2018 Graduates

Lorena Gomez-Montano

• Date: December 2018
• Degree: PhD Plant Pathology
• Major Professors: Megan Kennelly and Ari Jumpponen, previously Karen Garrett
• Dissertation: The response of soil microbial communities to vegetable cropping systems analyzed for RNA- and DNA-based sampling

Qianli Pan

• Date: December 2018
• Degree: MS Genetics
• Major Professor: Eduard Akhunov
• Thesis: Application of CRISPR/Cas9 to edit genes affecting seed morphology traits in wheat

Daljit Singh

• Date: December 2018
• Degree: PhD Genetics
• Major Professor: Jesse Poland
• Thesis: Phenomics enabled genetic dissection of complex traits in wheat breeding

Anupama Joshi

• Date: August 2018
• Degree: PhD Genetics
• Major Professor: Bikram Gill
• Thesis: Map-based cloning of the Hessian fly resistance gene H13 in Wheat

Andres Salcedo

• Date: May 2018
• Degree: PhD Genetics
• Major Professor: Eduard Akhunov
• Thesis: Unraveling the mechanisms of Sr35-based resistance in the wheat-Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici pathosystem
• Position after graduation: Fellow Post-Doc, North Carolina State University, Dr. Lina Quesada

Christian Webb

• Date: August 2018
• Degree: M.S. Plant Pathology
• Major Professor: Erick De Wolf
• Thesis: Epidemiological factors impacting the development of Wheat streak mosaic virus outbreaks
• Position after graduation: Assistant Director, Great Plains Diagnostic Network