Graduate Students
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Katelyn Baldino | Contact person by email |
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Harrison Bell | Contact person by email |
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Trenton Berrian | Contact person by email |
Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Theodora Borland | Contact person by email |
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Zachary Bright Graduate Students |
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Computational biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, computer science
Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Rachel Brunner Graduate Students |
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PhD: Ecology |
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Rene Burk Graduate Student (recent graduate 12/2020) |
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MAIS in Botany and Plant Pathology, Anthropology and Geography |
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Nicholas Carleson | Contact person by email | BioResource Research, PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Adam Carson | Contact person by email |
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Stephanie Chase | Contact person by email |
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Daniella Echeverria | Contact person by email |
Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Daniel Fager | Contact person by email |
Comparing high throughput sequencing and bioassay indexing for the detection of viruses in strawberry and Rubus crops.
Master of Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Harrison Flieg | Contact person by email |
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Kyle Gervers Graduate Students |
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PhD: Mycology |
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Katherine Gray | Contact person by email |
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Leslie Harris | Contact person by email |
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Tanner Jefferson Graduate Students |
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Kameron Kilday Faculty Research Assistant |
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Sarah Lowder | Contact person by email |
My projects involve developing rapid sampling techniques to monitor fungicide resistance in Erysiphe necator, the causal agent of grape powdery mildew, and using those methodologies to investigate trends in the frequency of resistance alleles on a much larger scale than previously...
Ph.D.: Plant Pathology |
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Shawn McMurtrey | Contact person by email |
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Julia Metzler Graduate Students |
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Botany, Native Plants, Restoration Ecology
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Kyle Mondron Graduate Students |
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In the broadest sense, I am interested in host-microbe interactions and fungal biology. I'm driven by questions regarding how organisms interact, particularly at molecular and genetic scales. My research on the bacterial symbionts living within the fungal cells of early-diverging fungi in the...
Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Sebastian Mortimer | Contact person by email |
My interests are botany, systematics, and molecular evolution. At OSU, I am studying sex chromosome evolution in wild strawberries (Fragaria) and the ecological consequences of sex chromosome turnover.
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Abigail Neat | Contact person by email |
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Lester Nunez Ro... | Contact person by email |
Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Savannah Phipps | Contact person by email |
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Carolina Pina Paez | Contact person by email |
PhD: Mycology |
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Conner Rogan | Contact person by email |
PhD: Microbiology |
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Maria Jose Rome... | Contact person by email |
I am currently isolating foliar fungal epiphytes and endophytes from Populus trichocarpa. Previously, I studied the ecology of root associated dark septate endophyte of the Darksidea genus and the description of a novel Darksidea lineage. I am also interested in...
Mycology, Plant Pathology |
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Diana Ruggiero | Contact person by email |
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Gabriel Sacher | Contact person by email |
PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Brandon Stairs | Contact person by email |
Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Hannah Suli | Contact person by email |
Mycology, Forest Pathology
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Kimberly Syring | Contact person by email |
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Melissa Vergara | Contact person by email |
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Michele Wiseman | Contact person by email |
I have recently transitioned from a full time SFRA to a PhD student. My PhD project will be focused on the characterizing the mlo gene family in hop, with specific interest in mlo genes that have powdery mildew interactions. On-going research from my time as an SFRA... |
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Alexander Wong Graduate Students |
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Improving characterization and integrative pest management practices to mitigate fungicide resistance in grape Powdery Mildew and Botrytis.Development of high throughput assay to rapidly characterize fungicide resistance phenotypes to multiple fungicide classes. The use of UV-C light as a...
PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Jessie Zimmerman Graduate Students |
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MS in Botany and Plant Pathology |
Former Student
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Rachel Baschieri | Contact person by email |
I am interested in studying gene expression and hormone and metabolite translocation during panicle development of the determinate grass species, Sorghum bicolor. I will employ transcriptomics, metabolomics, and computational prediction and modeling methods to understand the genes and...
Botany, Horticultural Sciences Major Professor: Samuel Leiboff |
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Alexander Bippus | Contact person by email |
PhD: PaleoBotany Major Professor: Gar Rothwell, Major Professor: Ruth Stockey |
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Hazel Daniels | Contact person by email |
PhD: Plant Pathology Major Professor: Jared LeBoldus |
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Dustin Gannon | Contact person by email |
PhD: Ecology Major Professor: Frank Andrew Jones |
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Sabrina Heitmann | Contact person by email |
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Adrienne Kovasi | Contact person by email |
I am interested in all things lichen biomonitoring and ecology related. Currently studying new lichen biomonitoring tools for monitoring nitrogen deposition high elevation tree-less wilderness areas. Masters in Botany |
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Ishika Kumbhakar | Contact person by email |
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Ryan Lenz | Contact person by email |
PhD: Plant Pathology Major Professor: Jared LeBoldus |
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Jiang Liu Postdoctoral Scholar |
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PhD: Plant Pathology Major Professor: Christopher Mundt |
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Megan O Malley | Contact person by email |
PhD: Microbiology Major Professor: Jeff Anderson |
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Michelle Soule | Contact person by email |
I am developing a multiplex hydrolysis probe qPCR to detect and quantify Meloidogyne hapla and Meloidogyne chitwoodi. These two root-knot nematodes species are important to Pacific Northwest potato production.
Master's Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Nematology Major Professor: Inga Zasada |
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Ian Trautman AW-Slrd: Fac Res Assist |
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