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Olsen Lab Alumni

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Yongxia Cui
Visiting Ph.D. Student
I am interested in the phenotypic characteristics of plants, which relate to plant evolution and adaptation.

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Wei-min Dai
Visiting Scholar
My research interests focus on the genetic evolution of weed species in agricultural ecosystems using weedy rice and transgenic rice as models. My current work includes adaptive genes and whole genome sequence  analysis of weedy rice.


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Briana L. Gross
Postdoctoral Associate
Briana Gross is now an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota - Duluth.


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Pu Huang
Ph.D. Student
Pu Huang is currently a postdoc at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.


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Muhammad Abid Khan
Visiting Ph.D. Student
My research interests include evolution and anthropogenic selection of various candidate genes in cultivated rice. Currently I’m working on the origin and the patterns of domestication of fragrance genes in rice.


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Nic Kooyers
Ph.D. Student
Nic Kooyers is now an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.


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Lin-Feng Li
Research Scientist
My primary research interest concerns the genetic basis of evolution in plants. Much of this work focuses on the origin and domestication of crops (e.g., banana, rice and ginseng) and adaptive speciation of columbine. My current work includes a large-scale search for associations of genetic/epigenetic variations at candidate genes with phenotypic traits.


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Xinshuai Qi
Postdoctoral Associate
Xinshuai Qi is now a postdoc at the University of Arizona in Michael Barker's lab.



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Cynthia Vigueira
Postdoctoral Associate
Cindy Vigueira is now an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department of High Point University.


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Kate Waselkov
Ph.D. Student
Kate Waselkov is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at California State University, Fresno.

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Sara J. Wright
Ph.D. Student
Sara Wright is now a Lecturer in Biological Sciences at Rowan University. More information can be found on her personal website:
www.sarajwright.com

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Daniel Cui Zhou
Undergraduate Student
I'm a senior at Wash U. still deciding which area of Biology interests me the most. I currently enjoy anything related to genetics and evolution.
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