Graduate Students

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Greeshmanth Alluri Contact person by email

PhD student studying electric weed control in Hops. 



Major Professor: Marcelo Moretti
Kelley Asselin Contact person by email

Major Advisor: Chris Adams


Luisa Baccin Contact person by email


Major Professor: Marcelo Moretti
Alexander Buschauer Contact person by email

Alexander Butcher Contact person by email

I am interested in biorational pest management and insect agriculture. I have conducted studies on plant immunity elicitors in potatoes, volatile attractants of predatory insects in nursery production of red maple, and the effects of overwintering on the prey preference of predatory insects....


Horticulture, Option in Entomology , Minor in Organizational Leadership, Certification in Supply Chain Logistics and Management
Major Professor: Vaughn Walton
Ryan Chave Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Vaughn Walton
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Claire Donahoo Contact person by email

Major Advisor, Nik Wiman

Her PhD will focus on dispersal patterns and nontarget effects of the samurai wasp, Trissolcus japonicus, a biological control agent of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in specialty crop areas in Oregon.


A native of Lincoln, NE, Claire received her BS in Fish & Wildlife Biology with a concentration in Conservation Biology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then received her MS in Entomology at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she studied mortality dynamics of...
Ph.D., Horticulture
Major Professor: Nik Wiman

Kenneth Donsky Contact person by email
  • Plant tissue culture
  • Genetic engineering
  • Nanotechnology


Horticulture, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Major Professor: Laurent Deluc
Armando Felix Leyva Contact person by email

Iliak Harmsen Saa
Graduate Research Assistant
Contact person by email I am a PhD student whose experiment consists in a plot trial at Lewis Brown Farm Turf Facility in Corvallis to evaluate different plant species for their compatibility within turf systems, in combination with different establishment methods. We’ll evaluate different methods for establishing...


Horticulture
Major Professor: Alec Kowalewski
Edwin Harris Contact person by email

I am a PhD student researching interactions between the brown marmorated stink bug and key hosts such as hazelnut in order to develop behaviorally informed management strategies for this invasive pest.



Major Professor: Vaughn Walton
Shikhar Hatwal Contact person by email

MS student researching the difference in characteristics of Classic (<2000) vs Contemporary (>2010) Varieties of Turf Type Tall Fescue. Some of those characteristics are turf quality, drought tolerance, rust tolerance, and seed yield.



Horticulture
Major Professor: Alec Kowalewski
Brianna Heilsnis Contact person by email

PhD student researching fine mapping linkage Group 2 Eastern Filbert Blight Resistance in Corylus avellana. 



Horticulture
Major Professor: Shawn Mehlenbacher
Joussy Hidrobo ... Contact person by email

PhD student with a research emphasis in EFB, Bee Pollination, and Bee Nutrition. 



Horticulture
Major Professor: Ramesh Sagili , Major Professor: Erica Chernoh
Taylor Janecek
Graduate Fellow


Major Professor: Gail Langellotto
Jared Jorgensen
Bio Science Research Tech 2
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Major Professor: Ramesh Sagili
Claire Kepner Contact person by email

Natalie Lareau Contact person by email


Major Professor: Nik Wiman
Grace Lilly
Graduate Research Assistant
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Horticulture
Major Professor: Patricia Skinkis
David Maliszewski
Faculty Research Assistant
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Christian Mandelli
Graduate Research Assistant
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PhD student researching the development of a spray-induced gene silencing approach to control grapevine red blotch virus.



Horticulture, Biological Data Science
Major Professor: Laurent Deluc
Juliano Ricardo... Contact person by email

Nicholas McDonald Contact person by email

MS student researching the use of SmartWater fluorescent marker solution to track the dispersal of parasitoid wasps.



Horticulture, Entomology Program
Pamela Medeiros... Contact person by email


Major Professor: Marcelo Moretti
Nina Miller
Temp Bio Sci Research Tech 1
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MS student researching diversity and abundance of flower visiting Syrphidae in urban gardens. 



Major Professor: Gail Langellotto
Joshua Wilfredo... Contact person by email


Major Professor: Marcelo Moretti
Chisom Molokwu Contact person by email

PhD student researching attract and kill as a pest management strategy to control Drosophila suzukii while achieving crop protection. 



Horticulture (Entomology)
Major Professor: Vaughn Walton
Rion Mooneyham Contact person by email

PhD student with a project in fine mapping the linkage group 7 to eastern filbert blight (EFB) resistance region in European hazelnut and developing new SSR and PACE markers to support marker-assisted selection and breeding of EFB-resistant hazelnut cultivars in Oregon.



Horticulture
Major Professor: Shawn Mehlenbacher
Benjamin Nichols Contact person by email

PhD student with a project in evaluating and mitigating European foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies pollinating specialty crops to enhance and sustain pollination. 



Major Professor: Ramesh Sagili
Jane O'Sullivan Contact person by email

MS student with a research project in measuring the timing and abundance of a dozen key natural enemies of the pear psylla (Cacopsylla pryi) and helping growers establish action thresholds to make better decisions and reduce pesticide use in Hood River by...

Scott Orr Contact person by email

PhD student with a research project in water relations of Highbush Blueberry through precision weighing lysimeters, remote sensing, and machine learning.



Major Professor: David Bryla
Samikshya Pandey Contact person by email

MS student researcing Integrated Pest Management in Hemp: Evaluating Host Plant Resistance, Landscape Features, and Cultural Controls for Effective Management of Corn Earwrom (Helicoverpa zea).



Horticulture
Matthew Pedersen Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Nik Wiman
Joshua Perrault


Horticulture
Major Professor: Lloyd Nackley
Claire Pierce Contact person by email

Sonu Poudel Contact person by email

Andrea Retano Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Scott Lukas
Christian Sanchez Contact person by email

MS student researching drought tolerance ornamental plans for Western Oregon. 



Major Professor: Alec Kowalewski
Karmandeep Sidhu Contact person by email

Danielle Simenc Contact person by email

PhD student assisting Kelly Vining on Hemp Breeding for Fiber Materials, Technology, and Commerce.



Major Professor: Kelly Vining
Abram Smith Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Laurent Deluc
Cole Stover Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Alec Kowalewski
Rachael Szymanski

MS student utilizing biocomputing and genomic resources to study self-incompatability in hazelnut. 



Horticulture
Major Professor: Kelly Vining
Ryan Turner Contact person by email

Hannah Velazquez Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Kristine Buckland
James Wirth Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Marcelo Moretti
Anders Wohler Contact person by email

Major Advisor, Chris Adams



Horticulture
Yan Yan Contact person by email

Major Advisor, Chris Adams

MS student researching movement and dispersal patterns of Euscelidius variegatus, a leafhopper vector of X-disease in cherry orchards. Evaluating marking techniques, trapping heights, and environmental variables to better understand leafhopper...


Horticulture
Major Professor: Kelsey Galimba
Ho Jung Yoon Contact person by email


Horticulture
Major Professor: Man Yeon Choi