Lab Members
Lab members from left to right: John Schiefelbein, Aaron Sluis, Nichole McCaffrey, Christa Barron, Yana Wieckowski, Su-Hwan Kwak, Tina Guan

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Former Lab Members

Myeong Min Lee
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Myeong Min earned a B.S. and a Ph.D in Biology from Yansei University, Korea. Myeong Min's postdoctoral research was focused on the role of WEREWOLF and other MYB transcription factors in epidermal cell patterning. Myeong Min is currently a faculty member at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
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Pious Thomas pioust@umich.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Pious received a B.S. in Horticulture form Kerala University and a Ph.D in Horticulture from Indian Agricultural Research Institute. He studied the initiation of root development in grape cuttings.
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Marissa Simon mksimon@umich.edu
Ph.D. Student

Marissa joined the lab in 2000 after earning a B.S. in Plant Biology from the University of California, Davis. She characterized new regulators of root epidermal call specification, including the family of CPC-related one-repeat Myb proteins. .
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Yan Lin linyan@umich.edu
Ph.D. Student

Yan earned a B.S. in Biology from Beijing Normal University. She has studied the expression and function of the GLABRA2 gene in root development.
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Ronglai Shen rlshen@umich.edu
Ph.D. Student

Ronglai received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Fudan University. She joined the lab in 2000 and studied the role of a new gene required for epidermal patterning.
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Christine Bernhardt cbernhar@umich.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Christine joined the lab in 1999, after earning a B.S. in Biology from Technical University of Darmstadt, and a Ph.D in Plant Pathology from University of Gottingen, Germany. Christine's research focused on the basic helix-loop-helix proteins that participate in root epidermis development.
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Amy Riley arriley@umich.edu
Undergraduate Researcher

Amy earned a B.S in Cell & Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan. She studied several new genes associated with epidermal cell fate.
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