People

Current Lab Members

Robert G. Franks (Bob)

Email: rgfranks (at) ncsu.edu

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tufts University – 1986
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience from the University of California at Los Angeles – 1994
  • Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Genetics of Floral Development at the University of Maryland – 1998-2001
  • Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Genetics of Floral Development at the University of California at Berkeley – 2001-2003

I earned my Ph.D. with Steve Crews from the Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience at UCLA. I then did postdoctoral work with Zhongchi Liu at the University of Maryland, College Park and with Bob Fischer at UC Berkeley.

Miguel Flores-Vergara

Email: maflores (at) ncsu.edu

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science – Metropolitan Autonomous Universit, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Ph.D – NCSU – Plant Biology
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – Michigan State University – with Steve van Nocker
  • Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Franks Lab, NCSU

Brian Sullivan

Email: bjsulliv (at) ncsu.edu

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science – Lehigh University
  • Currently a graduate student in the Plant Biology Graduate program,NCSU

Jessica Markowitz

Email: jmarkow (at) ncsu.edu

  • Currently earning a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, NCSU

Danielle Curran

Email: dmcurran (at) ncsu.edu

  • Currently earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, NCSU

Bianca Clark

Email: bcclark4 (at) ncsu.ed

  • Currently earning a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, NCSU

Former Lab Members

 

Gonzalo Villarino


Education:

  • Bachelor of Science
  • Ph.D. Horticulture – Cornell University
  • Postdoctoral Research, Franks Lab, NCSU
  • Postdoctoral Research, Jacob Lab, Yale University

Bhupinder Sehra


Education:

  • Bachelor of Science
  • Master of Science
  •  Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics from North Carolina State University – 2017

Bryson Deanhardt

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science Genetics
  • Currently in the Neurobiology Graduate Training Program at Duke University

 

Beth Rueschhoff

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs – 1994
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Biology from North Carolina State University – 2009
  • Postdoctoral Research in Arabidopsis Floral Development at North Carolina State University – 2009-2011

Beth is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Southeast.

April Wynn


Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Natural Science from McMurry University – 2004 – graduated summa cum laude
  • Master of Science in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education from Texas A&M University – 2006
  • Ph.D. in Genetics from North Carolina State University
  • Now an Assistant Professor at University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Jacob Vasser

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
  • Went on to receive a Masters in Microbial Biotechnology, NCSU

 

Xavious Allen

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, NCSU 2017

 

Grace Foley

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Genetics, NCSU

 

Michael Schwartz

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science from North Carolina State University –  Plant Biology
  • Currently enrolled in the Botany and Plant Sciences Graduate PhD. Program at UC Riverside.

David Higgins

  • Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology and Genetics from North Carolina State University – 2008-2012
  • Currently a graduate student in Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, Athens.


Andrew Seaman

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science from North Carolina State University in Genetics


Ashley Jones (Loray)

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology and Zoology from North Carolina State University – 2008-2012
  • Loray received her Masters degree from the University of Texas, Austin


Kurtis Dluge

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Western Michigan University – 2010
  • Ph.D. in Functional Genomics from North Carolina State University – 2011-2017

 

Nathan Bihlmeyer

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University – 2011
  • Earning Doctor of Philosophy in Human Genetics from Johns Hopkins University – 2011-Ongoing


Staci Nole-Wilson

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University Southeast – 1998
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from the University of South Carolina at Columbia – 2004
  • Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Genetics of Floral Development at North Carolina State University – 2005-2011
  • Staci is now an Adjunct faculty in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Southeast.

Chunmiao Feng (Mia)

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Biological Science from Fudan University at Shanghai, China – 2005
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Biology from North Carolina State University – 2011
  • Mia is now a postdoc researcher at Duke University in Meng Chen’s lab.

Sridevi Azhakanandam

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Botany from the University of Madras at Chrompet, India – 1995
  • Master of Science in Botany from the University of Madras at Tambaram, India – 2000
  • Sridevi is a research specialist at NCSU in Entomology working with David Tarpy.

Fang Bao

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts, from Northwest Forest College in Shaanxi, China – 1994
  • Master of Science in Biochemistry from Beijing Normal University – 1997
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China – 2002
  • Postdoctoral Research, University of California at Riverside – 2002-2004
  • Postdoctoral Research, North Carolina State University – 2005-2009
  • Fang is now an Professor at Bejing Normal University in Bejing, China