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
