Laboratory Members

Principal Investigator

Isgouhi Kaloshian, Ph.D.

Professor of Nematology


Phone: (951) 827-3913
Email: isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu

Isgouhi obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She obtained her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from University of California Riverside, where she identified and mapped a root-knot nematode resistance gene in a wild relative of wheat. She completed two postdoctoral research appointments, the last one at UC Davis, where she was involved in cloning the first nematode resistance gene Mi-1. At UC Davis, she discovered that the Mi locus in tomato also conferred resistance to potato aphids.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jiangman He

Ph.D. in Genetics
Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology,
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Chinese academy of sciences
e-mail: jiangman@ucr.edu
Dongmei Zhou

Ph.D. in Microbiology
Nanjing Agricultural University

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

Damaris Godinez-Vidal

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology
Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados

Graduate Student

Jacob MacWilliams

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
email: jmacw001@ucr.edu

Undergraduate Students

Katie Hamrick

Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Honors Program
email: khamr002@ucr.edu
Luis J. Santiago