Students
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
Maria Lovallo
Undergraduate Student
Utilizing Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the evolutionary link between physiology and the microbiome.
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.
