Team
The Renner Lab group includes undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, who work together to understand the evolution of defense in plants and insects.
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Entomology
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Faculty
Graduate Students
Robert Witkowski
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology
rpw5414@psu.edu
Shuhan Yin
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology
Benedikt Nuesslein
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology
Shui Li Eu-Balint
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Former Personnel
Postdoctoral Fellows/Researchers
Kadeem Gilbert
USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University's W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.
Chloe Drummond
USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Postdoctoral researcher, now an incoming Assistant Professor at Lakehead University.
Graduate Students
Qianshi Lin
Adam Rork
Ph.D. Student - Entomology, next NSF PRFB fellow at Purdue University with Dr. Aaron Smith, and now a Research Associate in the Institute for Systems Genomics Computational Biology Core at U Conn.
Yunjia Liu
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology
yml5557@psu.edu, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UT Health San Antonio
Rotation Students
Rayanh Gutierrez
Ph.D. Student - Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences Rotation
Eleanna Vasquez Cerda
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology Rotation
Yuxin Luo
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology Rotation
Blue Riggins
M.S. Student - Entomology.
Sujay Paranjape
Ph.D. Student - Entomology, now exploring chemical ecology in Jared Ali's lab.
Savannah Anez
Ph.D. Student - Plant Biology Rotation
Naomi Perez
Ben Simonson
Undergraduate Researcher - Vet Med Science major, Entomology minor
Ph.D. Student - MCIBS Rotation
Undergraduate Students
Ella McDyre
Lily Sudol
Undergraduate Researcher - Animal Science
Undergraduate Researcher - Plant Sciences major, Entomology minor
Naomi Perez
Undergraduate Researcher - Vet and Biomed Sciences
Arthi Bala
Undergraduate Researcher - Biology, now in the Systems Medicine Masters program at Georgetown University.
Ian Chamberlain
Undergraduate Researcher - Plant Sciences
Adam Bettinger
Undergraduate Researcher - Plant Sciences, now a Medical Cannabis Cultivation Technician at Ayr Wellness Inc.
Elise Elizondo
Undergraduate Researcher - Plant Sciences, now an intern at The Land Institute.
John Fulginiti
Undergraduate Researcher - Geobiology, now a Geology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee.
Mark Porter
Undergraduate Researcher - Plant Sciences, now a Ph.D. student in the Plant Breeding program at the University of Florida.
Emma Longmire
Undergraduate Researcher - Biology, now studying at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Nicholas Elliott
Undergraduate Researcher - Biology, now a Ph.D. student in the The Committee on Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology (DRSB) program a the University of Chicago.
Zach Johnston
Undergraduate Researcher - Biology
Lab Technologists
Kylie Bocklund
Laboratory Technologist