Our lab integrates genome engineering and genomics tools to discover novel traits to improve disease resistance, nutrient uptake, and seed composition and develop high-throughput technologies to improve genetic transformation and gene-editing platforms in recalcitrant crop species.

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Kaushik Ghose

kaushik.ghose@ttu.edu

Genome engineering.

Wuzi Xie

Wuzi.Xie@ttu.edu

Vikas Devkar

vdevkar@ttu.edu

Plant Molecular Biology, Genome Editing.  

Postdoctoral Research Associate

     Arjun Ojha Kshetry

arjun.ojha@ttu.edu   

Molecular Crop Improvement.

Gaurav Raturi

graturi@ttu.edu       

Plant-microbe interaction.

Ramkumar Thakku Rajaram

rthakkur@ttu.edu        

Plant Metabolic Pathway Engineering.

Ph. D. Student

Leonidas d'Agostino

ldagosti@ttu.edu

Micayla Lamb

miclamb@ttu.edu   

   Optimizing root system architecture of cotton cultivars for improving adaptive response to water-deficit stress.

Pallavi 

padhiman@ttu.edu

Understanding the molecular mechanism of sugarcane aphid resistance in Sorghum.   

M. S. Student

Vaishnavi Vilasrao Deshmukh

vaishdes@ttu.edu

Genome Editing in Sorghum bicolor

Student Assistant

Srinivas Duvvala

sduvvala@ttu.edu

 Eric Flores

flo80270@ttu.edu

William Searfass

wsearfas@ttu.edu