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Katherine Berg-Falloure
- she/her/hers
- PhD Candidate
- Focus Area: Plant metabolite signaling in response to biotic and abiotic stress.
- Office:
- PLPM - Kolomiets Lab - First Floor
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 540-553-4418
- Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-476X
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S. Biological Sciences, minor in Plant Health Sciences, Virginia Tech
- Graduate Education
- Courses Taught
- PLPM Laboratory Prep TA
- PLPA 303 - Fall 2020- Spring 2023
- BESC 367 TA - Fall 2023
Areas of Expertise
Plant Metabolite Signaling Mass Spectrometry
Plant metabolite signaling in response to biotic and abiotic stress.
Professional Summary
Katherine Berg-Falloure is a PhD candidate in the Texas A&M Plant Pathology & Microbiology Department. Her research focuses on metabolites known as ketols that are produced via the allene oxide synthase (AOS) pathway in maize. Her research utilizes maize plants deficient in ketol production to elucidate the function of ketols in response to pathogen stress, insect herbivory, drought stress, and heat stress. She is also in charge of the operation and maintenance of the Kolomiets lab LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, and prep HPLC. Berg-Falloure utilizes this equipment to build methods of detection for various metabolites, as well as the purification of metabolites from plant tissue. She has presented a poster at the APS Caribbean Division 2023 meeting in South Padre Island, TX. She has also won awards for poster presentations at the Plant Pathology and Microbiology Annual Symposium at Texas A&M; including 2nd place poster in 2022 in the Early Career category, and 1st place poster in 2023 in the Advanced Career category.