Graduate Students
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Harrison Bell | Contact person by email |
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Trenton Berrian | Contact person by email |
PI: Aymeric Goyer Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Theodora Borland | Contact person by email |
PI: David Gent |
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Zachary Bright Graduate Students |
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Computational biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, computer science
PI: Molly Megraw Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Rachel Brunner Graduate Students |
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PhD: Ecology |
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Nicholas Carleson | Contact person by email |
PI: Niklaus Grunwald BioResource Research, PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Adam Carson | Contact person by email |
PI: Jared LeBoldus |
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Stephanie Chase | Contact person by email |
PI: Jared LeBoldus |
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Daniella Echeverria | Contact person by email |
PI: Kenneth Frost Botany and Plant Pathology |
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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 |
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Harrison Flieg | Contact person by email |
PI: John Fowler Jr. |
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Anupa Gaire | Contact person by email |
PI: Achala KC |
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Kyle Gervers Graduate Students |
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PI: Joseph Spatafora , PI: Posy Busby PhD: Mycology |
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Leslie Harris | Contact person by email |
PI: Samuel Leiboff |
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Tanner Jefferson Graduate Students |
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Kameron Kilday Faculty Research Assistant |
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PI: Kenneth Johnson |
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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...
PI: Jessie Uehling 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.
PI: Aaron Liston |
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Abigail Neat | Contact person by email |
PI: Posy Busby |
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Lester Nunez Ro... | Contact person by email |
PI: Inga Zasada Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph.D. Student, Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Savannah Phipps Graduate Students |
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PI: Inga Zasada Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Carolina Pina Paez | Contact person by email |
PI: Joseph Spatafora PhD: Mycology |
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Conner Rogan | Contact person by email |
PI: Jeff Anderson 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...
PI: Posy Busby Mycology, Plant Pathology |
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Diana Ruggiero Graduate Students |
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PI: Samuel Leiboff |
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Gabriel Sacher | Contact person by email |
PI: Jay Pscheidt PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Brandon Stairs | Contact person by email |
PI: Jessie Uehling Botany and Plant Pathology |
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Hannah Suli | Contact person by email |
Mycology, Forest Pathology
PI: Jared LeBoldus |
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Kimberly Syring | Contact person by email |
Mycology |
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Katherine Gray | Contact person by email |
PI: Dimitre Mollov |
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Melissa Vergara | Contact person by email |
PI: Posy Busby |
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Brian VerWey Faculty Research Assistant Research Support |
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PI: Jason Graff |
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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 |
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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...
PI: Walter Mahaffee PhD: Plant Pathology |
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Jessie Zimmerman Graduate Students |
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PI: Posy Busby MS in Botany and Plant Pathology |
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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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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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