Lina Lopez
Technician
Lina joined the research group of Dr. James Schnable in June 2022 as a Research Technologist. She completed her master’s degree in Agricultural and Natural Resource Management where she specialized in population genetics, working with wild species to explore genetic interactions based on biotic and abiotic factors. Her undergraduate degree was in agricultural engineering from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. In addition, she gained experience as a research assistant, working on the establishment of in vitro tissue cultures of the raspberry plant in adult individuals. She experimented with genetic transformation using bacteria in Agave and Tobacco cultivation, as well as genetic transformation with CRISPR-cas9. She developed a set of high molecular weight DNA extractions for GBS sequencing for 6 different crops and numerous species within crops (vanilla, bean, agave, raspberry, papaya, and avocado). As well as RNA for the generation of transcriptomes.
Recent Publications
- (2025) Assessing the impact of yield plasticity on hybrid performance in maize. Physiologia Plantarum doi: 10.1111/ppl.70278 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2025.01.21.634104
- (2025) Plot-level satellite imagery can substitute for UAVs in assessing maize phenotypes across multistate field trials. Plants Planet People doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10613 agriRxiv doi: 10.31220/agriRxiv.2024.00251
- (2025) Off-the-shelf image analysis models outperform human visual assessment in identifying genes controlling seed color variation in sorghum. The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.70013 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.07.22.604683
- (2024) Population level gene expression can repeatedly link genes to functions in maize. The Plant Journal doi: 10.1101/2023.10.31.565032 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.10.31.565032