Parasitic Plant Genome Project

Project Personnel:

Project Members:

James H. Westwood (PI) - Virginia Tech (westwood@vt.edu)

Claude W. dePamphilis (Co-PI) - Penn State University (cwd3@psu.edu)

Michael P. Timko (Co-PI) - University of Virginia (mpt9g@virginia.edu)

John I. Yoder (Co-PI) - University of California, Davis (jiyoder@ucdavis.edu)

Additional personnel:

Norman Wickett - postdoctoral fellow - Penn State University - informatics (norman.wickett@gmail.com)

Malay Das - postdoctoral fellow - Virginia Tech - researcher (malay@vt.edu)

Biao Wu - postdoctoral fellow - UC Davis - root molecular biology (biowu@ucdavis.edu)

Kan Huang - postdoctoral fellow - University of Virginia - researcher (kh4mr@virginia.edu)

Monica Fernandez-Aparicio - postdoctoral fellow (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship) - Virginia Tech - researcher (monica.fernandez@ias.csic.es)

Loren Honaas - graduate student - Penn State University parasitic - plant-host plant interactions (lah338@psu.edu)

Yeting Zhang - graduate student - Penn State University - horizontal gene flow (yzz119@psu.edu)

Pradeepa Gunathilake - graduate student - UC Davis (pgunathilake@ucdavis.edu)

Eric K. Wafula - programmer - Penn State University - bioinformatics (ekw10@psu.edu)

Paula E. Ralph - technician - Penn State University - RNA and DNA libraries (per125@psu.edu)

Natalie Dilley - High school student - Virginia Tech - researcher

Other project members not necessarily funded by the project:

Lena L. LandHerr - technician - Penn State University (lll109@psu.edu)

P. Kerr Wall - programmer - Penn State University - bioinformatics (pkerrwall@psu.edu)

Justin Colon - undergraduate programmer - Penn State University (jrc5076@psu.edu)

Barry Liu - undergraduate programmer - Cornell University (barryliu89@yahoo.com)

Jonathan Paulson - undergraduate programmer - Carnegie Mellon Univerity (jonathanpaulson@gmail.com)

Verlyn Stromberg - technician - Virginia Tech (verlyn@vt.edu)