People

Lawren Sack- Principal Investigator

email: lawrensack@ucla.edu

phone: (310) 825-6525

office: Botany Building, 4th floor

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Postdocs
Camila Medeiros

email: camilamedeiros@ucla.edu

office: Botany Building, 4th floor

Interests: trait-based approaches in physiology, evolution, and ecology; science communication

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Graduate Students
Nico Andrade
email: nicoandrade@g.ucla.edu

office: Botany Building, 4th floor

Interests: plant-soil interactions, plant traits, microbiomes

 

Jesse Gomez

 

email: jegomez97@g.ucla.edu

office: Botany Building, 4th floor

Interests: leaf anatomy, impacts of phloem on xylem function, post-drought xylem and phloem recovery in California native plants

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Jordyn Regier

email: jordynregier@gmail.com
office: Botany Building, 4th floor

Interests: leaf physiology, ecology, drought responses

Nidhi Vinod

email: nidrup@gmail.com

office: Botany Building, 4th floor

Interests: leaf anatomy, function, physiology, hydraulics, forest ecosystem ecology

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Research Assistants / Technician
photo Jessica Smith

email: bobalette@gmail.com

office: 3215 Life Sciences Building

 Undergraduate Assistants
Updated information coming soon…
Lab Group Alumni
Graduate Students Alec Baird, PhD

Megan Bartlett, PhD

Marvin Browne, PhD

Marissa Caringella, MS

Chris Creese, PhD

Leila Fletcher, PhD

Christian Henry, PhD

Faith Inman-Narahari, PhD

Grace John, PhD

Aurora Kagawa, MS

Camila Medeiros, PhD

Marissa Ochoa, PhD

Christopher Nakahashi, MS

Christine Scoffoni, PhD

Margaret Sporck, PhD

Mashuri Waite, PhD

Postdoctoral Researchers Molly Cavaleri

Antonio Gasco

Norbert (Nobby) Kunert

Athena McKown

Rodrigo Mendez-Alonzo

Christine Scoffoni

Santiago Trueba

Research Assistants Tiffany Cheng

Kristen Frole

Israel Jimenez

Michael McMaster

Rosa Menjivar

Kehauwealani Nelson-Kaula

Molly Ng

Jessica Pasquet-Kok

Amish Patel

Michael Rawls

Christine Vuong

Joseph Zailaa

Research Visitors Krõõt Aasamaa, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Georgina Barratt, University of Nottingham

Tim Brodribb, University of Tasmania

Tom Buckley, University of Sydney

Kun-Fang Cao, Guangxi Univesity, Nanning, China

Brendan Choat, University of Western Sydney

Herve Cochard, UMR-PIAF, INRA-Université Blaise Pascal, France

Hongxia Cui, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sharon Danielson, Holden Arboretum, Ohio

Michael Donoghue, Yale University

Erika Edwards, Brown University

Adrián Escribano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Katie Field, University of Leeds

Alicia Forner Sales, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Jennifer Funk, Chapman University

Carlos Garcia-Verdugo, University of California, Berkeley

Ros Gleadow, Monash University, Australia

Elena Granda, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Gaëlle Guyot, Bordeaux University, France

Yu Jang, Waseda University

Emilie Joetzjer, Montana State University

Justin Kunkle, University of Minnesota

Justine Laoué, Bordeaux University, France

Congcong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Anna Locke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Victor Lu, Xishuangbananna Tropical Botanical Garden, China

Zeqing Ma, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sebastià Martorell, U de les Illes Balears, Spain

Juliana Medeiros, Holden Arboretum, Ohio

Peter Melcher, Ithaca College

Lisa Merkhofer, Pennsylvania State University

Ruihua Pan, Northwest A&F University, China

Diane Pataki, University of Utah

Jessica Pasquet-Kok, Bordeaux University, France

Alicia Pou Mir, U de les Illes Balears, Spain

Pengfei Qiao, Tsinghua University, China

Celia Rodríguez Domínguez, IRNA de Sevilla, CSIC, Spain

Christine Scoffoni, Bordeaux University, France

Jia Song, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sam Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

Mel Tyree, Northwest A&F University, China

Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University

Adam Wolf, Princeton University

Ian Wright, Macquarie University, Australia

Amy Zanne, George Washington University