Mark Guiltinan: CV Please see special Tribute to My Scientific Mentors Page

• Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
• Director: American Cocoa Research Program in the Molecular Biology of Cacao
• Co-Director: Life Sciences Consortium Plant Sciences Center

Current:

Seinor Research Associate

• Siela Maximova: CV - Cacao Tissue Culture, Crop Improvment, Technology Transfer

Research Associates

• Marna D. Yandeau-Nelson Starch Branching Enzymes

Staff Research Specialists

• Sharon Pishak: - Cacao Tissue culture, DNA cloning, lab manager
• Ann Young: Cacao Tissue culture, DNA cloning
  

Support Staff

Graduate Students

• Zi Shi NPR Gene Family in Arabidopsis and Cacao
• Yi Liu: Flovonoid Biosynthetic Pathway of Cacao
• Jean-Philippe Marelli: Dept of Plant Pathology: Fungal Genetics

Undergraduate Students

Former:

Former Postdoctoral Research Associates

Name	Duration	Doctoral Institution
Zhijian Li	7/1996-4/1998	.Louisiana State Univ.
Lauren Gross (formerly McHenry)	1992-1993	Ph. D. Penn State, Plant Physiology, (CV) , Lauren Remembers
Nancy Eckardt
Leslie Carlini
Susan Blauth	9/1997-7/1999	Cornell Univ. (CV) Identification and preliminary characterization of two maize starch branching enzyme mutants: sbe1::Mu and sbe2a::Mu
David Hulce	9/1998-2/2000	.Iowa State Univ.

• Yuan Yao: Starch Branching Enzymes, Molecular Genetic Anaysis
  • personal web site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/y/o/yoy1/
• Joe Verica: Cacao Genomics, Plant Defense Responses: CV

Former Staff Research Associates

Lisa Renshaw-Gegg (CV) 1993-1996 Laboratory Technician (staff assistant)

Conducted research to define the functional domain of DNA binding proteins.
Lab Manager.

Linda Miller

Former Graduate Students

Former Undergraduate Students