Ashraf lab's number #1 priority is mentees' success. Here is a list of current and previous mentees; and their list of accomplishments.   

Here is Arif's blog post on mentoring


​Olivia Hazelwood:
  • Admitted as a graduate student of Botany program (Spring 2025) in the University of British Columbia.
  • Published first author Developmental Cell preview article.
  • Published first author review article in Quantitative Plant Biology journal.
  • Awarded prestigious NSF travel award to attend the Plant Cell Dynamics meeting at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
  • Oral presentation, Plant Cell Dynamics meeting, University of Wisconsin Madison.
  • Poster presentation at the Mid-Atlantic ASPB section meeting in the University of Maryland, College Park.

Thea Do:
  • Awarded very prestigious and competitive NSERC USRA (2025) to work with us at UBC. 

Grace Delpit:
  • Accepted to Undergraduate summer fellowship (2025), BTI, Cornell University.
  • Awarded prestigious mini-semester fellowship (2025) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
  • Awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) to work with Ashraf lab at Howard University.
  • Selected as Honors student, Biology department, Howard University. Only 11 students were awarded out of ~250 students of the cohort. 

Shayyaine Dallas:
  • Awarded very competitive mini-semester fellowship (2024) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
  • Poster presentation in the Plant Cell Dynamics meeting at the University of Wisconsin Madison. 

Calisa Myrie:
  • Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024), U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
  • Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024), BTI, Cornell University (*declined)
  • Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024), Michigan State University (*declined)

Erika Norris:
  • Summer intern, Charles Davis’s lab, Harvard University (2024).
  • UMass scholar CAFE scholar, Facette lab (Summer 2023) and presented poster.
  • Awarded prestigious UMass Dean’s Honors (2021–2023).
  • Received Theresa Biuso Maravelas Scholarship (2023).
  • Awarded UMass Chancellor’s Award (2021).

​Keita Ito:
  • Co-author in the Molecular Plant article.  
  • Currently pursing PhD at Iwate University, Japan.