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

Micayla Lamb

Research Interest: Plant root biology

Email: miclamb@ttu.edu

Pallavi

Research Interest: Plant Cell Genetics

MS: Panjab University, India

Email: padhiman@ttu.edu

Vaishnavi Deshmukh

Research Interest: Plant Transformation

MS: Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture

Email: vaishdes@ttu.edu

Sowmya Navara

Research Interest: Plant root development

Email: snarava@ttu.edu


Postdoctoral Scientist

Kaushik Gosh

Research Interests: Genome engineering

Ph.D.: University of Calcutta, India

Email: kaushik.ghose@ttu.edu

Leonidas W. D’Agostino

Research Interest: Plant Genomics

Ph D: Texas Tech University

Email: ldagosti@ttu.edu

Wuzi Xie

Research Interests: Plant Transformation

Ph.D.: Texas Tech University

Email: wuzi.xie@ttu.edu

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Ray Singh Rathore

Research Interests: Functional Genomics

Ph.D.: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Email: rrathore@ttu.edu

Former Lab Members

Name (Position at Patil Lab)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)University of California LA (Postdoc)
Gaurav Raturi (Postdoc)Texas Tech University (Postdoc)
Vikas Devkar (Postdoc)Assistant Professor, India
Ramkumar Thakku (Postdoc)Texas 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 Chinnaswamy (Principal Sci.)ICAR-Sucarcane Breeding Institute