Plant Physiology at UL Lafayette

Welcome to the Hasenstein Lab Page!

The Crew (Graduate Students):

Min Chen [Ph.D.]
Joy Young [Ph.D.]

Roseline Devariste [MS]
Rod Harris [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