Lab Directory
Principle Investigator
Dr. Susan R. McCouch
Staff
Jeanne Kisacky, Administrative Assistant to Professor Susan McCouch
Sandy Harrington, Compliance Coordinator
Kazi Akther, Technician
Gen (Fumio) Onishi, Greenhouse Technician
Yuxin Shi, Bioinformatics Programmer
Ana Rita Rebelo, Technician
Research Associates
Dr. Anthony Greenberg
Dr. Lyza Maron
Post Doctoral Associates
Dr. Namrata (Moni) Singh, NSFTV Rice Diversity Project
Dr. Timothy Jobe
Graduate Students
Juan David Arbelaez, PhD student, Beachell-Borlaug Fellow
Ithipong Assaranurak, PhD student
Eliana Monteverde, PhD student, Beachell-Borlaug Fellow
Hyunjung Kim, PhD student, NSFTV Rice Diversity Project
Jennifer Spindel, PhD student, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Diane Ran Wang, PhD student, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Undergraduate Researchers
Rongkui Han, Laboratory Technician
Visiting Scientists
Dr. Yong Gu Cho, Chungbuk National University
Dr. Sang-Nag Ahn, Chungnam National University
Dr. Yusaku Uga, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Former RiceLab Members
| 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
