Nelson Lab: People & Places

Nelson Lab: People and Places

Judy Kolkman
Lab Manager
PhD, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Genetic analysis of quantitative disease resistance in maize

K. Alice Bulkeley
MSc, Horticultural Biology
Administrative Assistant,
The McKnight Foundation
Collaborative Crop Research Program

Samuel Mutiga
Graduate Student, Plant Pathology, understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of aflatoxin accumulation

Santiago Mideros
PhD Student, Plant Pathology,
Resistance to Aspergillus flavus in maize

Tiffany Jamann
Graduate Student, Plant Pathology, isolation of QTL for disease resistance

Lin-si Hsieh
MSc Student, Plant Pathology, Population structure of maize pathogens in NY State

Jaci Benson
Ph.D. student in Plant Breeding and Genetics
Genetics of resistance to gray leaf spot of maize

Chia-Lin Chung
Post-Doctoral Associate, Plant Pathology,Dissection of QTLs for disease resistance

Oliver Ott
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jesse Poland, PhD Candidate, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Nested association mapping for resistance to Northern Corn Leaf Blight

Ying Wei
Former Llab Manager

Laura Johnson
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Randy Wisser
Ph.D., Plant Breeding, 2006
Now a Post-Doc at North Carolina State University

Ellie Walsh
Undergraduate Lab Assistant

Joy Longfellow
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Presidential Research Scholar

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Inoculation team, July 2007

The Nelson lab group out enjoying a meal

James Gethi, our collaborator from Kenya, on a visit to the lab

Chia-Lin Chung inoculates her field experiment in Aurora, NY