Personnel

Current Group Members
Carolyn Lawrence

(at left is Evelyn Hiatt)
Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS and MaizeGDB Director

Trained as a plant evolutionary cellular biologist, I am interested in how plants segregate their chromosomes and in finding novel ways to store, link, and analyze data to enable research. For more information, see my CV.
Darwin Campbell

lurks in
corn fields
MaizeGDB Database Administrator

Darwin is able to do just about anything! Not only is he an excellent DBA, he also is a craftsman with wood and is in the process of building his own home!
Alumni
Von Mark Cruz

Postdoctoral Associate

Led the lab effort for the Plant Genome Research Outreach to Native Americans program in 2006. Von Mark, an outstanding teacher and researcher, is now a researcher at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. His CV (circa September 2006) can be viewed here, and Von Mark can be reached via email.
  Joan Peterson

Postdoctoral Associate

Led the lab effort for the Plant Genome Research Outreach to Native Americans program in 2007. Joan now works for BASF in Ames, Iowa.
Trent Seigfried

AKA the Jolly Green Giant
MaizeGDB Bioinformatics Engineer

Trent is a web developer and programmer. He also is an excellent writer, and tells marvelous stories.