Past Lab Members
Graduate Students
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Spencer Givens
MS Graduate Research Assistant Project: The interaction of air and nutrient solution temperature on culinary herb physiological and biochemical responses Honors and awards:
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Ethan Darby
MS Graduate Research Assistant Project: Modeling leafy greens physiological and biochemical responses to light intensity and successive harvest Honors and awards:
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Jessica Kurtis
MS Graduate Research Assistant Project: End of production lighting strategies to improve kale phytonutrient accumulation, color, and yield Honors and awards:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Jianyu Li
Jianyu's background is in field and indoor strawberry production. Jianyu is interested in dynamic environmental control in CEA. |
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Protiva Das
With a background in food science, Protiva is adding untargeted metabolomics to several projects in the lab. Her interests also lie in elicitors to improve volatile compounds in crops including culinary herbs. |
Technicians/Aids
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Nathan Wade
Greenhouse Research Technician |
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Andrew Armstrong
Research Aid |
Undergraduate Students
Mckayla Martin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Biochemistry
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Biochemistry
Antigone Kellenberger
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Anthropology and BCMB
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Anthropology and BCMB
Rudy Webb
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Double Major: Music and Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Double Major: Music and Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology
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Jordan Kozlin
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Chemical Engineering |
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Julianne Dodson
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Science |
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Scarlett Nelson
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology |
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Emily Bearden
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology |
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Cindy Tan
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology |
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Sydni Potter
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Abigail Stem
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: |
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Kaylee Wayda
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Geology |
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Susan Scriven De Dragon
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology |
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Heather Whited
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Agricultural Education |
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Brai Clark
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Political Science and Philosophy |
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Breanna Larson
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biosystems Engineering |
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Sarah Garner
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Economics |
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Tim Lay
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Siena Jobkar
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: Successive harvests of leafy greens Honors and awards:
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Sarah Drake
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Annie Edmisten
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: To be determined! |
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Kyle Robbins
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Julia Pope
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Science Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: Light Intensity Affects Biomass and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Microgreens Honors and awards:
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Kayla O'Mary
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: The influence of light intensity on micro-mini tomatoes in a vertical farm Honors and awards:
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J Mcphail
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Mackayla Lindsay
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Joshua Suydam
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Jenna Tyminski
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Environmental Sciences |
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Maggie Whittington
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: Characterizing the role of nutrient disorders on beneficial plant phytonutrients Honors and awards:
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Hannah Schmidt
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Environmental and Soil Sciences and Anthropology |
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Jessica Myers
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Kathleen Coffman
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: End of production lighting influences kale water soluble vitamins. Project: Effects of dry humic products when amended with soilless media on the growth of tomato. Currently a PhD Student in the joint UT- ORNL Bredesen Center in Energy. Science and Engineering |
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William (Griff) Hagen
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: Planting density: A potentially underutilized tool to alter yield and quality in hydroponic production Honors and awards:
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Dustin Del Moro
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Sustainable Landscape Design Project: Leveraging dynamic environmental control to increase lettuce yield and quality **Designed the lab logo. Check it out on the home page! Honors and awards:
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William Smith
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Biotechnology and Genetics Project: The influence of daily light integral on lettuce phytonutrients - a project in conjunction with the Owen Lab at Ohio State University https://news.ca.uky.edu/article/rivalry-aside-uk-and-ut-undergrads-study-hydroponic-lettuce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hEntZLW3w Honors and awards:
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Kaylei Malone
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Science Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Caroline Fort
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Economics Currently a PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University. |
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Akela Martin
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Environmental and Soil Science Project: Sowing density of hydroponically grown parsley and cilantro |
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Maria Bridges
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Lauren Carver
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: Sowing density of hydroponically grown sage and mint Currently works at the UT gardens. |
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Evan Nease
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: The influence of end-of-production light intensity on water-soluble vitamins of kale grown indoors. |
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Lauren Little
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science Project: The influence of superelevated carbon dioxide and light intensity during mizuna propagation on subsequent greenhouse production. Honors and awards:
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Hannah Claflin
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Forensic Science |
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Becca Henegar
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Menachem Leib Smolianski
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Science Currently an intern with the National Park Service. |
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Rose Dever
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Yuka Kawata
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology Currently works at Vanderbilt Medical Center. |
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Maddie Spradley
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology Currently works at Vanderbilt Medical Center. |
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Saydie Hillis
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences Concentration: Horticulture Production and Science |
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Brian Dooley
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Biology |
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Tyler Ellison
Undergraduate Research Assistant Major: Plant Sciences |