Brilliant Asamoah | basamoa1@g.umd.edu | AEED | - Extension Education
- Urban Agriculture
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Behavior/Technology adoption
- Extension stakeholder engagement
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Lindsay Barranco | lbarranc@g.umd.edu | AEED | | |
Innocent Byiringiro | ibyiring@umd.edu | PLSC | - Plant genome engineering
- Metabolic pathways engineering
| Qi Lab |
Joshua Clem | jclem@umd.edu | PLSC | - Plant genome engineering
- DNA repair
- CRISPR/Cas systems
| Qi Lab |
Rachele Franceschi | rfrance1@g.umd.edu | AEED | - Urban Agriculture
- Extension Education
- Educational Framework Development
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Simran Goyal | sgoyal13@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Samantha Hasselholf | samhass@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Small fruit pathology
- Focused on understanding the impact that planting latently infected strawberry plants with fungal pathogens has on fruit production in the mid Atlantic region.
| Hu Lab |
Adam Hopper | ahopper@umd.edu | PLSC | - Metabolomics of crop surfaces influence on plant-microbe associations
- Reduction of enteric pathogen colonization on crop surfaces using a metabolomics approach
- Examination of physiological and morphological traits that drive enteric pathogen attachment/colonization
| Micallef Lab |
Claire Hudson | clhudson@umd.edu | PLSC | - Exploration of the role of endophytic microorganisms and plant defenses against pathogenic bacteria
- Influence of plant associated microbiota on plant exometabolome and the metabolome of the host
- Abiotic and biotic elicitation of antimicrobial secondary metabolites in leafy greens as a means to improve food safety.
- Abiotic elicitation and the impact on shelf life and microbiome shifts in leafy greens.
- Internalization of enteric pathogens on leafy greens in response to factors such as changes in environmental conditions, metabolome and microbiome.
| Micallef Lab |
Anmol Kajla | akajla97@umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Leyu Kalkidan | lkalkida@umd.edu | PLSC | - Studying the effects of the use of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation on red skin color development, phenolic compounds and food safety on commercially important apple cultivars during post-harvest.
| Farcuh Lab |
Diksha Klair | diksha@umd.edu | PLSC | - Investigation of the Influence of PGPR on plant metabolome under abiotic stresses.
- Enteric pathogen-plant interactions influencing transcriptomic and metabolomic profile of plant.
| Micallef Lab |
Shaylan Kolodney | kolodney@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Evaluating optimal cultivation strategies for switchgrass to maximize biomass production, enhance carbon sequestration, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
| Tully Lab |
Joseph Lagner | jlagner@umd.edu | PLSC | - Application of CRISPR-based disease detection.
| Qi Lab |
Bruce Levine | levinebj@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Hongjin Lu | lhj817@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Gracie Mason | gracies@g.umd.edu | AEED | | |
Md Miah Shipon | shipon@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Fruit quality, physiology and and molecular biology
- Pre-harvest ethylene regulators on physiological disorders of fruit
- Fruit quality and key-related metabolic pathways during post-harvest storage condition
| Farcuh lab |
Newton Vienna | vnewton@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Anshul Rana | arana1@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Understanding the association between weed-originated Colletotrichum nymphaeae and strawberry anthracnose
- Determining microbiome seasonality in strawberries and nearby weeds
- Understanding the impact of herbicide applications on the change of disease inoculum levels
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Jacob Rasmussen | jrasmuss@umd.edu | AEED | | |
Jacqueline Repp | jrepp@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Small fruit pathology
- Understanding fitness costs associated with important genetic mutations conferring fungicide resistance in the Botrytis fruit rot pathogen utilizing RNP based CRISPR/Cas9 system.
| Hu lab |
John Samura | jsamura@g.umd.edu | AEED | | |
Alison Schulenburg | aschul98@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Determining soil ion dynamics under restoration grass species on coastal agricultural fields experiencing saltwater intrusion (SWI).
- Analyzing the current use of easement programs on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland and understanding how they will change with sea level rise and SWI.
- Monitoring the implementation and measuring the benefits of easement programs on fields experiencing multiple stages of SWI.
- Evaluating optimal cultivation strategies for switchgrass to maximize biomass production to create an alternative source of revenue (e.g., for anaerobic digestion).
| Tully Lab |
Morales-Salva Arielis | amoral13@umd.edu | PLSC | | Tiwari Lab |
Paulson Carl | cpaulso1@umd.edu | PLSC | - Wheat genetics
- Wheat transformation
| Tiwari Lab |
Meg Smolinski | msmolins@umd.edu | AEED | | |
Nathaniel Spicer | nspicer@umd.edu | PLSC | - Evaluating the impacts of sea level rise on carbon and nitrogen cycling in agricultural fields and forests on the Eastern Shore.
| Tully Lab |
Uday Kumar Thera | uthera@umd.edu | PLSC | - Turfgrass pathology and Sustainable Turfgrass Maintenance
| Shahoveisi Lab |
Louis Thorne | lthorne@umd.edu | PLSC | - Phytoremediation in soils with high phosphorus
| Fiorellino Lab |
Sydney Wallace | swallac1@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Ruiting Wang | rtwang28@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Erin Wiegman | ewiegman@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Plant Developmental Genetics; Genome Editing; Trait Development in Biotech.
| Rawat lab |
Yuwei Xiao | ywxiao93@g.umd.edu | PLSC | - Fruit development through two different plant systems: wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and Arabidopsis thaliana.
| Liu Lab |
Thomas Young | tyoung47@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
Minting Zeng | mintingz@g.umd.edu | PLSC | | |
