Lab Alumni

Former Postdoctoral Scholars & Staff

Genesis Oseguera: Former Lab Manager/Lab Assistant III. Pursuing a nursing degree.  
Liping Zeng: Accepted a position as a Bioinformatician with the County of Riverside. 
Heeseung Choi: Accepted an industry position in Korea. 
Mien van de Ven: Former Lab Manager/Lab Research Supervisor II. Enjoying retirement.
Jinzheng Wang: Postdoctoral scholar in the Dehesh lab from 2014-2016 at UC Davis and from 2016-2022 at UCR. Accepted a position as a Plant Scientist at a Biotechnology company.
Maha Chieb: Postdoctoral scholar from France (2021).
Haiyan Ke: Former assistant specialist. Accepted a position in the UCR Metabolomics Core.
Jishan Jiang: Professor at China Agricultural University.
Cecilia Rodriguez-Furlan: Accepted a postdoctoral position at UC Riverside.
Amancio José de Souza: Coordinator of the UCR Metabolomics Core 
Mark Lemos
Changquan Wang: Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Yanmei Xiao 
Venkat Kolla: Worked on the starch to oil project. 
Daniel Hayden: Accepted a position as a Scientist at Complete Genomics.
Hiromi Tajima: Accepted a postdoctoral position at UC Davis. 
Wassim Chehab: Accepted a position as a Research Scientist at Rice University. 
Roy Kaspi: Accepted a position as a Principal Investigator with the Israel Agriculture Agency. 
Zhiyong Zhang: Accepted a position as a Senior Scientist at Hendrick Seeds. 
Giriga Raman
Masa-Aki Oto: Accepted a position as a Scientist at Mendel Biosciences. 

Former Graduate & Undergraduate Students

Former Graduate Students
Tyler Inskeep: Began Ph.D. studies in the Dehesh lab from 2021-2023 and continuing work in another UCR lab. 
Mark Lemos: Graduated in 2018. 
Angela Reinert
Geoffrey Benn: Accepted a position as the BIS2C Academic Coordinator at UC Davis after completing his Ph.D.
Marta Bjornson: Accepted a postdoctoral position in the Cyril Zipfel lab at The Sainsbury Laboratory after completing her Ph.D. 
Cade Guthrie
Justin Walley: Accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. 
Alexandria Salazar: Accepted a position performing lipidomics work at a biotech company after completing her M.S. 

Former Undergraduate Students
Ahmed Muhtadi: RISE Summer Program, 2024. Undergraduate Researcher, 2024-2025. Worked with Jingzhe. 
Mohamed Ahmed: Undergraduate Researcher, 2025. Worked with Jingzhe. 
Taran Kermani: REU Summer Program, 2025. Worked with Jingzhe. 
Pablo Arias: RISE Summer Program, 2025. Worked with Fernanda. 
Maylin Reyes: Undergraduate Lab Assistant, 2023-2025. Worked with Mien. 
Jonathan Wu: RISE Summer Program, 2023. Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2025. Worked with Jingzhe.
Sydnee Te’o: High School Volunteer Researcher, 2024-2025. Worked with Genesis. 
Melanie Quintana: Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2025. Worked with Jingzhe. 
Stephen Javier: RISE Summer Program, 2024. Worked with Heeseung. 
Emily Snyder: REU Summer Program, 2024. Worked with Evan. 
Inigo Redondo Pajaron: Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2024. Worked with Heeseung. 
Matthew Part: REU Summer Program, 2023. Volunteer Researcher, 2024. Worked with Heeseung.
Marco de la Torre: REU Summer Program, 2022. Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant, 2022-2023. Worked with Heeseung, Jinjin, Jingzhe, and Mien. Began Ph.D. studies in the Jozwiak lab at UCR.  
Brandon Ta: Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2024. Worked with Jingzhe.
Brian Zhang: PERSIST Program. CNAS Scholar Summer Research Fellowship. Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2022. Accepted into graduate program in the UCR Biochemistry department. 
Farzaneh Talebi Liasi: Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant, 2019-2022. Worked with Mien. 
Chris Leong: Undergraduate Researcher, 2022. Worked with Evan.
Ronit Krovidi: UCR RISE Summer Program, 2021. 
Nathaniel Co: Undergraduate Researcher, 2020. Worked with Heeseung. 
Megan Hu: UCR RISE Summer Program, 2019. Worked with Jinzheng Wang. 
Jessalyn Yan: UCR RISE Summer Program, 2019. Worked with Liping Zeng. 
Dima Younes: Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2019. Worked with Jinzheng Wang. 
Nahal Khalkhali: UCR RISE Summer Program, 2018. Worked with Liping Zeng.
Srinija Maganti: UCR RISE Summer Program, 2018. Worked with Jinshan (Coral) Jiang.
Will Sauers: UCR Summer Program, 2018. Worked with Mien. Continued studies at University of Scranton. 

Former Visiting Students

Jinjin Li: Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Huazhong Agricultutal University. 
Adriana Brigido: Visiting Graduate Student. Returned to finish studies at National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. 
Hao Chen: Visting Postdoctoral Scholar, Zhejiang University, China.
Jinlong Guo: Visting Assistant Professor, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China.
Yaqi Wang: Visting Ph.D. candidate, Nanjing Agricultural University, China.
Jiubo Liang: Visiting Associate Professor, Southwest University, China. 
Gaoyang Zhang: Visiting Assistant Professor, Shangrao Normal University, China.
Haoqiang Yu: Visiting Ph.D. candidate, Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
Xiang He: Visiting Ph.D. candidate, Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
Jens Mühlenbeck: Visting Graduate Student, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster. 
Hongyu Liu: Returned to faculty position at Northeast Agricultural University, China​.
Panyu Yang: Visting Ph.D. candidate, China.
Mostafa Sarmast: Visiting Ph.D. candidate, Shiraz University, Iran. 
Yu Ni: Returned to faculty position at Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Ping Li: Returned to faculty position at Shanghai University, China.
Caihua Gao: Visiting Ph.D. candidate, Southwest University, China.
Zhou Huang: Returned to faculty position at Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
Liquan Zhu: Returned to faculty position at Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
XingShun Song: Returned to faculty position at Northern Forestry University, China.
Yanling Wang: Returned to faculty position at Xinjiang Agricultural University, China.