PI
James O’Dwyer, 179 Morrill Hall
Current affiliations:
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Plant Biology
Member, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
Director’s Faculty Fellow, Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Former:
Hrdy Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Associate Member, Illinois Center for Advanced Study
Postdoctoral Researchers
Damla Cinoglu
Graduate Students
Shreya Arya (PhD student, Physics)
Grace Garmire (PhD student, Physics)
Joseph Liu (PhD Student, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology)
Visiting Researchers
Current Undergraduate Students
Sylvia Gimbel
Lab Graduate Student and Postdoc Alumni
Kenny Jops (PhD 2025) -> Postdoc, ENS
Zach Miller (Postdoc, 2022-2023) -> Postdoc, Yale University
Vandana Venkataswaran (Postdoc, 2020-2022) -> Staff Scientist, Ford Health Systems
Ashish Bino George (Postdoc, 2020-2023) -> Staff Scientist, Broad Institute
Nicholas Sutton (PhD 2022) -> Postdoc (U Nebraska, Lincoln) -> Faculty (Grinnell, College of William and Mary)
Alice Doucet Beaupré (PhD 2021) -> Postdoc (UQAM)
Stacey Butler (PhD 2018) -> Postdoc (UIUC) -> Teaching
Mario Muscarella (Postdoc, 2016-2019) -> UQAM (Fellowship) -> University of Alaska Fairbanks (Faculty)
Rafael D’Andrea (Postdoc, 2016-2020) -> Stony Brook University (Faculty)
Lab Undergraduate Alumni
Yifan Zhang (2021-2023)
Yichao Guan (2022-2023)
Dianzhuo (John) Wang (2019-2020)
Euphy Wu (undergraduate research, 2017-2018)
Belen Muniz (undergraduate research, 2016)
Zachary Cohen (undergraduate researcher, 2015-2017
Ehitare Emuze (undergraduate researcher 2014)
Arturo Chaidez (undergraduate researcher 2014)
Vanessa Chen (undergraduate researcher 2014)
Ankit Patel (undergraduate researcher 2013-2014)