Graduate Students

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
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
Davi de Carvalh...	Contact person by email
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	Iliak is 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	Edwin is 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	Shikhar is a 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	Brianna is a 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	Joussy is a 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	Contact person by email	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	Contact person by email	Horticulture Major Professor: Patricia Skinkis
David Maliszewski Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email
Christian Mandelli Graduate Research Assistant Graduate Students	Contact person by email	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	Contact person by email	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	MS Horticulture, Entomology Option Major Professor: Man Yeon Choi
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 Graduate Research assistant	Contact person by email	I am a graduate student in the Skinkis Viticulture Lab researching the social and economic impacts of vineyard nutrient management practices as part of the High-Resolution Vineyard Nutrition Project. My academic interests center on sustainable viticulture, precision agriculture, and the... Horticulture Major Professor: Patricia Skinkis
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

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