PhD. The Pennsylvania State University, USA
MS. University of Wyoming, USA
BS. Kerala Agricultural University, India
Post Doc. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Post Doctoral Scholars
Dr. Sunil Aryal
Dr. Rahul Debnath (co-supervised with Dr. Justin George, USDA-ARS
Dr. KrishnaRao
Gandham
2023-2025; currently at NCAT
Graduate Students
Alejandro Vasquez (PhD Candidate; DDF Fellow)
Jessica Ayala (PhD Student; DAF Fellow; graduated with MS from lab in Fall 2024)
Insha Shafi (PhD Student- Co-Advised by Dr. Tzanetakis)
Devi Balakrishnan (PhD Candidate)
Manish Gautam (PhD Candidate; DAF Fellow)
Soumya Unnikrishnan (MS Student)
Jared Linn(PhD Student Co-advised)- Major Advisor: Dr. Nicolli
Deepak Dilip
Graduated with MS; Spring 2025
Adriana Peissel
Graduated with Honors Thesis; Spring 2025
Lab Alumni
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MS AESS (2019-2021)
PhD Student Virginia Tech
MS Biology (2018-2020)
PhD Student, U of Florida
MS Biology (2018-2020)
PhD Student, Clemson U.
MS Biology (2018-2020)
Urban Ecologist, City of Pharr
Sukhman Singh
Jesus Chavana
MS Biology (2019-2020)
Bayer Crop Science
MS Biology (2019-2021)
PhD Student (Penn State)
Zachary Johnson
TxDot Ecologist
Alejandro Vasquez
MS Biology (2021-2022)
PhD Student (U. Arkansas)
Jasleen Kaur
Mandeep Tayal
Lili Martinez
Ishveen Kaur
Cristina Raya
Sakshi Watts
B.S Biology-(2020)
PhD Student, UT Austin
MS Biology (2020-2021)
PhD Student, UC Riverside
Isabella Rodriguez
B.S. Biology
Vaquero Early MD Program
2022 Fall UTRGV lab
2022 Summer ASPB Workshop
X mas 2021
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Spring 2020
Summer 2019: Graduate and undergraduate students, and student volunteers.
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Summer 2018
