People & Collaborators

Research team structure, collaborators, staff, trainees, and alumni.

Principal Researcher

Kidanemaryam Wagaw Reta

Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Metabolomics and Physiology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Research focus: crop stress physiology, plant metabolomics, multi-omics integration, root-shoot interactions, UAV thermal phenotyping, and predictive modeling for climate-resilient crop performance.

Staff

  1. Technician 1: Physiology, metabolomics, and sample-processing support.
  2. Research Assistant 1: Field trials, greenhouse experiments, and data-management support.

Postdoc

  1. Postdoctoral Researcher 1: Plant metabolomics and stress physiology.
  2. Postdoctoral Researcher 2: Remote sensing, thermal phenotyping, and predictive modeling.

PhD Students

  1. PhD Student 1: Rootstock-mediated grapevine stress responses.
  2. PhD Student 2: Multi-omics integration and network analysis.
  3. PhD Student 3: Heatwave physiology and varietal performance.

MSc Students

  1. MSc Student 1: Metabolomics-assisted trait discovery.
  2. MSc Student 2: Root and shoot phenotyping under abiotic stress.

Undergraduate Students

  1. Undergraduate Student 1: Field phenotyping and data collection.
  2. Undergraduate Student 2: Laboratory sample preparation and data curation.

Alumni

  1. Alumni 1: Crop physiology and phenotyping.
  2. Alumni 2: Plant breeding and multi-environment trial analysis.
  3. Alumni 3: Metabolomics and molecular phenotyping.