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BURGESS, Patrick W.
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Title: Field Development Scientist, Bayer U.S. LLC, Environmental Science Division
Comments: Dr. Burgess is a customer-centric agriculture technology field scientist who builds strong relationships with end-users and academic leaders to identify opportunistic market niches and drive innovation across various market segments. During his time in the Rutgers Plant Biology Graduate Program, he was the lab manager for Dr. Bingru Huang (Plant Physiology), served as a Teaching Assistant for Plant Biology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and was an Instructor in the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School.
BYRNES, David
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Molecular & Cellular Biology
Advisor: James Simon
drbyrnes@rutgers.edu
Foran Hall - 391-A
Tentative Thesis Title: Selection of Vegetable Amaranth for High Yield, Multiple Harvests, High Nutrition and Minimal Antinutritive Components
Research Interests: Crop Improvement, international development, suppy/value chain, post-harvest procedures, new use applications, medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, economics.
CHU, Philomena
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Molecular & Celluar Biology
DONDERALP, Veysel
Degree Sought: Master of Science
Track: Plant Breeding & Genomics
Advisor: Thomas Orton
veysel.donderalp@rutgers.edu
Foran Hall - 204
JESPERSEN, David
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Comments: After receiving his Ph.D. at Rutgers in January of 2016, he started employment in April of 2016 at the University of Georgia, and land-grant university originally founded in 1785. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, researching turfgrass physiology. The focus of his research is to combine whole plant physiology with underlying molecular biology to understand the mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance in grasses.
KENNY, Laura
Degree Sought: Master of Science
Title: Equine Natural Resources Educator, Penn State Extension
Comments: In August 2016, she started as an Equine Natural Resources Educator at Penn State Extension. She is based out of the Montgomery County Extension Office, but have statewide responsibilities with the Equine Team. Her job is to educate horse farm owners about pasture and farm management and encourage environmental stewardship through adoption of best management practices.
MORATH, Shannon
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Plant Pathology
Advisor: Joan Bennett
shannon.morath@rutgers.edu
REICHERT, William
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Plant Breeding & Genomics
Advisor: James Simon
willreic@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Increasing the essential oil yield in Nepeta cataria (catnip) and improving the nepetalactone concentration.
Tentative Thesis Title: Phytochemical exploration into Nepeta cataria
SATCH, Christopher
Degree Sought: Master of Science
Title: Instructor/Director - Plant Science & Education, The Sill, NYC
Comments: He is an instructor at the New York Botanic Gardens (NYBG) and the Director of Plant Science and Education at The Sill, a NYC-based plant company. He graduated from Rutgers University with an MS in Plant Biology and Pathology (Jan '16). He is also on the Board of Trustees for the Manhattan Orchid Society, and volunteers for RAGE, Rutgers Alumni Growers and Exhibitors. He is passionate about botanical education and is working to spread the importance of plants to designers, healthy lifestyle advocates, and mainstream society through marketing as a tool.
SHAO, Wanchen
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Molecular & Cellular Biology
Advisor: Juan Dong
Research Interests: the molecular mechanisms underlying asymmetric cell division (ACD) of plant stem cells, through the investigations in the stomatal development system. The research aims to understand the regulators and genetic pathways in cell polarization, protein trafficking, signal transduction, and cytoskeleton organization in plant ACD, all of which are important topics in plant developmental and cell biology.
WANG, Jianqiao 'Cindy'
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Molecular & Cellular Biology
Advisor: Eric Lam
Cindy.j.wang@rutgers.edu
Tentative Thesis Title: Functional Research of Arabidopsis thaliana Metacaspases
WANG, Jinyu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Track: Horticulture & Plant Technology
Advisor: Bingru Huang
wangjinyu90@yahoo.com
Tentative Thesis Title: Physiological, biochemical and molecular factors associated with heat tolerance in fine fescue species (Festuca ssp.)
XU, Min
Degree Sought: Master of Science
Track: Plant Pathology
Advisor: James White
Tentative Thesis Title: The powdery mildew on rice
ZDEPSKI, Anna Lind
Degree Sought: Ph.D
Track: Molecular & Cellular Biology
Anna.zdepski@rutgers.edu
Office/Lab Location: Waksman Institute
Research Interests: Conducing research in molecular genetics of the diploid strawberry, Fragaria vesca I am developing tools in Python, R, and UNIX to identify SNP markers from next generation dequencing data of her F. vesca mapping population. Thesis research includes creating a genetic map and cloining two genes in diploid strawberry.