Jonathan Jacobs, email , website

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Caitilyn Allen

Committee:

Amy Charkowski, Jeri Barak, Jean-Michel Ane, Audrey Gasch

Interest Area:

Plant-bacterial interactions, tropical plant pathology, high-risk crop pathogens

Jennifer Jirak, email

Program:

Plant Pathology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Paul Esker

Committee:

Interest Area:

Katherine Keller, email

Program:

Agroecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Ann MacGuidwin

Committee:

Interest Area:

Paul Koch, email, website

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

James Kerns

Committee:

Patricia McManus, Doug Rouse, John Stier, Nancy Keller

Interest Area:

Environmental fate of fungicides applied to turfgrass in the fall for preventative control of snow molds, alternative methods for controlling turfgrass diseases while reducing pesticide applications

Teresa Koller, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Rotation

Committee:

Interest Area:

Karen Lackermann, email

Program:

Plant Pathology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Paul Esker

Committee:

Amy Charkowski, Eileen Cullen, Shawn Conley

Interest Area:

Maria (Mapi) Marquez  Villavicencio, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Amy Charkowski

Committee:

Interest Area:

Chakradhar (Chaks) Mattupalli, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Paul Esker

Committee:

Ann MacGuidwin, Dennis Halterman, Shawn Conley

Interest Area:

Interactions between soybean cyst nematode, fusarium virguliforme and phialophora gregata in soybean

Austin Meier, email

Program:

Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Dennis Halterman

Committee:

Interest Area:

Fanhong Meng, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Caitilyn Allen

Committee:

Amy Charkowski, Jeri Barak, Nicole Perna, Edward Ruby, Jeremy Glasner

Interest Area:

Molecular plant microbe interactions

Shahideh Nouri, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Russell Groves

Committee:

Thomas German, Amy Charkowski

Interest Area:

Jeffrey Olsen, email

Program:

Plant Pathology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Amy Charkowski

Committee:

Jeri Barak, AJ (Alvin) Bussan

Interest Area:

Jonathan Palmer, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Nancy Keller

Committee:

Amy Charkowski, Jon Woods, Jae-Hyuk Yu, Laura Knoll

Interest Area:

Mycology, molecular biology, secondary metabolism, pathogenicity

Jacob Scherf, email

Program:

Bacteriology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Caitilyn Allen

Committee:

Interest Area:

Anna Seidl, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Rotation

Committee:

Interest Area:

Victoria Seitz, email

Program:

Plant Pathology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Douglas Rouse

Committee:

Interest Area:

Zuofeng Shang, email

Program:

Statistics PhD

Start Term:

Summer 2006

Advisor:

Murray Clayton

Committee:

Interest Area:

Bryan Sibert, email

Program:

Cellular & Molecular Biology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Paul Ahlquist

Committee:

Interest Area:

Muthusubramanian (Muthu) Venkateshwaran, email , website

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Jean-Michel Ane

Committee:

Edgar Spalding, Andrew Bent, Sebastian Bednarkek, Dennis Halterman

Interest Area:

Molecular plant-microbe interactions: symbiotic signaling vs defense signaling, molecular basis of plant disease resistance, ion channels in symbiotic/defense signaling

Yunlong Wang, email

Program:

Plant Pathology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

James Kerns

Committee:

Interest Area:

Zhi Wen, email

Program:

Cancer Biology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

Paul Ahlquist

Committee:

Interest Area:

Human Papilomavirus

Chantel Wilson, email

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

James Kerns

Committee:

Glen Stanosz, Nancy Keller, Doug Rouse, Doug Soldat

Interest Area:

Turfgrass pathology

Erika Yashiro, email, website

Program:

Plant Pathology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Patricia McManus

Committee:

Jo Handelsman, Amy Charkowski, Katherine (Trina) McMahon, Anthony Ives

Interest Area:

Microbial ecology; bacteriology; phyllosphere microbiology; antibiotic resistance; phylogenetics; metagenomics

Yang Zhao, email

Program:

Statistics PhD

Start Term:

Summer 2007

Advisor:

Murray Clayton

Committee:

Interest Area:

Spatial analysis; Bayesian analysis