Lab Members

Nolan Bentley
Assistant Professor of Instruction

Links to his various public profiles can be found at www.NolanBentley.com

Nolan Bentley is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin where he teaches the “Principles of Computational Read moreabout Nolan Bentley

Jason Bonnette

Jason Bonnette

Field Manager

Jason somehow manages to command an army of researchers (including grads, postdocs & sometimes faculty), travel the US to oversee our many fieldRead moreabout Jason Bonnette

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William Brun

FRI Undergraduate Peer Mentor

William is a Peer Mentor for the Juenger lab’s FRI Stream. He assists freshmen in their introduction to the laboratory and the skills needed inRead moreabout William Brun

Andrew

Andrew Eastland

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Andrew is an undergraduate peer mentor for the X-Plants FRI Stream. He studies Panicum hallii and Arabidopsis thaliana, conducting research projects to Read moreabout Andrew Eastland

Ahmed Elfarargi

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Eliana Glenn

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Eliana is an undergraduate research assistant in the Juenger lab. She has assisted on various microbiome projects within the lab and developed a project Read moreabout Eliana Glenn

Caio Guilherme Pereira

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Aleah Henderson-Carter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a CNS professional track faculty member and a postdoctoral fellow in the Juenger lab. I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and EvolutionaryRead moreabout Aleah Henderson-Carter, Ph.D.

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Allison Hutt

PhD Candidate

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I am a PhD student researching the ecology, physiology, and genetics of Texas native resurrection grass Tripogonella spicata. Resurrection plants have the Read moreabout Allison Hutt

Albina Khasanova

Albina Khasanova

Former Graduate Student

Former Postdoc in The Northen Metabolomics Lab, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Current Postdoctoral Researcher

My research interests are to understand how environmental factors, such as water and nutrient availability, can impact plant physiological and ecologicalRead moreabout Albina Khasanova

Chandan

Chandan Kumar

PhD student

I’m a  PhD student  under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Juenger. My thing? Epigenetics, I’m all about how plants use epigenetic magic to handleRead moreabout Chandan Kumar

Sydney LaStella

Sydney LaStella

PhD Candidate

I am a PhD student studying the genetic basis for adaptation in Read moreabout Sydney LaStella

Sam

Sam Mathieu

Research Technician

Usha

Usha Bishnoi Saran

Research Engineering Scientist Associate III

I am a Research Engineering Scientist Associate III in the Juenger lab. My research interests include promoting the sustainable agriculture system, studying Read moreabout Usha Bishnoi Saran

Xiaoyu Weng

Xiaoyu Weng

Research Associate

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Detecting and responding to environmental perturbations is one of the most important distinguishing features of plants. I am interested in how plantsRead moreabout Xiaoyu Weng

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Li Zhang

I am a research fellow in Dr. Juenger’s lab, working on quantitative genetic analyses including the development and implementation of various Read more