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	Dr. Keiko Torii Principal Investigator Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation She is the lab head. The extreme coffee addict, dedicates her life for exciting Arabidopsis research!
	Dr. Jin Suk Lee Postdoctoral Researcher NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Jin Suk earned his Ph.D. in Dr. Brian Ellis' lab at UBC, where she identified the targets of MAPK phosphatases in plant hormonal and environmental stress signaling. In the Torii lab, Jin Suk studies ligand-receptor interactions and signal transduction specifying stomatal patterning via cross-desciplinary biochemistry and materials engineering approaches.
	Dr. Robin Horst Postdoctoral Researcher DFG Postdoctoral Fellow Robin earned is Ph.D. in Dr. Uwe Sonnewald’s lab at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He studied the physiology of the pathogenic interaction between the smut fungus Ustilago maydis and its host maize by employing transcript and metabolite profiling and physiological techniques. In the Torii lab, Robin is taking a large-scale biology approach to understand regulatory networks driving stomatal differentiation.
	Kylee Peterson Graduate Student, Biology NSF Graduate Research Fellow Kylee is working on a microarray project to decipher molecular signatures that represent stomatal stem cell state. Further more, she is developing a time-lapse, live imaging technique to study dynamics of cell-cell interactions during stomatal development.
	Dr. Marketa Hnilova Guest postdoc; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
	Dr. Christian Burr Postdoctoral Researcher Christian earned her Ph.D. in Dr. Sarah Liljegren's lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she worked on the roles membrane trafficking and receptor kinase signaling plays in plant development.
	Jacqueline Garrick Lab Manager/Research Scineitist Assistant (Tech) Jacqueline (Jackie) is a Research Scientist Assistant in the Torii lab; she graduated from the University of Arizona in 2010 with a B.S. in Veterinary Science. She worked in a Molecular and Cellular Biology lab during her undergraduate career and in an Immunobiology lab after graduation. She loves animals and especially enjoys spending time with her cat, Piglet.
	Benjamin To Research Scineitist Assistant (Tech) Benjamin is a Research Scientist Assistant; he earned his BS in Biochemistry and Biology with minors in Microbiology and Chemistry at the University of Washington in 2011. He did undergraduate research in the Imaizumi lab.
	Janet Dahl HHMI Lab Manager/Undergraduate Lab Assistant Janet is currently working as an undergraduate lab manager in the Torii Lab supported through HHMI. She is a junior at the UW, majoring in Biology: Physiology and her favorite hobby is baking.
	Vasal Mahanian Undergraduate Lab Assistant Vesal is currently working as a laboratory assistant in the Torii Lab. She is a senior at UW, majoring in Biology: Physiology. During her free time, she enjoys playing piano and guitar.
	David Borota Undergraduate Lab Assistant David is currently working as a laboratory assistant in the Torii Lab. He is a junior at UW, majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and photography.
	Mari Torii-Karch Special lab volunteer Mari is the youngest member of the Torii lab. She loves art, music, and Pipetman tip packing!

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