Sunil Kenchanmane Raju
Education
- PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding (Plant Breeding and Epigenetics)
- Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Duration: 2012 – 2017
- Key Activities:
- President, Agronomy and Horticulture Graduate Student Association (AHGSA), 2016-17
- Vice-President, AHGSA, 2015-16
- Organizing Committee Chair, UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium, 2016 and 2017
- Organizing Committee Vice-Chair, UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium, 2014
- Student Ambassador, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2016 – Present
- Committee Member, AHGSA Women In Science Workshop, August 5, 2016
- Three-Week Course on “Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Sciences”
- Institution: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Year: 2015
- Key Learnings:
- Intensive overview of plant genetics, physiology, biochemistry, development, and evolution
- Hands-on experience with molecular, analytical, computational, and high-throughput approaches
- Exposure to cutting-edge experimental and computational techniques in plant research
Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Institution: New York University
- Duration: January 2023 – Present (1 year 8 months)
- Location: New York City Metropolitan Area (On-site)
- Lab: Ken Birnbaum lab
- Focus: Comparative single-cell genomics to understand stress resilience in crops
- Skills: Molecular & Cellular Biology, Computational Biology
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Institution: Michigan State University
- Duration: March 2018 – January 2023 (4 years 11 months)
- Location: East Lansing, Michigan
- Lab: Chad Niederhuth lab
- Focus: Comparative epigenomics to understand gene expression and evolution across angiosperms
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Duration: January 2012 – March 2018 (6 years 3 months)
- Labs:
- Sally Mackenzie lab:
- Focus: MSH1-derived non-genetic variation in soybean improvement, Epigenomic plasticity in Arabidopsis under cold stress
- James Schnable lab:
- Focus: Comparative genomics to uncover low-temperature tolerance in grasses
- Sally Mackenzie lab: