
Dr. Li Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
4303 Miller Plant Science Bld
120 Carlton St.
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: 706-542-2209
Email: LI.YANG1@uga.edu

Carter James Newton (PhD Graduate Student)
Email: Carter.Newton@uga.edu

Yun Fan Stephanie Chen (Lab technician)
Email: YunFan.Chen@uga.edu

Dawei Xu (Postdoc)
Email: Dawei.Xu@uga.edu

Feng Kong (Postdoc)
Email: Feng.Kong@uga.edu

Neha Thakur (Postdoc)
Email: Neha.Thakur@uga.edu

Joseph Michael Balem (Lab technician)
Email: Joseph.balem@uga.edu
Undergraduate Students
Mariah Lee Arnold, undergraduate assistant
Cindy Zheng, undergraduate assistant
Naija Jimenez, undergraduate assistant
Kamilah Kannan, undergraduate assistant
Charlotte Weeks, undergraduate assistant
Former Lab Members
Margarita Ramirez, REEU Student, Summer 2022
Niharika Singareddy, undergraduate assistant, 2021
Luke Barrett, undergraduate assistant, 2021
Isabella Rose Jackson, undergraduate assistant, 2021
Natalie Miller, undergraduate assistant, 2021-2022
Aishat Bukola Lawal, undergraduate assistant, 2019
Jeongin Lee, undergraduate assistant, 2019
Nicole Wiley, undergraduate assistant, Summer 2019
Riya Gehani, undergraduate assistant, Fall 2019
Madalene Ison, undergraduate assistant, Fall 2019-Spring 2021
Annie Liu, Student Worker, 2018-2019
Jaimie Seymour, REEU Student, Summer 2018
Hanna Yi, Student Worker, 2018-2019
Henry Huang, Young Scholar Program, Summer 2019
Lanxi Hu (PhD Graduate Student, 2018-2023)
Sorrel Tran (PhD Graduate Student, 2018-2023)
Andy Zhang, undergraduate assistant
Wendy Zheng, undergraduate assistant
Alan Peper (PhD Graduate Student)
Lucy Fisher, Biology undergraduate from UGA, 09/2020-05/2021:
Jennifer Tylor, Biology undergraduate from UGA, under REEU, 06/2019-07/2019:
Endea Smith, undergraduate assistant
Sheena An Lim, undergraduate assistant
Ashley Dey, undergraduate assistant
Tiffany Huang, undergraduate assistant