Pawlowski lab - lab members

Lab members:

	Chris Bozza Graduate student	B.S.: Rutgers University About Chris: Chris is a native of New Jersey. He came to Cornell as a graduate student in Plant Biology in 2004 and joined the Pawlowski lab in summer of 2005. His thesis project is on chracterization and cloning of DsyCS and SegII, two maize genes controlling homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis. Chris is the only person we know, who can multiply four-digit numbers without using a pen or a calculator.
	Patricia Eliasinski Undergradute student	About Patricia: Patricia comes from Long Island. She is a Cornell junior and started in the Pawlowski lab in the fall of 2007. In summer of 2008, Patricia was one of Cornell's Undergraduate Hughes Scholars. She studies natural variation in the recombination pathway in maize.
	Wojtek Pawlowski PI	M.S.: Agricultural University, Cracow, Poland Ph.D.: University of Minnesota Postdoc: University of California at Berkeley About Wojtek
	Arnaud Ronceret Postdoc	B.S.: University of Paris VII, France M.S.: University of Montpellier II, France Ph.D.: University of Perpignan, France About Arnaud: After living for several years in the south of France, Arnaud, in a moment of insanity in early 2005, decided to join the Pawlowski lab. He now works on the Phs1 gene in maize and Arabidopsis. In addition to a Ph.D., Arnaud holds an airplane private pilot license.
	Moira Sheehan Postdoc	B.S.: Virginia Tech Ph.D.: Cornell About Moira: An Irish-Polish hybrid, Moira comes from Buffalo, NY. She joined the Pawlowski lab in early 2006, after finishing her Ph.D. in the Brutnell lab at Cornell. She studies the function of the telomere bouquet in maize. In 2007, Moira was one of four contributors to the Nature Postdoc Journal.
	Gagan Sidhu Graduate student	B.S.: Punjab Agricultural University, India M.S.: Washington State University About Gagan: Gagan is a native of India. She joined the Pawlowski lab in the fall of 2006 as a graduate student in Plant Breeding and Genetics. She is exploring if and how chromatin structure affects homologous chromosome pairing in Arabidopsis. In addition, she studies evolution of recombination genes in maize. Gagan is an accomplished clothing designer.

Emeritus personnel:
	Kendra Hutchins Graduate student	B.S.: University of Massachusetts About Kendra: Kendra is graduate student in Plant Breeding. She did a rotation in the Pawlowski lab in spring/summer 2008, studying recombination in the heterochromatic B chromosomes in maize.
	Brandon Lemesh Undergradute student	About Brandon: Brandon was an undergraduate student in the lab from August 2006 to December 2007. He came to Cornell from the sunny San Mateo, CA. In the Pawlowski lab, he studied natural variation in the recombination pathway in maize.
	Peter Mettingly Summer intern	About Peter: Peter is a student at Dryden High School. In summer 2008, he was an intern in the Pawlowski lab as a part of the Cornell/BTI Plant Genome Research Outreach Program. He studied evolution of recombination genes in maize.
	Emily Pinto Summer intern	About Emily: Emily is a junior majoring in biology and Spanish at Emory University. In summer 2008, she was an intern in the Pawlowski lab as a part of the Cornell/BTI Plant Genome Research Outreach Program. Here, she was helping Chris in characterizing and cloning the SegII gene.
	Tomek Warzecha Visiting scientist	M.S.: Agricultural University, Cracow, Poland Ph.D.: Agricultural University, Cracow, Poland About Tomek: Tomek is a scientists at the Department of Plant Breeding, Agricultural University of Cracow in Poland. He was a visiting scientist in the Pawlowski lab from April to July 2008. He was involved in the project to examine variation in meiotic recombination proteins in a set of diverse maize inbreds.
	Jessica Szymaniak Technician	B.S.: University of Rochester About Jessica: Jessica was a technician in the Pawlowski lab from January 2005 to November 2006. She is now a student in the Genetics Counseling Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
	Junliang Zhao Visiting scientist	About Junliang: Junliang is a scientist at the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Science in China. He stayed in the Pawlowski lab from September 2006 to August 2007 as a Chinese government fellow.

Visitors:
	From September 24 to Spetember 28, 2007, we hosted Scott Boden and Wayne Crismani, Ph.D. students from the University of Adelaide, Australia. Scott and Wayne came here to learn how to do immunolocalization of meiotic proteins.

Joining the lab

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