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                                                                                                   TEam TERPENOID @ PLB Retreat 2019


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Philipp Zerbe
Associate Professor
pzerbe@ucdavis.edu
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Bio: After completing my undergraduate and graduate work in Germany and a postdoc at UBC (Vancouver, Canada), I started our lab at UC Davis' Plant Biology Department in August 2014. With my team, I work to better understand how plants produce and utilize the diversity of natural products and how the chemical ingenuity of plants can be harnessed for agricultural and bioproduct applications. Beyond research, I am passionate about fostering interdisciplinary and career-focused student training in the STEM fields. 

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 Katie Murphy
 Graduate Student (PBGG)
kmmurphy@ucdavis.edu

 
 Studying the biosynthesis and biological   function of terpenoids in maize environmental   interactions. 



 

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Anna Cowie
Graduate Student (PBGG)
aecowie@ucdavis.edu


Studying the transcriptional regulation of terpenoid metabolism in maize.


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Mary Madera
Graduate Student (PBGG)
mamadera@ucdavis.edu



Studying fruit flavor metabolism in strawberry.



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Andrew Muchlinski
Postdoc
amuchlinski@ucdavis.edu


Structure-function and engineering of key terpenoid-metabolic enzymes.

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Lisette Arce Rodríguez
Postdoc (UC-MEXUS Fellow)
mlarcerodriguez@ucdavis.edu


Characterizing terpenoid biochemical and regulatory pathways in switchgrass and maize.

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Kira Tiedge
Postdoc (DFG Fellow)
kjtiedge@ucdavis.edu


Studying the role of terpenoids in plant-environment interactions in switchgrass.

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Janet Solano-Sanchez
Junior Specialist | Lab manager
jsolanosanchez@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism and bioactivity in maize.


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Lisl Chew
Undergraduate student
lchew@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism and bioactivity in maize and switchgrass.


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Danielle Davisson
Undergraduate student
dldavisson@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism and bioactivity in maize and switchgrass.




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Yuxuan Chen
Undergraduate student
xuachen@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism and bioactivity in maize and switchgrass.


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Megumi Gutleben
Undergraduate student
mcgutleben@ucdavis.edu


Studying the structure and function of terpenoid-metabolic enzymes.


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Chelsea Barrett
Undergraduate student
clbarrett@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism in maize and microbial production of plant terpenoids.



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Ramya Chandrasekaran
Undergraduate student
rchandrasekaran@ucdavis.edu


Studying terpenoid metabolism and bioactivity in switchgrass.
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Adam Clapp
Undergraduate student
abclapp@csus.edu


Discovery and engineering of taxol biosynthesis. 

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Ajani Lydia Torres-Cedillo
Undergraduate student
atorrescedillo@csus.edu


Characterizing plant P450 enzymes.


Alumni

Jose Angel Arce - Undergraduate Student (now Junior Specialist at UC Davis)
Prema Karunanithi - Graduate Student (Now Research Scientist at Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis, MO)
Hana Minsky - Undergraduate Student (now Clinical Research Assistant at UC Davis Health)
Liber McKee - Undergraduate Student
Marleny Ramos - Undergraduate student
​Shruti Fogla - Undergraduate student
David Berrios - Undergraduate student (now Junior Specialist at UCSF)
​Meirong Jia - Postdoc
​Lynne Hagelthorn - Undergraduate student (now Junior Specialist at the Sundaresan lab, UC Davis)
Cari Young - Undergraduate student (now graduate student at City of Hope)
Kyle Pelot - Graduate student (now Research Scientist at Aether Inc.)
Sadira Wang - Undergraduate student (now Masters student at City of Hope)
Siwon Chung - Undergraduate student (now Junior Specialist at theUC Davis Medical Scool, Xiang lab)
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Karen Zhu - Undergraduate student (now Research Associate)
Ivan Munkres - Undergarduate student (now Junior Specialist at the Vanette lab, UC Davis)
Sibongile Mafu - Postdoc (Now faculty at University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Puja Dhanota - Undergraduate student (now Research Associate at Arcus Biosciences, San Francisco, CA)
Omar Yaacoobi - Undergraduate student
Iris Mollhoff - Undergraduate student (now graduate student at Stanford University)
Lynda Flores-Graham - Master student (now Laboratory Assistant at Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, CA)

Ruibing Chen - Visiting Graduate student, China (now lectures at Secondary Military Medical University, Shanghai, China)
Jimmy Chen - Visiting Master student, Taiwan (now graduate student at the University of Georgia)
Li-Ting Ma - Visiting graduate student, Taiwan (now graduate student at National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Emil Fischer - Undergraduate student (now graduate student at SCRIPPS Institute)
Ana Claudia da Silveira - Visiting undergraduate student, Brazil (now research scientist at 
Farmacêutica, Brazil)
Isabel Ribeiro Barbosa - Visiting undergraduate student, Brazil
Selina Rodriguez - Junior Specialist (now research scientist at Miraculex, Davis CA)
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