{"id":168,"date":"2016-03-19T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T06:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-sacklab\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:54:58","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-sacklab\/people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLawren Sack- Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

email: lawrensack@ucla.edu<\/p>\n

phone: (310) 825-6525<\/p>\n

office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

website<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Postdocs<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nGraduate Students<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nNico Andrade<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>email: nicoandrade@g.ucla.edu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: plant-soil interactions, plant traits, microbiomes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nJesse Gomez<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

email: jegomez97@g.ucla.edu<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: leaf anatomy, impacts of phloem on xylem function, post-drought xylem and phloem recovery in California native plants<\/p>\n

twitter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nLenny Korob<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

email: lennykorob@gmail.com<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: phloem biomechanics, trait-based ecology, scaling of physiological processes, root physiology<\/p>\n

website<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nJordyn Regier<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

email: jordynregier@gmail.com
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\noffice: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: leaf physiology, ecology, drought responses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nMaia Supple
\n<\/strong><\/strong>(co-advised with Nathan Kraft)<\/p>\n

email: msupple@g.ucla.edu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: trait-based ecology, community assembly, functional and phylogenetic rarity, drought and stress adaptation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nNidhi Vinod
\n<\/strong>(co-advised with Elsa Ordway)<\/p>\n

email: nidrup@gmail.com<\/p>\n

office: Botany Building, 4th floor<\/p>\n

Interests: leaf anatomy, function, physiology, hydraulics, forest ecosystem ecology<\/p>\n

website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Research Assistants <\/strong>\/ Technician<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"photo\"<\/td>\nJessica Smith<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>email: bobalette@gmail.com<\/p>\n

office: 3215 Life Sciences Building<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0Undergraduate Assistants<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Updated information coming soon…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Lab Group Alumni<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate Students<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nAlec Baird, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Megan Bartlett, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marvin Browne, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marissa Caringella, MS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Creese, PhD<\/p>\n

Leila Fletcher, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Henry, PhD<\/p>\n

Faith Inman-Narahari, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Grace John, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aurora Kagawa, MS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Camila Medeiros, PhD<\/p>\n

Marissa Ochoa, PhD<\/p>\n

Christopher Nakahashi, MS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Christine Scoffoni, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Margaret Sporck, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mashuri Waite, PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Postdoctoral Researchers<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMolly Cavaleri<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Antonio Gasco<\/p>\n

Norbert (Nobby) Kunert<\/p>\n

Athena McKown<\/p>\n

Camila Medeiros<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rodrigo Mendez-Alonzo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Christine Scoffoni<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Santiago Trueba<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Research Assistants<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTiffany Cheng<\/p>\n

Kristen Frole<\/p>\n

Israel Jimenez<\/p>\n

Michael McMaster<\/p>\n

Rosa Menjivar<\/p>\n

Kehauwealani Nelson-Kaula<\/p>\n

Molly Ng<\/p>\n

Jessica Pasquet-Kok<\/p>\n

Amish Patel<\/p>\n

Michael Rawls<\/p>\n

Christine Vuong<\/p>\n

Joseph Zailaa<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Research Visitors<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nKr\u00f5\u00f5t Aasamaa, Estonian University of Life Sciences<\/p>\n

Georgina Barratt, University of Nottingham<\/p>\n

Tim Brodribb<\/a><\/strong>, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n

Tom Buckley<\/a><\/strong>, University of Sydney<\/p>\n

Kun-Fang Cao<\/a><\/strong>, Guangxi Univesity, Nanning, China<\/p>\n

Brendan Choat<\/a><\/strong>, University of Western Sydney<\/p>\n

Herve Cochard<\/a><\/strong>, UMR-PIAF, INRA-Universit\u00e9 Blaise Pascal, France<\/p>\n

Hongxia Cui<\/a><\/strong>, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

Sharon Danielson, Holden Arboretum, Ohio<\/p>\n

Michael Donoghue<\/a><\/strong>, Yale University<\/p>\n

Erika Edwards<\/a><\/strong>, Brown University<\/p>\n

Adri\u00e1n Escribano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

Katie Field<\/a><\/strong>, University of Leeds<\/p>\n

Alicia Forner Sales, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

Jennifer Funk<\/a><\/strong>, Chapman University<\/p>\n

Carlos Garcia-Verdugo, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

Ros Gleadow<\/a><\/strong>, Monash University, Australia<\/p>\n

Elena Granda, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

Ga\u00eblle Guyot, Bordeaux University, France<\/p>\n

Yu Jang, Waseda University<\/p>\n

Emilie Joetzjer<\/a><\/strong>, Montana State University<\/p>\n

Justin Kunkle, University of Minnesota<\/span><\/p>\n

Justine Laou\u00e9, Bordeaux University, France<\/p>\n

Congcong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna Locke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Lu, Xishuangbananna Tropical Botanical Garden, China<\/span><\/p>\n

Zeqing Ma, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebasti\u00e0 Martorell, U de les Illes Balears, Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

Juliana Medeiros<\/a><\/strong>, Holden Arboretum, Ohio<\/p>\n

Peter Melcher<\/a><\/strong>, Ithaca College<\/p>\n

Lisa Merkhofer, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

Ruihua Pan, Northwest A&F University, China<\/p>\n

Colin Osborne<\/a><\/strong>, University of Sheffield<\/p>\n

Diane Pataki<\/a><\/strong>, University of Utah<\/p>\n

Jessica Pasquet-Kok, Bordeaux University, France<\/p>\n

Alicia Pou Mir, U de les Illes Balears, Spain<\/p>\n

Pengfei Qiao<\/a><\/strong>, Tsinghua University, China<\/p>\n

Celia Rodr\u00edguez Dom\u00ednguez, IRNA de Sevilla, CSIC, Spain<\/p>\n

Christine Scoffoni, Bordeaux University, France<\/p>\n

Jia Song, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Sam Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK<\/p>\n

Mel Tyree, Northwest A&F University, China<\/p>\n

Peter Wilf<\/a><\/strong>, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

Adam Wolf, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Ian Wright<\/a><\/strong>, Macquarie University, Australia<\/p>\n

Amy Zanne<\/strong><\/a>, George Washington University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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