Lab Members
LAB HEAD
![Tesfaye Mengiste](../../_media/headshots/cpb_mengiste.jpg)
Professor Tesfaye Mengiste
POST DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
![Sanghun Lee](../../_media/headshots/leesanghun.jpg)
![Chao-Jan Liao](../../_media/headshots/liaochaojan.jpg)
Chao-Jan Liao
Chao work as a post-Doc in Dr. Mengiste from 2016. His work is mainly focus on plant immune mechanism against fungal pathogens in Arabidopsis, tomato, and Sorghum. He used molecular, genetic, biochemistry, and proteomomics approaches to study immune-related proteins including histone acetyltransferases and receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pJlMnpUAAAAJ&hl=en
![Gezahegn Girma](../lab-site-template/_media/screen-shot-2022-08-30-at-21.57.301.png)
![Eunyoung Seo](../lab-site-template/_media/nopic.jpg)
PhD Students
![Sara Hailemariam](../../_media/headshots/hailemariamsara.jpg)
![Pascal Okoye](../lab-site-template/_media/nopic.jpg)
![Madylin Schaider](../lab-site-template/_media/img_32792.jpg)
PAST LAB MEMBERS
PhD student (2016-2021). Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Gebisa Ejeta, Purdue University, USA.
PhD student (2015-2020).Postdoctoral Fellow in Washington State University.
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (). Research Associate at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.