Plant Path presenters of Spring 2017 Research Fair

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

ZEINA AL-AMEELI, MAHA ELRAKAIBY, and MITESHRI PRAJAPATI 
Advisors: John DeLong, James Van Etten, Kyle Hoagland and David Dunigan
“Chlorovirus Amplification by Some Predators Foraging on Endosymbiotic Containing Paramecia”

NIKITA GAMBHIR
Advisor: Sydney Everhart
“Whole Genome Sequencing for Analysis of Fungicide-exposed ‘Sclerotinia sclerotiorum’”

MARGARITA MARROQUIN-GUZMAN
Advisor: Richard Wilson
“The Fungal Nitrooxidative Stress Response Suppresses Rice Innate Immunity During Blast”

EDGAR NIETO LOPEZ
Advisor: Sydney Everhart
“Fungicide Sensitivity of ‘Sclerotinia sclerotiorum’ from Soybean in the North Central United States”

RAQUEL ROCHA
Advisor: Richard Wilson
“Roles of Polyamine Metabolism in Appressorium Function”

LAUREN SEGAL
Advisor: Richard Wilson
“The ‘Magnaporthe oryzae’ RSR1 Gene Regulates Fungal Antioxidation and is Essential for Host ROS Neutralization During Rice Cell Invasion”

KATHERINE LAGERSTROM
Advisor: Jim Alfano
“The Involvement of ‘Arabidopsis Calmodulin’ in Plant Immunity against ‘Pseudomonas syringae’”

SHELBY HOLADAY
Advisor: Steve Harris
“Analysis of Morphology and Secretion Mutants in ‘Aspergillus nidulans’”

STELLA UITERWAAL & AARON KNAPP
Advisor: Hernan Garcia-Ruiz
“Identification of Silencing Suppressor Proteins in Sugarcane Mosaic Virus”

ANTHONY PANNULLO
Advisor: Sydney Everhart
“Population Structure of ‘Sclerotinia sclerotiorum’ Isolates from Argentina, Brazil and the USA”

ELENA WICKSTROM, KATY DOWNIE, and HARRIET APPEAH
Advisor, Richard Wilson
“Methods of studying the pathogenicity of ‘Magnaporthe oryzae’”

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