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Current Members

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Associate Professor

Cancer and Genetics Research Complex, Room

wangjp@ufl.edu | 352-273-8104

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Ali Razzaq

Ph.D. Student

Projects: 

- Cas9-mediated genome editing to achieve high seed oil content in peanut. 

- EMS-mediated mutagenesis to produce A.niger resistant peanut lines.

- Transgenerational epi-mutagensis analysis via whole genome bisulfite sequencing

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 Sandaru Malaweera

Master's Student

Projects: 

RNA-Seq Analysis to explore heat-stress related genes in peanut.

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Camila Sanchez

Research Assistant

Projects

Functional validation of hub genes with high trait correlation from In-Silico WGCNA via Cas9-editing.

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Katrina Ni

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects:

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Valentina Palacios

Undergraduate Research assistant

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Victor Chen

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects:

Functional validation of nodulation-related genes via cas9 editing. 

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Lab Manager

Cancer and Genetics Research Complex, Room

lwang2@ufl.edu | 352-273-8104

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Sebastian Mihail

Lab Technician

Projects:

Testing effects of foliar phenylananine spray on orange rust resistance in sugarcane. 

- In-Silico WGCNA to find lncRNA genes correlated with orange rust resistance.

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Nicolas Hidalgo

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects:

Functional validation of nodulation-related genes via cas9 gene editing.

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Kamila Trigueros

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects

Testing effects of foliar phenylalanine spray on orange rust resistance in sugarcane.

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Carson Llorente

Undergraduate Research assistant

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Nathaniel Pontefract

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects:

Functional validation of nodulation-related genes via cas9 editing.

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Undergrad

Undergraduate Research assistant

Projects:

Past Members

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