2019 Cohort
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Haley Larsen
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Haley Larsen is entering her fourth year as a Biochemistry student at the University of California, Riverside. She has a special interest in plant biology and thus is currently a research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Meng Chen in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UCR. The U-SPARC fellowship has helped her discover potential career pathways in agriculture to pursue after her graduation.
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Marina Ibrahim
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Marina Ibrahim is a third-year biology major at the University of California, Riverside. During her time in the U-SPARC fellowship, she worked to generate a TANGLED1 Arabidopsis mutant using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. She plans to phenotypically characterize these mutants and use them to identify enhancer mutations using a forward genetic approach.
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Veronica Botros
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Veronica Botros is a third year Biology major at the University of California Riverside. Throughout the U-SPARC fellowship, she has been using genetic approaches in order to clone Sorghum’s LGS1 gene in order to switch the strigolactone profile of cowpea. She has been working in Dr. Nelson’s lab and has learned an immense amount of biological techniques that she plans to use further.
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Lauren Harris
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Lauren Harris is a third year microbiology major at the University of California Riverside. She worked in the Van Norman Lab to clone orthologs of PLK1 in tomato and maize to determine their localization in Arabidopsis.
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Andrew Gomez
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Andrew Gomez is a fourth year Biochemistry major with an emphasis in Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Over the summer, he studied division plane orientation in Arabidopsis thaliana; specifically identifying interactors of the microtubule-binding protein, TAN1
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Diana Medina-Yerena
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Diana Medina-Yerena is a fourth-year student at the University of California Riverside. She is majoring in biochemistry with an emphasis on biology. Her current plan is to continue her education in order to further study host-pathogen interactions. Her research project in the Walling lab is focused on further characterizing the role of the protein leucine aminopeptidase-A in tomato plants.
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