Current Members:

Dr. Zhongchi Liu
Minh Bui
Courtney Hollender

Boyana Grigorova
Maitreyi Chattopadhyay
Paja Sijasic
Chloe Mara
Huie Li

Some Former Members

V.V Sridhar
Chunxing Wang
Bob Franks
Alex Xiaozhong Bao
Jayashree Sitaraman
Anandkumar Surendrarao
F
ei Huang
C hanna Amarasekera
Parsa Hosseini
Vidyadhar Karmarkar
Ranjani Iyer
Dircelene Torres
Fatima Mboup

 Members

Dr. Zhongchi Liu
Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard)
zliu@umd.edu
"I was raised in Guangzhou, China and received my undergraduate degree from Wuhan University. In 1983, I came to the US through the Ray Wu (CUSBEA) program and received my graduate education at Harvard University. I was fortunate to do my Ph.D. research in the lab of Dr. Victor Ambros, where I worked on the molecular genetics of C. elegans postembryonic development. In 1991, I joined the lab of Dr. Elliot Meyerowitz at Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow and started my career as a plant geneticist. In 1995, I was appointed to the faculty of the University of Maryland and continue my research in plant reprodutive development."


Minh Bui, BS (Univ. Maryland, 2003)
Graduate Student
minhbui82@hotmail.com
I am currently a third year graduate student in the Department of Biology. I recieved my Bachelor's degree here at University of Maryland, originally joined Dr. Colombini's lab to work with membrane channels but later decided to pursue a field in which I am passionate about, plant biology, so I joined Dr. Liu's lab in 2005. My current research project involves working with floral regulating genes -LUG, LUH, and SEU. My other interests include collecting orchids (to which I have acquired approximately 60 of), other plants, and I have several pets (2 cats and an African grey parrot).


Courtney Hollender BS (Goucher College, 2004)
Graduate Student
chollend@umd.edu
Description


Boyana Grigorova, BS (Univ. Maryland, 2007)
Graduate student
boyanagrigorova@abv.bg
 


Maitreyi Chattopadhyay, MS (Florida State Univ, 2007)
Rotating graduate student
mchattop@umd.edu
 


Paja Sijacic, PhD (Penn State 2007)
Postdoc
psijacic@umd.edu
description


Chloe Mara, PhD (Yale, 2008)
Postdoc
cmara@umd.edu
description


Nathan Lim
Senior, Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
 
   

Some Former Ph,D, Student and Postdoc

V. V. Sridhar, Currently A Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside
Chunxing Wang
, Currently A Postdoctoral Fellow at Dr. Richard Youle's lab at NINDS/NIH
Bob Franks
(Website), Currently An Assistant Professor, NC State
Alex Xiaozhong Bao, Currently A Postdoctoral Fellow in Susan Mackem's Lab at NCI
Jayashree Sitaraman, Former Ph.D. Student, currently at Nationa Library of Medicine
Anandkumar Surendrarao, Currently a graduate student at UC Davis



Huie Li, BS (China Northwestern Agriculture and Forestry Univ., 2006)
Former exchange graduate Student
greenhopeli@hotmail.com
 


Vidyadhar Karmarkar
Former Graduate student
 
 

Fei Huang

Former visiting undergraduate Student from Sichuan Univ., China. Now graduate student at Indiana-Purdue University

 
 


Channa Amarasekera
Former undergraduate student.
channa@umd.edu
 


Parsa Hosseini
Former undergraduate Student. Now a graduate student at Towson University
phossein@umd.edu

 

 



RanjaniIyer

Former undergraduate Student. Now graduate student at UC Irvine

ranjani_Iyer@hotmail.com
Description


Dircelene Torres & Fatima Mboup
High School Students from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt Maryland
 
 



Positions Available:
We welcome graduate students interested in doing a rotation in our lab. We have many interesting and exciting projects available for Ph.D. thesis. If interested please Contact Dr. Zhongchi Liu.