Sasan worked in the Lu lab as an undergraduate researcher for three years. He was involved in analyzing acd6-1 suppressors. He was a Meyerhoff scholar and also received the MARC award and undergraduate research award. He is coauthor for two papers published in the Lu lab. Sasan is currently a medical school student at UMB.

Timley was an AMB student and took on a project in the Lu lab to study several ACD6 homologs for their roles in regulating plant defense. She also participated in a genetic analysis of functional relationships among key defense regulatory genes.

Savana worked in the Lu lab first as an undergraduate researcher and then as a technician for about two and half years. She participated in several projects, including investigating salicylic acid-mediated defense signaling networks and studying the function of WIN3 in defense regulation. She also independently identified a novel gene responsible for programmed cell death in Arabidopsis, using the map-based cloning approach. Savana is currently working in a biotech company.

Rita received the Undergraduate Research Award to analyze the roles of PHT4;1 family members in regulating Arabidopsis defense.

Guoying led the NSF-funded project to characterize the role of PHT4;1 in regulating plant innate immunity.

Guangfeng led a project to investigate ways to manipulate defense signaling in citrus. He also worked on further characterizing the function of the WIN3 gene. His results showed that 1) WIN3 regulates broad disease resistance to both bacterial and fungal pathogens, 2) WIN3 acts additively with several defense regulators to affect salicylic acid-mediated defense, and 3) WIN3 and NPR1 play novel roles in regulating flowering time besides defense control. He is currently a postdoc at NC State University.

Jiangli was a visiting PhD student sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council and worked in the Lu lab for a year. She was involved in cloning several acd6-1 suppressor genes.

Stephanie worked in the Lu lab as an undergraduate researcher. She was a Meyerhoff Scholar and also received the MARC award and the undergraduate research award. She participated in a project to analyze the structure and function of the novel defense protein PHT4;1. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree at University of Washington.