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Gayan Abeysinghe
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Focus: Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Networks, Fungal-Bacterial Interactions
Hannah Ayala
Project Manager I
Head Diagnostician, TPDDL-CSFocus: Plant disease diagnostics, Extension outreach
Caleb Oliver Bedsole
Ph.D. Candidate
Focus: My research focuses on examining how adhesive and spore morphology, as well as conidial development, affect the distribution of conidia in Colletotrichum.
PLPM 214
Jennifer Chagoya
Technician III
Focus: Molecular detection and quantification of Fusarium wilt pathogens in cotton
Paul Goetze
Extension Assistant
Focus: Laboratory manager, field sampling, data collection, experimental runs. Focus on pecan scab, take-all root rot of turfgrass, rice kernel smut, fungicide efficacy.
PLPM 110
Pei-Chang Huang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Focus: My primary research focuses on elucidating the requirement of plant oxylipins for signaling defense responses to pests and pathogens and for tolerance against abiotic stresses.
Samantha Knackstadt
Extension Assistant
Focus: Oversee daily lab duties/tests at the Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab.
Centeq A130
Elena Kolomiets
Technical Lab Coordinator
Focus: Oversee prep and teaching TAs for the PLPA 303 labs. Grow plants and prepare materials for the labs. Conduct Common equipment repairs and submit requests to SSC and see them to completion. Prepare materials for yearly equipment inventories and facilitate surplus procedures.
979-571-3505
Abby Korn
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Focus: Bacteriophage research for both human and plant pathogens.
PLPM 331
Krista McCallum
Administrative Coordinator II
Focus: Provides administrative support to Department Head and Associate Department Heads.
Sam Murdock
Academic Program Coordinator
Focus: Oversees and coordinates academic & student service programs within BESC/PLPM.
Courtney Overby
Program Coordinator
Focus: Receiving samples, answering phone calls, emails and doing invoicing and payments.
Kati Stoddard
Instructional Associate Professor and Associate Director for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Center for Teaching Excellence
Focus: An evidence-based approach to teaching and learning that is inclusive, supported by appropriate instructional technology, transformative, and immersively engaging.
Jake Ueckert
Project Manager
Focus: Optimization and validation of molecular diagnostic methods for plant pathogen detection. Evaluation of efficacy and crop safety of pesticides for greenhouse ornamental crops.
Tanya Wagner
Research Scientist/Lab Manager for Sanjay Antony Babu
Focus: Bacterial and fungal interactions during plant disease
Peiguo Yuan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Focus: studying genes and metabolites of lipid-based biochemical and signal transduction pathways in maize
