 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 Qi Lab PLSC | - Plant genome engineering
- Metabolic pathways engineering
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 Joshua Clem jclem@umd.edu Qi Lab PLSC | - Plant genome engineering
- DNA repair
- CRISPR/Cas systems
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 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 Hu Lab 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.
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 Adam Hopper ahopper@umd.edu Micallef Lab 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
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 Claire Hudson clhudson@umd.edu Micallef Lab 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.
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 Anmol Kajla akajla97@umd.edu Tiwari Lab PLSC | |
Leyu Kalkidan lkalkida@umd.edu Farcuh Lab 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.
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 Diksha Klair diksha@umd.edu Micallef Lab PLSC | - Investigation of the Influence of PGPR on plant metabolome under abiotic stresses.
- Enteric pathogen-plant interactions influencing transcriptomic and metabolomic profile of plant.
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 Shaylan Kolodney kolodney@g.umd.edu Tully Lab PLSC | - Evaluating optimal cultivation strategies for switchgrass to maximize biomass production, enhance carbon sequestration, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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 Joseph Lagner jlagner@umd.edu Qi Lab PLSC | - Application of CRISPR-based disease detection.
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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 Farcuh lab 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
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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 Hu lab 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.
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John Samura jsamura@g.umd.edu AEED | |
 Alison Schulenburg aschul98@g.umd.edu Tully Lab 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).
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 Morales-Salva Arielis amoral13@umd.edu Tiwari Lab PLSC | |
Paulson Carl cpaulso1@umd.edu Tiwari Lab PLSC | - Wheat genetics
- Wheat transformation
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Meg Smolinski msmolins@umd.edu AEED | |
 Nathaniel Spicer nspicer@umd.edu Tully Lab PLSC | - Evaluating the impacts of sea level rise on carbon and nitrogen cycling in agricultural fields and forests on the Eastern Shore.
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 Uday Kumar Thera uthera@umd.edu Shahoveisi Lab PLSC | - Turfgrass pathology and Sustainable Turfgrass Maintenance
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Louis Thorne lthorne@umd.edu Fiorellino Lab PLSC | - Phytoremediation in soils with high phosphorus
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Sydney Wallace swallac1@g.umd.edu PLSC | |
Ruiting Wang rtwang28@g.umd.edu PLSC | |
 Erin Wiegman ewiegman@g.umd.edu Rawat lab PLSC | - Plant Developmental Genetics; Genome Editing; Trait Development in Biotech.
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Yuwei Xiao ywxiao93@g.umd.edu Liu Lab PLSC | - Fruit development through two different plant systems: wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Thomas Young tyoung47@g.umd.edu PLSC | |
Minting Zeng mintingz@g.umd.edu PLSC | |
