Principal Investigator

Wolfgang Busch
Professor
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
Integrative Biology Laboratory
Postdoctoral Fellows

Min Cao
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yintong Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow

Sanghwa Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ashish Rajurkar
Postdoctoral Fellow

Matthieu Platre
Postdoctoral Fellow

Charlotte Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow
Managers & Specialists

Justin Allen
Soil Specialist

Erin Daniels
Lab Coordinator



Kristen Wertz
Lab Coordinator
Research Assistant

Ian Anderson
Research Assistant II


Lukas Brent
Research Assistant II


Charles Copeland
Research Assistant I
Charles received his Bachelor’s in Geosciences from Princeton University in 2020, developing a passion for thinking about agriculture in the context of climate change. While there he used plant photosynthesis and hydrology model simulations to explore the dynamics of succulent plant water storage in stochastic rainfall scenarios. Charles joined the Busch lab in December 2020 as part of HPI’s plant phenotyping team. He is excited to help identify genes useful to carbon sequestration and developing climate-resilient crops by measuring root traits across diverse plant collections. Outside of work he enjoys gardening, hiking and snorkeling.?

Signe Dahlberg-Wright
Research Assistant II




Lauren Ragel
Research Assistant I


Emily Shane
Research Assistant I
Emily Shane received her B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis in June 2020 in Biological Sciences with a minor in Spanish. During her time at UC Davis, she worked in the Kliebenstein Plant Genomics lab assisting with research into glucosinolate production and root architecture as well as her own independent project studying hormones in ?Arabidopsis thaliana.? Additionally, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Gold Molecular Paleobiology lab using bioinformatics to study ?Cnidaria ?phylogenetics. She also worked at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory performing horticultural work with hundreds of tropical and native plant species. Emily also has a passion for animal sciences and conservation. She is a social media coordinator for Orphan Kitten Project and has volunteered with the California Raptor Center at UC Davis, assisting with rehabilitation of birds of prey. She joined HPI at the Salk Institute in November 2020 working at the Encinitas Greenhouse on the phenotyping team.


Michel Ruiz
Research Assistant III

Gonzalo Villarino
Research Assistant III
Lab Technicians


Matias Gleason
Lab Technician II





Ling Zhang
Bioinformatics Analyst II
Interns



Kane Wu
Lab Assistant
