Current Lab Members:
Imtiyaz Khanday, Ph. D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Plant Reproductive Biology
Director of Research for Seed Biotechnology Center
Reagan Reed
Graduate student, Plant Biology Graduate Group
Projects: Seed vigor and synthetic apomixis
Arnaldo Rios-Cruz
Graduate student, Plant Biology Graduate Group
Project: Seed development in rice
Terryn L Hutching
Graduate student, Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group
Project: Engineering Synthetic Apomixis for Clonal Seed Propagation of Potato
Rasheeba Iqbal
Graduate student, Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group
Project: Engineering synthetic apomixis
Supriya Saripella
Graduate student, Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group
Project: Tomato seed vigor
Venicius Reis
Graduate student, Federal University of Lavras - Brazil
Project: Physiology of respiration of treated maize seeds with neonicotinoid after storage
Celso Ramirez
Research Technician
Project: Tomato seed vigor
Revathi Ponnuswamy, Ph.D.
Fulbright Visiting Faculty - India
Project: Climate smart rice hybrids and their clonal propagation by Synthetic Apomixis
Wajhat Un Nisa Lnu, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow
Project: Synthetic Apomixis for Clonal Seed Production in Potato
Current Undergraduate Students:
Nicole He, Major: Global Disease Biology
Jayen Chahal
Olivia Chilelly
Former Lab Members:
Maria de la Paz Fraile Reyes, MS
Graduate student, MS
Rasim Unan, Ph. D.
Visiting scientist from Türkiye
Reyazul Rouf Mir, Ph. D.
Associate professor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology - Kashmir
Amanda Lima Vilela, Ph. D.
Visiting graduate student, Federal University of Lavras - Brazil
Nadia Bostan
Visiting graduate student, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar - Pakistan
Faryal Ali
Visiting graduate student, University of Agriculture Faisalabad - Pakistan
Nida Tahir
Visiting graduate student - Pakistan