Students
Patrick Hoover
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student
Contributions of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) in natural contexts
Kehinde Kolapo
Entomology Graduate Student
How endophytic fungi contribute to enhancing maize (Zea mays) tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses, particularly phytopathogen infection, herbivore attack, and drought.
Wenxin Long
Statistics Graduate Student
Developing machine learning or deep learning methods on biological data, e.g. scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics.
Carrie Lordan Heron
Graduate Student
Research focused on the intersection of Art Education and Environmentalism and Sustainability
Marina Naumova
Biology Undergraduate Student
Plant microbiomes and their relationship to host and pathogen fitness using the model bacterium P. syringae
Theo Newbold
Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology Graduate Student
The agronomic drivers, both biotic and abiotic, of foliar fungal endophyte communities in maize
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.