Postdocs and Staff
Cameron Cedeno
Research Technologist
Improving profitability for arugula and brassica leafy green growers in PA and the northeast US.
Erica Lawrence-Paul
Postdoctoral Researcher
How developmental stages, in particular vegetative phase change, modify the way plants function and interact with their environments.
Xavier Mack
Research Technologist/Lab Manager
Investigating if microbial communities recovered from mature tomato plants can act as biocontrols to suppress P. Syringae that causes bacterial speck and if taxonomic diversity of those communities plays a role in disease suppression
Melanie Medina López
Postdoctoral Researcher
Soil micropredators for plant pathogen control
Jigeesha Mukhopadhyay
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cacao genomics and transcriptomics using bioinformatics and programming approaches and gene discovery for assisting breeding and sustainable agricultural strategies.
Jaya Nepal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Novel water-dispersible carbon nanomaterials as a soil amendment in sandy Florida soils