Team

Gunvant B. Patil (Assistant Professor)

Ph.D.: University of Pune and National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, India

Email: gunvant.patil@ttu.edu


Graduate Research Assistants

Leonidas W. D’Agostino

Research Interest: Plant Genomics

BS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Email: ldagosti@ttu.edu

Micayla Lamb

Research Interest: Plant root biology

Email: miclamb@ttu.edu

Pallavi

Research Interest: Plant Cell Genetics

MS: Panjab Univesity, India

Email: padhiman@ttu.edu

Vaishnavi Deshmukh

Research Interest: Plant Transformation

MS: Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture

Email: vaishdes@ttu.edu


Postdoctoral Scientist

Arjun Ojha 

Research Interest: Molecular Crop Improvement

Ph. D: Texas Tech University 

Email: arjun.ojha@ttu.edu

Vikas Devkar

Research Interests: Plant Molecular Biology, Genome Editing

Ph.D.: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany.

Email: vdevkar@ttu.edu

Kaushik Gosh

Research Interests: Genome engineering

Ph.D.: University of Calcutta, India

Email: kaushik.ghose@ttu.edu

Wuzi Xie

Research Interests: Plant Transformation

Ph.D.: Texas Tech University

Email: wuzi.xie@ttu.edu

Ramkumar Thakku Rajaram

Research Interests: Plant Transformation

Ph.D.:

Email: rthakkur@ttu.edu

Former Lab Members

Current Positions
Anuradha Dhingra (Postdoc)Washington University (Research Assoc)
Mallesham Bulle (Postdoc)Louisiana State University (Postdoc)
Lois Nwoko (MS Student)Texas Tech University (Ph.D)
Arjun Ojha (Ph D)Texas Tech University (Postdoc)
Gaurav RaturiTexas Tech University (Postdoc)

Visiting Scientists/Researchers

Durgeshwari Gadpayale (PhD Student)Indian Agriculture Research Institute
Rashmi Deo (Postdoc)Savitribai Phule Pune University
Subha Manoharan (BS student)Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
Sandhya Sharma (Scientist)Indian Agriculture Research Institute
Altaf Nadaf (Professor)Savitribai Phule Pune University
Prashant Kawar (Principal Scientist)ICAR-Directorate of Floriculture
Appunnu ChinnaswamyICAR-Sucarcane Breeding Institute