Team

Principal Investigators

Dr. Bing Yang


Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres


Dr. Wolf B. Frommer


Dr. Thomas Girke


Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Matthew Prior


  • Bailey-Serres group
  • Email: mprior@ucr.edu

Dr. Elaine Yeung


  • Bailey-Serres group
  • Email: eyeun001@ucr.edu

Dr. Jiyun Kim


  • Frommer group
  • Email: jiyun.kim@hhu.de

Graduate Students

Jianhai Zhang


  • Girke group
  • Email: jzhan067@ucr.edu

Alek Kettenburg


  • Bailey-Serres group
  • Graduate Student, Plant Biology

Alek is investigate on carbohydrate transport and secretion in rice roots during abiotic stress events with PD Yeung and PD Prior.

Alex Borowsky


  • Bailey-Serres group
  • Graduate Student, Plant Biology

Network analysis, suberin secretion.

Undergraduate and High School Students

Isabelle Do


  • Bailey-Serres Group,
  • Martin Luther King Jr. High School
  • Isabelle has helped characterize high priority single target genes in rice for the SECRETome with PD Elaine Yeung and PD Matt Prior.

Oscar Gomez


  • Bailey-Serres Group,
  • UCR undergraduate
  • Oscar has been assisting in TRAP, GUS staining of rice Secretome lines, and single gene characterization with PD Matt Prior.

Alexandra Vacaru


  • Bailey-Serres Group,
  • UCR Honors Student, first generation American.
  • Alexandra has helped characterize high priority single target genes in rice for the SECRETome with PD Matt Prior.