Lab Members

June 2019 in the Mildred Mathias Botanical Garden (L-R): Kiumars Edalati, Jonathan Shi, Kenji Hayashi, Marcel Vaz, Mary Van Dyke, Heather Lindsay, Anmol Dhaliwal, Nathan Kraft, Megan Clark, Xinyi Yan, Gaurav Kandlikar.

P1010761_crop Dr. Nathan Kraft

email: nkraft@ucla.edu

office: Botany 410J

phone: (310) 825-3593

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Dr. Hannah Carroll

IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow (co-mentored with Dr. Aradhna Tripati, EPSS)

email:  hcarroll@epss.ucla.edu

Dr. Samantha Catella

La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Postdoctoral Fellow (co-mentored with Dr. Sophie Parker, The Nature Conservancy)

email: samanthacatella@g.ucla.edu

Kenji Hayashi

Ph.D. candidate

email: kthayashi@ucla.edu

office: Botany 410

Lauren Glevanik

Ph.D. student

email: lglevanik@g.ucla.edu

office: botany 410

13507072_10207032680841121_7269898721878485635_n-1 Mary Van Dyke

Ph.D. candidate

email: mnvandyke@ucla.edu

office: Botany 410

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Jordan Yanowitz

M.S. student

email: jordanyano@g.ucla.edu

office: Botany 410

Haylee Oyler

Research Tech

Email: hoyler@ucla.edu

Office: Botany 410

 

Alumni- UCLA

Doctoral Students Dr. Ian McFadden graduated 2019 (now a postdoc at WSL and ETH in Zurich, Switzerland)

Dr. Gaurav Kandlikar graduated 2020 (now postdoctoral fellow at University of Missouri)

Dr. Marcel Vaz graduated 2021 (will move to postdoc at UCLA in 2022)

Postdocs Dr. Andrew Kleinhesselink 2017-2020 (now researcher, University of Montana)

Dr. Claire Fortunel 2013-2016 (now a Research Scientist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)

Dr. Lei Chen 2015-2016 (now associate professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Visiting Scholars Aubrie James (Ph.D. student, Geber Lab, Cornell University) 2017

Dr. Yi Ding (Professor, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, China), 2017

Dr. Milton de Souza Mendonça Jr. (Professor, UFGRS, Brazil), 2019-2020

Dr. Bill Hoffman (Professor, North Carolina State University). 2019

Research Techs Suzanne Ou (Ph.D. student, Peay Lab, Stanford University), 2017-2018

Mary Van Dyke (Ph.D. student, Kraft Lab, UCLA), 2016-2017

Alumni- University of Maryland

Postdocs Dr. Kristen Powell (SESYNC postdoctoral fellow) 2013-2014
Visiting Scholars Dr. Benoit Parmentier (postdoc, McGill Lab, U Maine) 2014-2015

Dr. Rong Li (Associate Prof., Kunming Institute of Botany) 2013-2014

Marcos Carlucci (Ph.D. student, Duarte Lab, UFRGS, Brazil) 2014

Cristina Bastias (Ph.D. Student, Valladares Lab, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) 2014

Dr. Jeanne Osnas (postdoc, Lichstein Lab, U Florida) 2012-2013

Previous Lab Photos

Winter 2017: Mildred Mathias Botanical Garden, UCLA: Yi Ding, Bastien Dehaudt, Gaurav Kandlikar, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Mary Van Dyke, Ian McFadden, Claire Fortunel, Aubrie James, Clare Camilleri, Marcel Vaz, Nathan Kraft.IMG_3823 2

Fall 2015 Lab Retreat, W. Virginia: Nathan, Ian, Marcel, Lei, Gaurav, Claire

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Fall 2014- W. Virginia: Kristin Powell, Nathan Kraft, Claire Fortunel, Marcos Carlucci, Ian McFadden, Rong Li.