People

Current Lab Members:

  • Matthew Gilbert (Principal Investigator - Associate Professor and Associate Agronomist of Whole Plant Physiology in the Agricultural Experimental Station) 
    Matthew at Montgomery Woods
  • Mickie Tang (PhD Ecology Graduate Group, 2022-; co-advised with Emily Meineke) 
    Mickie portrait

Mickie is originally from Sacramento, CA and joined the Graduate Group in Ecology in 2020. Before coming to UC Davis, she earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz in 2013. As part of the Meineke and Gilbert labs, Mickie is studying how urban plants are responding to heat, and she is excited to use her hometown as a field site for her research. Her other interests include eating good food, camping, and photography.

  • Chris Wong (Post-doc on collaborative USDA Bean grant 2020-)
Chris in bean field

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past lab members:

  • Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt (Esau Post-Doctoral Fellow; find out more here https://gtrancourt.gitlab.io)
  • Heather Vice (Masters, 2019; also worked with Tom Buckley)
  • Isabel Hernandez (PhD, 2019)
  • Viviana Medina (PhD, 2016)
  • Nicolas Bambach (PhD 2016; co-advised with K.T. Paw U)
  • Lifeng Han (Masters, 2013; co-advised with Heiner Lieth)

Undergraduate interns:

These folk deserve a particularly honorable mention.

Matthew: “Can you help me …dig a hole…wield and auger…come back at predawn…make 256 of these…lug a LICOR…carry the BeanOCart…avoid that spider/wasp…keep up with Vivi [at +100F, in the sun]?”

They uniformly answered: “Sure thing…my spider bite is recovering nicely“, or “Yes, I want to do a PhD so that I can do more of this.”

  • Alexander Simon (2023)
  • Changrun Tian, Amelia Oxarart, Kayli OHara Vest, Chet Lin, Micah Di Nicola, Robert Stone (2021-2023) 
  • Rochelle Deriquito, Sarah Lam, Sam Roth (2020-2021; we published this https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-69.3.252)
  • Sam Koehler, Traci Bond (2016-2017)
  • Fangyi Wang (2016-2017; pursued MS and PhD at UC DAvis)
  • Rafael Carlesso Aita (2015)
  • Jessica Orozco (2014; now a PhD student UC Davis)
  • Maggie Hsung (2014-2015; now a PhD student U Tokyo)
  • Jessica Okutsu (2013; went on to do an MS in aquatic toxicology)

Past and Present Collaborators:

  • Tom Buckley
  • Gerardo Spinelli
  • Jorge Berny – UC Davis (CA)
  • Paul Gepts – UC Davis (CA)
  • Missy Holbrook – Harvard University (MA)
  • Maciej Zwieniecki – UC Davis (CA)
  • Chris Muir (U British-Colombia)
  • Lawren Sack – UCLA (CA)
  • Brad Ripley – Rhodes University (South Africa)
  • Colin Osborne – Sheffield University (UK)
  • Tom Buckley – University of Sydney (Australia)
  • Tom Sinclair – NCSU (NC)