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Lee Hickey
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Plant breeding technologies
Trait discovery and value
Drought adaptation
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OUR TEAM
Innovators in multidisciplinary crop research
LABORATORY LEADER
Lee Hickey, Associate Professor
Innovation in plant breeding
POSTDOC
Dr Samir Alahmad
Improving root systems of durum wheat
PhD STUDENT
Yichen Kang
Identifying traits to increase durum yield
PhD STUDENT
Yasmine Lam
Genome editing branching genes in sorghum and barley
PhD STUDENT
Asad Amin
Adapting bread wheat to drought
PhD STUDENT
Shanice Van Haeften
Increasing the productivity of mungbean
PhD STUDENT
Sana Khan
Developing efficient genome editing systems for barley
PhD STUDENT
Dipika Roy
Improving spot blotch resistance in barley
PhD STUDENT
Oluwaseun Akinlade
Investigating genomic selection strategies in chickpea
PhD STUDENT
Charlotte Rambla
Modifying root systems of elite wheat varieties
PhD STUDENT
Brendan Fu
Developing new breeding tools for banana
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Dilani Gamaralalage
Mining new sources of disease resistance from gene banks
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Sarah Van Der Meer
Investigating the relationship between root and shoot development
PhD STUDENT
Zac Aldiss
Engineering barley roots
PhD STUDENT
Judith Eglitis
Harnessing epigenomics for crop improvement
PhD STUDENT
Caitlin Dudley
Understanding flowering behavior of mungbean
MASTERS STUDENT
Maggie Zhang
Understanding the genetics of root traits in barley