuradha Dhingra

Research Interests: Molecular genetics, Crop improvement

Ph.D.: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

Current Position: Postdoc (Washington State University)

Durgeshwari Gadpayale

Visiting Student, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Chidinma L. Nwoko (Graduate Research Assistant)

Research Interest: Biotechnology for crop improvement

MS: University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Email: chnwoko@ttu.edu

Jessica Kennedy (Student Assistant)

Dr. Dolores Gutierrez-Alanis (Postdoctoral Scientist)

Varun Kharde (Student Assistant)

Bharath Proreddy (Student Assistant)