{"id":189,"date":"2014-10-30T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:58:17","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Claudio Casola, PI (he\/him)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-if-no-js\"><a href=\"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2014\/10\/bigtree-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2014\/10\/IBC_Sofia_and_me-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2014\/10\/IBC_Sofia_and_me-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2014\/10\/IBC_Sofia_and_me-1024x906.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2014\/10\/IBC_Sofia_and_me.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Adekola Owoyemi, Ph.D student, ECCB graduate program<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adekola is investigating on the de novo gene evolution flowering plants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-697\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2022\/09\/Adekola-2-copy-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2022\/09\/Adekola-2-copy-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2022\/09\/Adekola-2-copy-1013x1024.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2022\/09\/Adekola-2-copy-1520x1536.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2022\/09\/Adekola-2-copy.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Morteza Razavi, Ph.D student, EEB interdisciplinary graduate program<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-663\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2021\/09\/DNGs_figure-copy-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2021\/09\/DNGs_figure-copy-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/casolalab\/files\/2021\/09\/DNGs_figure-copy.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morteza will join us in 2023 to study de novo gene and microprotein gene evolution in mammals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>ALUMNI<\/p>\n<p><i><u>Postdocs<\/u><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tomasz Koralewski, Postdoctoral Fellow &#8211; currently postdoc in Prof. William Grant in the ECCB Dept.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ian MacLachlan, Postdoctoral Fellow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graduate Students<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wiexi Zhu, MEPS Master student &#8211; currently Ph.D. student in the biostatistics program at UT Dallas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Habibul Islam, ESSM Master student &#8211; currently Research Assistant, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jingjia Li, ESSM Ph.D student<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shelby Landa, ECCB Master student<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Undergraduate students<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alejandro Tovar, Biology, LSAMP student<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney Bartlett, ESSM, Honor student<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aubrey Rinderknecht, VIBS, Honor student<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rotation Ph. D. students<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scott Pearson, Genetics<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Kinder, Genetics<\/p>\n<p>Angelina Bernardini, Genetics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudio Casola, PI (he\/him) Adekola Owoyemi, Ph.D student, ECCB graduate program Adekola is investigating on the de novo gene evolution flowering plants. 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