Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Program Manager

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Associate

Research Associate

Research Associate

PhD Student

PhD student

Chloee McLaughlin

Visiting Scholar

from Hudson Alpha 

Pangenome Biologist

Lab Alumni

Portia Osei-Obeng

Visiting Scholar

Currently: PhD Student - KSU

Temitope Olatunde

Visiting Scholar

Currently: PhD Student - KSU

Undergraduate Researcher

Currently: 

Clara María Cruet Burgos 

PhD Student

Currently: Postdoc Fellow - Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI)


Ariel Lepard

MS Student

Currently: Research Technician - National Renewal Energy Lab (NREL)

Elfadil Bashir

Postdoctoral Scientist

Currently: Research Scientist - Heartland Plant Innovations (HPI)

Ghislain Kanfany

Borlaug Fellow

Currently: Pearl millet breeder at Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles, Dakar, Senegal

Jacob Easley

Undergraduate Researcher


Currently: EDM Producer - Denver, CO

Tory Bach

REEU Student and Undergraduate Researcher

Currently: Associate Food Scientist - Hostess Brands LLC

Former Undergraduate Researchers

Erin Simpson

Jacob Easley

Tory Bach

Kimberly Sheridan

Logan Whetzel

Abigail Weast