Affiliation: Howard University

Arif Ashraf is a plant cell biologist and his lab studies cell division using Arabidopsis thaliana and Zea mays as model systems. He obtained his PhD from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Japan (2014-2019) and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2019-2023). He started his own lab at Howard University in the fall of 2023.