Graduate Students

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Nathan Bearden Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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 Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Thomas Kaye PhD: Ecology Major Professor: Thomas Kaye
Stephanie Chase	Contact person by email	PI: Jared LeBoldus
Keonny Cosek Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	PI: Aymeric Goyer
Madeleine Duong Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	PI: Ken Frost
Daniella Echeverria	Contact person by email	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
Daniel Farthing	Contact person by email	PI: Joseph Spatafora
Harrison Flieg	Contact person by email	PI: John Fowler Jr.
Nicholas Francis	Contact person by email	PI: Sam Leiboff
Joseph Gagne	Contact person by email	PI: Andy Jones
Anupa Gaire Graduate Research Assistant	Contact person by email	PI: Achala KC Plant Pathology
Kyle Gervers Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Joseph Spatafora , PI: Posy Busby PhD: Mycology Major Professor: Joseph Spatafora , Major Professor: Posy Busby
Andreas Guerrero	Contact person by email	PI: J essie Uehling
Grace Hardy Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	PI: Jeremiah Dung
Leslie Harris	Contact person by email	PI: Samuel Leiboff
Tanner Jefferson Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Molly Megraw
Kameron Kilday Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email	PI: Kenneth Johnson
Alexandria Kurowski	Contact person by email	PI: Aaron Liston
Julia Metzler Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Botany, Native Plants, Restoration Ecology PI: Linda Hardison Major Professor: Linda Hardison
Kyle Mondron Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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
Lester Nunez Ro...	Contact person by email	PI: Inga Zasada Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Inga Zasada
Hayley Park	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Posy Busby , Major Professor: Christopher Mundt
Savannah Phipps Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Inga Zasada Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Inga Zasada
Brooklyn Richards	Contact person by email	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 Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Samuel Leiboff
Isabelle Stiver Graduate Fellow		PI: Fletcher Halliday
Hannah Suli	Contact person by email	Mycology, Forest Pathology PI: Jared LeBoldus
Kimberly Syring Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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
Kassondra Watson	Contact person by email	PI: M ichael 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

Former Student

Former Student
Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
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 Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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
Brandon Stairs	Contact person by email	PI: Jessie Uehling Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Jessie Uehling
Ian Trautman AW-Slrd: Fac Res Assist
Jessie Zimmerman Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PI: Posy Busby MS in Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Achala KC, Major Professor: Posy Busby

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