Team

 

Dr. Elena Shpak

Principal investigator

 
 

Dr. Shpak obtained her M.S. degree from Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) and Ph.D. degree from Ohio University (Athens, OH). She became interested in ERECTA signaling as a postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle in the lab of Dr. Keiko Torii. Dr. Shpak established her lab at UTK in 2006.

   

 

Sophia Garcia

Muhammad uzair

Postdoctoral Fellow

Bertie Hopkins

Bri Herron

BCMB Graduate Student

 

 

Harriett Perry

SHPAK LAB 2024

Undergraduate students: Cody Griffin, Calen Paleologos, Christina Pierce, Natalie Aldrich, Adam Alexander, and Aubrey Powell

 

Lab alumni

Past Graduate Students

  • Daniel DeGennaro (PhD, 2021) Technical sales representative (BioRad)  
  • Liang Zhang (PhD, 2019) Postdoctoral fellow (University of Georgia, Athens)  
  • Pawel Kosentka (PhD, 2018) Postdoctoral Researcher, Bayer Crop Science  
  • Mark Bundy (M.S, 2012) Scientist (REGENXBIO Inc.) 
  • Alex Overholt (PhD, 2024) Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Past Postdocs

  • Rucha Karve  
  • Danyu Kong  
  • Ming-Kun Chen

Past Undergraduate Students

Spencer Willet, Lihan Deng, Patrick Ailey, Nathan Fusman, Lindsey Tarbox, Jincheng Du, Mark Bundy, Brandon Chase, William Howell, Jennifer Porter, Alaina Willet, Elizabeth Zoeller, Kyle Zanath, Jing Ma, Brandon Kee, Clark Sealy, Dino Francescutti, Marshall Collins, Jeremy Willhoite, Tyler Jackson, Kristen Vaugh, Mary McGuire, Olivia Thompson, Juwan Hamilton, William Carmack, Colton Norton, Binita Satpathy, Solange Perez, Yonas Simon, Kaylee Kotwis, Samantha Jones, Alexander Pope, Erica Moore, Richard Maradiaga, Emily Miller, Olivia Seay, Matthew Smith, Timothy Herman, Alisha Woodman, Omar Mitoubsi, Jameson Sorrels, Miguel Rodriguez, Josphat Kinyua, Doina Musat, Alex Overholt, Ronald Tran, Christal Lane, Neil Patel, Rachael DeBoe, Gabriel Parish, Elizabeth Baker, Heather Richards, Landon Carrel, Trey Klaas, Alexis Anthony, Isabella Dianconescu, Said Briseno, Cason Buehler, Erik Cazares, Kate Checuga, Bethany Lunsford, Mckenzie Reynolds, Griffin Rich, Andrew Alford, Paige Reymann, Katelyn Vanzant, Josephine Nyarko