Current Members:

Dr. Zhongchi Liu
Courtney Hollender
Dandan Li
Wanpeng Wang

Paja Sijasic
Chunying Kang
Songqing Ye
Charles Hawkins

Sohan Warusha
Alyssa-Marie Currie
Aviva Geretz
Michael Wellen
Dae Ik Yi
Howard Huang

Some Former Members

V.V Sridhar
Chunxing Wang
Bob Franks
Alex Xiaozhong Bao
Jayashree Sitaraman
Anandkumar Surendrarao
Chloe Mara
Megan Lantner

Anjani Kumar
F
ei Huang
C hanna Amarasekera
Parsa Hosseini
Vidyadhar Karmarkar
Ranjani Iyer
Dircelene Torres
Fatima Mboup
Huie Li

Maitreyi Chattopadhyay
Minh Bui
Boyana Grigorova
Toju Aldore
Jillian Aquino
Chris Frank
Rao Fu
Nathan Lim

 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."

Courtney Courtney Hollender BA (Goucher College, 2003)
PhD Student
chollend@umd.edu
Originally from Staten Island, NY, I joined the Liu Lab as a PhD student in 2007 after working as a laboratory technician for several years at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. My research focuses on transcriptional regulation of carpel development in Arabidopsis as well as flower and fruit development in diploid strawberry. I like to brew beers, camp, and fix my house in my spare time.
Dandan Li Dandan Li
PhD Student
ddanli@umd.edu
 
George Wang Wanpeng Wang
PhD Student
wanpeng@umd.edu
 
charles Charles Hawkins, BS (Univ. of Maryland, 2009)
PhD student
hawkcharles@gmail.com
description

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

songqing

Songqing Ye, PhD (Univ. of Minnesota, 2009)
Visiting Postdoc
sye16@umd.edu
description

Chunying Kang Chunying Kang
Postdoc
chykang@hotmail.com
 

  Howard Huang
A high school student at Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.
 
   
Aviva Aviva Geretz
Undergraduate student
ageretz@umd.edu
description
Sohan Sohan Warusha
Undergraduate student
Sohan23@umd.edu
description
Alyssa-Maria
Alyssa-Marie Currie
Undergraduate student
acurrie@umces.edu
description
  Michael Wellen
Undergraduate student
 
description
Dae Ik Yi Dae Ik Yi
Undergraduate student
sa486998@gmail.com
 

Some Former Ph,D, Student and Postdoc

V. V. Sridhar, Currently An Assistant Professor at Univ. of New Orleans
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

Chloe Mara, PhD (Yale, 2008)
Former postdoc
cmara@umd.edu
description
Anjnai Anjani Kumar
Former undergraduate student
akumar@umd.edu
description
Megan Megan Lantner
Former undergraduate student
megan@lantner.net
description

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


Vidyadhar Karmarkar
Former Graduate student
Currently PhD student in Netherland
 

Fei Huang

Former visiting undergraduate Student from Sichuan Univ., China.

Currently graduate student at Indiana-Purdue University
 


Channa Amarasekera
Former undergraduate student.
Currently medical student at Harvard Medical School
 


Parsa Hosseini
Former undergraduate Student.
Currently a graduate student at George Mason University (computer science)

 

 



Ranjani Iyer

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
 
 
Minh Bui Minh Bui, BS (Univ. Maryland, 2003)
PhD. (Univ. of Maryland, 2009)
minhbui82@hotmail.com
Former PhD student. Currently A Postdoc at NIH
Boyana Grigorova

Boyana Grigorova, BS (Univ. Maryland, 2007)

MS (Univ. of Maryland, 2010)
boyanagrigorova@abv.bg
Former MS student. Currently a medical student.
MC Maitreyi Chattopadhyay, MS (Florida State Univ, 2007)

Former rotation graduate student
Currently a graduate student at Univ. of Maryland

mchattop@umd.edu
 
Chris Chris Frank, BS (Univ. of Maryland, 2010)
Former undergraduate Student.
Currently a graduate student at Duke

 

 

Jillian Jillian Aquino
Former undergraduate Student.
Currently an undergrduate at Univ. of Maryland

 

 

Toju Toju Aldore
Former undergraduate Student.
 

 

 

Nathan Lim Nathan Lim
Formerly a senior at Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Now undergraduate at Univ. of Maryland.
   



Positions Available:
Interetsed in PhD study in our lab? Apply through two graduate programs:

(1) BISI program
(2) Plant Sciences

Interested in doing a rotation in our lab? We have many interesting and exciting projects. Please contact Dr. Zhongchi Liu.