Horticulture: Personnel
Postdoctoral Associates
Yihua Chen
Postdoctoral Associate
yhchen@uga.edu
Yihua Chen joined the Department of Horticulture, UGA in April, 2009. He is working with Dr. Dayton Wilde. His work is focused on the genetic manipulation of flowering characters of ornament plants.
Ye (Juliet) Chu
Postdoctoral Associate
ychu@uga.edu
Dr. Ye (Juliet) Chu is a Postdoctoral Associate. Her current project activities include transgenic peanut resistant to tomato spotted wilt virus, molecular markers for nematode resistance, and peanut allergen gene expression. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Foods and Nutrition. Dr. Chu is a member of the Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta.
Research interests – Improve peanut resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus by genetic transformation; identify nematode resistance markers in peanut; characterize and silence peanut allergen genes.
Moukaram Tertuliano
Postdoctoral Associate
m_tertuliano@yahoo.com
Weiguang Yi
Postdoctoral Associate
abeyi@uga.edu
I am a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Hazel Wetzstein. My research focuses on health benefit evaluation and plant physiological study of medicinal/culinary herbs and pomegranate.