Current lab members

I am an associate professor of Crop Physiology at the department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota. I received my Ph.D. in plant ecophysiology from Montpellier SupAgro and completed my postdoctoral training at AgroParisTech/INRAE (France) and the University of Florida, before joining the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) prior to my current position at the University of Minnesota. My research focuses on identifying functional traits that have the potential to support breeding for enhanced yield potential and tolerance to drought, heat and freezing stresses in several crop plants.

Olivia Anderson is our lab's technician. She holds a BS in Plant Science from the University of Minnesota (LinkedIn). Her research interests are in plant physiology, breeding and plant pathology. Olivia also has strong interest in K-8 education.

Ravneet is a postdoctoral associate with a PhD in Plant Physiology from Virginia Tech. She holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture with Honors in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology from Punjab Agricultural University. She is currently leading a project aiming at identfying traits enabling improved seed quality under nighttime high temperature stress in 3 crops (LinkedIn). 

Maicy is a postdoctoral associate with a PhD in Plant Physiology from the University of Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in Biology, with a minor in Public Health, from Gustavus Adolphus College. She is currently leading a project aiming at developing high-throughput freezing assays and advanced phenomics technologies to fast-track breeding for freezing tolerance in 9 crops (LinkedIn).