Graduate Students

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Katelyn Baldino	Contact person by email
Harrison Bell	Contact person by email
Trenton Berrian	Contact person by email	Botany and Plant Pathology
Theodora Borland	Contact person by email
Zachary Bright Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Computational biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, computer science Botany and Plant Pathology
Rachel Brunner Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PhD: Ecology
Rene Burk Graduate Student (recent graduate 12/2020)	Contact person by email	MAIS in Botany and Plant Pathology, Anthropology and Geography
Nicholas Carleson	Contact person by email	BioResource Research, PhD: Plant Pathology
Adam Carson	Contact person by email
Stephanie Chase	Contact person by email
Daniella Echeverria	Contact person by email	Botany and Plant Pathology
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. PhD Plant Pathology
Harrison Flieg	Contact person by email
Kyle Gervers Graduate Students	Contact person by email	PhD: Mycology
Leslie Harris	Contact person by email
Tanner Jefferson Graduate Students	Contact person by email
Kameron Kilday Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email
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
Shawn McMurtrey	Contact person by email
Julia Metzler Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Botany, Native Plants, Restoration Ecology
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... Botany and Plant Pathology
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.
Abigail Neat	Contact person by email
Lester Nunez Ro...	Contact person by email	Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology
Savannah Phipps Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Botany and Plant Pathology
Carolina Pina Paez	Contact person by email	PhD: Mycology
Conner Rogan	Contact person by email	PhD: Microbiology
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
Diana Ruggiero Graduate Students	Contact person by email
Gabriel Sacher	Contact person by email	PhD: Plant Pathology
Brandon Stairs	Contact person by email	Botany and Plant Pathology
Hannah Suli	Contact person by email	Mycology, Forest Pathology
Kimberly Syring	Contact person by email	Mycology
Katherine Gray	Contact person by email
Melissa Vergara	Contact person by email
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)...
Alexander Wong Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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
Jessie Zimmerman Graduate Students	Contact person by email	MS in Botany and Plant Pathology

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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
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
Jiang Liu Postdoctoral Scholar	Contact person by email	PhD: Plant Pathology Major Professor: Christopher Mundt
Megan O Malley	Contact person by email	PhD: Microbiology Major Professor: Jeff Anderson
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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