Students
Nina Devine
Entomology Graduate Student
Multispecies interactions in cucurbit agroecosystems and the effects of host-plant specialization across trophic levels
Anuleka Dutta
Graduate Student
Developing plant-inspired actuated hybrid robots spanning from macro to nano scales
Fernando Flores López
Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of plant pathogenic bacteria and their interactions with host plants
Ana Fonseca
Animal Science Graduate Student
Promoting poultry health and productivity through feed additives. Exploring poultry microbiome, resitome, metabolome and the immunity system.
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
Richard Gonzalez Aquino
Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in the bacterium Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni, which causes bacterial spot in stone fruits.
Mankanwal Goraya
Plant Pathology and Microbiome Sciences Graduate Student
Integrating multiplex molecular diagnostics, root–soil microbiome profiling, and comparative genomics to elucidate interactions among soilborne pathogens and their crop hosts
Rachel Herschlag
Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student