PhD. The Pennsylvania State University, USA
MS. University of Wyoming, USA
BS. Kerala Agricultural University, India
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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
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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
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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
