Lab Directory
Principle Investigator
Dr. Susan R. McCouch
Staff
Jeanne Kisacky, Administrative Assistant to Professor Susan McCouch
Sandy Harrington, Compliance Coordinator
Kazi Akther, Technician
Yuxin Shi, Research Support Specialist
Francisco Agosto-Perez, Applications Programmer
Vishnu Govindaraj, Applications Programmer
Research Associates
Dr. Lyza Maron
Post Doctoral Associates
Giovanni Melandri
Graduate Students
Eliana Monteverde, PhD student, Beachell-Borlaug Fellow
Undergraduate Researchers
Elsa de Becker
Nicholas Karavolias
Visiting Scientists
Dr. Luz Stella Barrero, Corpoica, Colombia
Dr. Shaokui Wang, South China Agricultural University, China
Former RiceLab Members
| Gen (Fumio) Onishi (fo13 at cornell.edu) |
| Ana Rita Rebelo (Boyce Thompson Institute) |
| Dr. Anthony Greenberg (tonyg at bayesicresearch.org) |
| Dr. Namrata (Moni) Singh (namratasingh15 at gmail.com) |
| Dr. Timothy Jobe (University of Cologne, Germany) |
| Juan David Arbelaez (International Rice Research Institute) |
| Ithipong Assaranurak (Cornell University) |
| Hyunjung Kim (University of California, Davis) |
| Jennifer Spindel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
| Diane Ran Wang (Buffalo University) |
| Rongkui Han (former undergraduate researcher) |
| Dr. Yong Gu Cho (former visiting scientist) |
| Dr. Sang-Nag Ahn (former visiting scientist) |
| Dr. Yusaku Uga (former visiting scientist) |
| Genevieve DeClerck (former Bioinformatics Programmer) |
| Dr. Samuel Crowell (Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Research Council) |
| Thiago Salvadori (former Summer Intern) |
| Dr. Mark (Koni) Wright (former Postdoc) |
| Anjali Merchant (Yale Univ graduate program in Microbiology) |
| Dr. Mirza Mofazzal Islam (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA)) |
| Dr. Janelle Jung (Training Center, IRRI, Philippines) |
| Kathryn Blackley (programmer in Expedia Corp.) |
| Cheryl Utter (former Administrative Assistant) |
| Dr. Joshua Cobb (DuPont Pioneer) |
| Maria Carrizales (DeJong lab, Cornell Univ) |
| Dr. Charles Chen (CIMMYT) |
| Dr. A.S. Karthik Karthikeyan (IRRI) |
| Ize Imai (Univ. Penn, Philadelphia, Penn.) |
| Dr. Chih-Wei Tung (National Taiwan University) |
| Adrian Powell |
| Hui Jiang (Brutnell Lab, Danforth Center, St. Louis, Missouri) |
| James Jones Rounds (former Lab Manager) |
| Dr. Adam Famoso (DuPont Pioneer) |
| Lois Swales (former Administrative Assistant) |
| Dr. Noel Yap (formerly Gramene, RiceGenes) |
| Dr. Michael Kovach (Monsanto Corp.) |
| Dr. Luis Maas |
| Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University; formerly Gramene) |
| Dr. Junjian Ni (Syngenta, Durham, N.C.) |
| Mr. Colin Heasley (High school student) |
| Dr. Hsiao-Pei Yang (formerly Gramene) |
| Ms. Betsey Ampolo |
| Mr. Arnaud Germain (ag297 at cornell.edu) |
| Mr. Mamadou Cissoko (University of Sheffield) |
| Ms. Lisa Polewczak (l.polewczak at gmail.com) |
| Dr. Jung Wook Chung |
| Dr. Dean Ravenscroft (dean.ravenscroft at gmail.com) |
| Dr. Lingxia Huang (huanglingxia at yahoo.com) |
| Dr. Megan Sweeney (Bayer Crop Science, Lubbock TX) |
| Dr. Mande Semon, Molecular Biologist-Upland Breeder, WARDA, Benin |
| Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi (Purdue University: Ass't Prof) |
| Dr. Jeremy Edwards, (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Stuttgart, AR) |
| Dr. Michael Thomson (IRRI, Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology) |
| Dr. Endang (Septi) Septiningsih (IRRI, Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology) |
| Dr. Nicolas Polato, (Postdoc, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell Univ) |
| Dr. Amanda Garris (Science writing & editing, Cornell Univ) |
| Dr. Matthew Blair (Tennessee State University) |
| Dr. Edie Paul (GeneFlow Inc.) |
McCouch Lab Group Pictures: Summer 2010
