People: Graduate Student
Tyler Chandross-Cohen
Food Science Graduate Student
Characterizing the effect of Bacillus cereus toxin Hemolysin BL in the organisms biofilm formation and colonization capabilities.
Kara Eckert
Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science Graduate Student
The effects of perennial forage crops on ecosystem services including the microbial communities associated with weed seeds in the seed bank.
Ana Fonseca
Animal Science Graduate Student
Promoting poultry health and productivity through feed additives. Exploring poultry microbiome, resitome, metabolome and the immunity system.
Nicholas Gabel
Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
Agaricus bisporus cultivation
Ali Ghazvinian
Architecture Graduate Student
The conversion of bio-based materials to the architectural context, working at the intersection of computational design, Biodesign, and material tinkering.
Maria Alejandra Gil Polo
Graduate Student
Measuring long-term adaptation of rhizobia and non-rhizobia bacteria to different alfalfa varieties
Abhinay Gontu
Graduate Student
Developing and characterizing broad-spectrum therapeutics and prophylactics against SARS-CoV-2
Rachel Herschlag
Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
Patrick Hoover
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student
Evaluating the metabolisms of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems.
Pankaj Kuhar
Graduate Student
Carrie Lordan Heron
Graduate Student
Research focused on the intersection of Art Education and Environmentalism and Sustainability
Ashley Ohstrom
Food Science Graduate Student
Characterizing the unique microbiomes of sourdough starter cultures to investigate microbial activity and enzymes that can hydrolyze gluten during bread fermentation.
Samuel Osabutey
Graduate Student
My research focus on the interaction Pseudomonas syringae strains on Cucurbit, beet and chard plants through the use of MLSA/MLST to understand the evolution. This study will also employ homologous recombination to unravel mechanism of horizontal gene transfer among Pseudomonas syringae strains the above mentioned crops.
Edwin Rivera-López
Food Science, Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Student
Research phage therapy to understand the mechanisms of phage resistance in E. coli O157:H7, allowing us to predict resistance/susceptibility.
Abimel Salazar
Grad Student
My research involves the study of Salmonella enterica and E.coli propagation through different stages of a vegetable value chain in Cambodia.
Adam Scherr
Entomology Graduate Student
How the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda produces plant hormones within its saliva
Kyle Smith
Anthropology Graduate Student
How the social relationship between dogs and humans impacts dogs biologically.
Anthony Taylor
Graduate Student
Theoretical, functional, and evolutionary studies of defective viral genomes as regulatory elements in plants and insects.
