2022 Graduates
Cameron Amos
- December 2022
- MS Genetics
- Major Professors: Dal-Hoe Koo and Jesse Poland
- Dissertation: The recombination landscape of diploid wheat from a high-density genetic map of Triticum monococcum subsp. monococcum x Triticum monococcum subsp. aegilopoides
Joe Fenoglio
- August 2022
- MS Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: John Fellers and David Cook
- Dissertation: Identification of leaf rust susceptibility genes in wheat
Heather Gardner
- August 2022
- MS Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Erick DeWolf
- Dissertation: Characterization of virulence and heat stress tolerance of stripe rust populations in Kansas
Jun Huang
- August 2022
- PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professors: David Cook
- Dissertation: Histone modification dynamics and genome engineering in Magnaporthe oryzae
Cameron Hunter
- December 2022
- PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Richard Todd
- Dissertation: Nitrogen signaling and nuclear localization of the Aspergillus nidulans GATA transcription factor AreA
Dylan Mangel
- May 2022
- Degree: PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Jessica Rupp
- Dissertation: Characterization of the necrotrophic effector ToxA in Kansas fungal leaf spot pathogen populations
Afsana Noor
- December 2022
- Degree: PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Chris Little
- Dissertation: Understanding the physiological and molecular aspects of charcoal rot resistance mechanisms in sorghum and soybean
Nar Ranabhat
- May 2022
- Degree: PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Jessica Rupp
- Dissertation: Exploring the wheat virome using high-throughput Nanopore sequencing: A metagenomic and phylogenetic analysis
Buket Sahin
- May 2022
- Degree: MS Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Bernd Friebe
- Dissertation: Phenotypic evaluation of seedling and adult-plant stripe, leaf, and stem rust resistance in the A-genome diploid relatives of wheat
Joel Steyer
- May 2022
- Degree: PhD Plant Pathology
- Major Professor: Richard Todd
- Dissertation: Characterization of the branched chain amino acid metabolic pathway and its regulators in Aspergillus nidulans