Arne Scheu

Ms Student

Bo Li

Postdoctoral Fellow​

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Anion Transport, Plant molecular biology

Clara Stanschewski

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Plant genetics, Plant Phenotyping, Genome-Wide Association studies, Genotype x environment interactions, Plant domestication, Climate change

Damien Lightfoot

Research Scientist​​

Research Interests: Plant molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Plant physiology, Genomics

David Jarvis

Post-doctoral fellow ​

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Adaptation, Genomics, Biotechnology

Dinara Utarbayeva

Greenhouse Technician

Research Interests: Crossing, grafting tomatoes, germination and propagating coarctata rice

Dongryung Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance

Elodie Rey

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Crops, Genomics, Transcriptomic, polyploidy, Domestication, stress resillience

Eunje Kim

Masters Student

Fangfang Wu

Lab Technician

Fouad Lemtiri-Chlieh

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Electrophysiology, Sodium transport, Signal transduction pathways

Ge Gao

PhD Student

Gordon Wellman

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Plant Abiotic stress tolerance, Transcriptomic, Genome sequencing, Salinity, Biotechnology

Hana Kanee

Ms Student

Hongwei Ren

Greenhouse Technician

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, tomato

Jyoti Dubey

Greenhouse Technician

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Applied molecular and cellular biology, Plant molecular biology

Khadija Zemmouri

Greenhouse Technician​

Lijun Li

Greenhouse Technician​

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance

Lila Ali Aldakheel

Greenhouse Technician

Magdalena Julkowska

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Root architecture, Plant Architecture, High throughput phenotyping

Mashael D. Alqahtani

PhD Student

Research Interests: Plant physiology, Genetic engineering, Molecular biology

Mitchell Morton

PhD Student

Research Interests: Plant physiology, Salinity tolerance, Plant genetics, Molecular biology, Crop improvement, Salinity tolerance in tomato plants, Wild relatives of tomato, Galapagos tomatoes

Moonsun Hwang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Molecular biology, Biochemistry

Nadia Al-Tamimi

PhD Student

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Molecular biology, Plant genomics

Nathaly Ortiz

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Grafting, salinity tolerance, tomatoes, polyploids

Nouf Alshareef

Research Interests: Abiotic Stress, Salt Stress, Heat Stress, Transcription Factors, Gene Regulatory Network

Octavio Salazar

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Halophytes, Tissue Tolerance, Saponins

Rameesha M. Parambil

​Lab Technician at the Salt Lab

Rita Bartossek

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Biotechnology, metagenomics as tool for analysis of novel enzymes of complex communities, microbial ecology, comparative genomics, next generation sequencing, adaptation to extreme environments in plants

Ryan Lefers

Agriculture Engineer

Research Interests: Food/water/energy nexus, controlled environment agriculture, saltwater-based agriculture, aquaponics, horticulture lighting, circular agriculture systems

Sandra Schmöckel

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Ion transport, Crop science, Barley, Plant Science

Shawkat Ali

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Signalling, Genetic engineering

Shireen Hammoud

Lab Technician

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance

Sonia Negrao

Research Scientist

Sundus Bukhari

Lab Technician

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance

Vanessa Melino

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Plant physiology, Plant nutrition, Salinity tolerance, Root architecture, Ion transport

Yong Woo

Research Scientist

Yung Shwen Ho

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Plant genomics, Bioinformatics, Big Data Visualization, Computational Biology