Plant Physiology at UL Lafayette

Welcome to the Hasenstein Lab Page!

The Crew (Graduate Students):

Min Chen [Ph.D.]

Roseline Devariste [MS]
Susan John [MS]

Graduated and moved on:

Yinsheng Wan, Ph.D.
Elison Blancaflor, MS, Ph.D.
R. Paul Baker, Ph.D.
Nenggang Zhang, Ph.D.
Yongying Wang, Ph.D.
Min Liu, Ph.D.

Aruna Kilaru, Ph.D.
Ginger Ku, MS
Soledad Fuentes Ph.D.
Qiaojun Jin, Ph.D.
Yingchun Zhao Ph.D.

Former Post-docs:
Oleg Kuznetzov, Françoise Marga, Jerry He, Zhong Ma, Peter Scherp
Overview of our Research:

Gravitational Biology:

Our experiment on the lost Shuttle Columbia (STS-107).
Follow-up experiment on NASA's Zero-gravity plane
Application of High Gradient Magnetic Fields
Other topics:
  • Plant cytoskeleton
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  • Theobroma cacao L. (Self-incompatibility, Host-Pathogen interactions)
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  • Auxin transport during gravitropism
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  • Salinity effects in Iris hexagona - Phytohormone levels, distribution of osmolytes, and ion effects.
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  • Quantification of phytohormones by GC/MS
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  • Model system Thistle:

    •     Viscoelastic properties of the cell wall and cuticle.
        Mechano-transduction in Thistle staminal filaments