Lab Personnel

Principal Investigator

 

Pradeep did his Ph.D on transposable elements in the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea partly from M.S. University Baroda and a partly from University of Wisconsin. He was a Research Associate with Prof. Dan Klessig at the Boyce Thompson Institute, NY until his appointment as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Plant Pathology in September 2002.
Helping Plants Defend Themselves - Odyssey, Summer 2004

Pradeep Kachoroo

Research Analyst

 

Ludmila has been a UK employee since 1996, when she arrived as visiting scientist from Ukraine. She takes care of all that is required to keep the lab running smoothly, including the plants and the lab members.

 

Research Specialist

 

Aardra came to the lab along with Pradeep in Jan 2003 following her second postdoc studying Self-Incompatibility in Brassica at Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D on disease resistance in rice jointly from the M.S. University of Baroda, India and the Salk Institute, CA.

  Publications

Aardra kachroo

Post Docs

 

Chandra came to the lab in August of 2003. He completed his Ph.D on "Genetic and Molecular Analyses of Cytoplasmic-Nuclear Male Sterility Systems in Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum)" from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute , India.

Graduate Students

 

Sri is a student at UK since Fall 2003. He completed his Masters from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Srivathsa

Past Members

 
  • Dorothy Hargis (picture)- Undergraduate student- Participated in the 2004 Kentucky Young Scientists summer research program.
  • Christopher Reeves: undergraduate student
  • A Pisipati: undergraduate student