Graduate Students

Graduate Students

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Nathan Bearden
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PI: Jared LeBoldus

Harrison Bell Contact person by email

PI: John Fowler Jr.

Trenton Berrian Contact person by email

PI: Aymeric Goyer


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Aymeric Goyer
Theodora Borland Contact person by email

PI: David Gent

Rachel Brunner
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PI: Thomas Kaye


PhD: Ecology
Major Professor: Thomas Kaye
Stephanie Chase Contact person by email

PI: Jared LeBoldus

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Graduate Fellow
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PI: Aymeric Goyer

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Graduate Fellow
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PI: Ken Frost

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I am a graduate student studying the interaction between soil microbial communities and soil-borne pathogens. I am advised by Dr. Ken Frost and co-advised by Dr. Hannah Rivedal. 


PI: Kenneth Frost


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Kenneth Frost , Major Professor: Hannah Rivedal
Daniel Fager Contact person by email

I am currently comparing high throughput sequencing and bioassay indexing for the detection of viruses in strawberry and Rubus crops using large sample sets.


PI: Dimitre Mollov


PhD Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Dimitre Mollov
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PI: Joseph Spatafora

Harrison Flieg Contact person by email

PI: John Fowler Jr.

Nicholas Francis Contact person by email

PI: Sam Leiboff

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PI: Andy Jones

Anupa Gaire
Graduate Research Assistant
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PI: Achala KC


Plant Pathology
Kyle Gervers
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PI: Joseph SpataforaPI: Posy Busby


PhD: Mycology
Major Professor: Joseph Spatafora , Major Professor: Posy Busby
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PI: Jessie Uehling

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PI: Jeremiah Dung

Leslie Harris Contact person by email

PI: Samuel Leiboff

Tanner Jefferson
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PI: Molly Megraw

Kameron Kilday
Faculty Research Assistant
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PI: Kenneth Johnson

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PI: Aaron Liston

Julia Metzler
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Botany, Native Plants, Restoration Ecology


PI: Linda Hardison


Major Professor: Linda Hardison
Kyle Mondron
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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...

PI: Jessie Uehling


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Jessie Uehling
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. 


PI: Aaron Liston


Major Professor: Aaron Liston
Abigail Neat Contact person by email

PI: Posy Busby

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PI: Inga Zasada


Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Inga Zasada
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Master of Science, Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Posy Busby , Major Professor: Christopher Mundt
Savannah Phipps
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PI: Inga Zasada


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Inga Zasada
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PI: Andy Jones

Conner Rogan Contact person by email

PI: Jeff Anderson


PhD: Microbiology
Major Professor: Jeff Anderson
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...

PI: Posy Busby


Mycology, Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Posy Busby
Diana Ruggiero
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PI: Samuel Leiboff

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Graduate Fellow

PI: Fletcher Halliday

Hannah Suli Contact person by email

Mycology, Forest Pathology


PI: Jared LeBoldus

Kimberly Syring
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Fungal genomics, metabolomics, physiology, and evolution



Ph.D. Mycology
Major Professor: Joseph Spatafora
Katherine Gray Contact person by email

PI: Dimitre Mollov

Melissa Vergara Contact person by email

PI: Posy Busby


Major Professor: Posy Busby
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PI: Michael Behrenfeld

Michele Wiseman Contact person by email

My career developmental aims are to 1) build interdisciplinary competencies and collaborations, 2) develop and utilize molecular and phenotyping tools for high-throughput investigation of etiological agents, 3) use these data to further our understanding of plant susceptibility to disease, 4)...

PI: David Gent


Major Professor: David Gent

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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
Alexander Bippus Contact person by email


PhD: PaleoBotany
Major Professor: Gar Rothwell, Major Professor: Ruth Stockey
Zachary Bright
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Computational biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, computer science


PI: Molly Megraw


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Molly Megraw
Nicholas Carleson Contact person by email

PI: Niklaus Grunwald


BioResource Research, PhD: Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Niklaus Grunwald
Adam Carson Contact person by email

PI: Jared LeBoldus

Hazel Daniels Contact person by email


PhD: Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Jared LeBoldus
Dustin Gannon Contact person by email


PhD: Ecology
Major Professor: Frank Andrew Jones
Sabrina Heitmann Contact person by email

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
Ishika Kumbhakar Contact person by email

Ryan Lenz Contact person by email


PhD: Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Jared LeBoldus
Megan O Malley Contact person by email


PhD: Microbiology
Major Professor: Jeff Anderson
Gabriel Sacher Contact person by email

PI: Jay Pscheidt


PhD: Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Jay Pscheidt
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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PI: Jessie Uehling


Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Jessie Uehling
Ian Trautman
AW-Slrd: Fac Res Assist

Jessie Zimmerman
Graduate Students
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PI: Posy Busby


MS in Botany and Plant Pathology
Major Professor: Achala KC, Major Professor: Posy Busby