Eskalen Lab

Lab Group

Dr. Akif Eskalen, Professor of Cooperative Extension in Plant Pathology

AEskalen

 

 

AWARDS:

  • Professional Travel Award-Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources: 2012 – 2018
  • Recognition, The APS Pacific Division 2017, Local Arrangement Team.
  • Award of Arboricultural Research. International Society of Arboriculture. 2016
  • Outstanding Education Materials Award. California Master Gardener Handbook, 2nd Edition 2015.

OFFICES:

  • President of APS-Pacific Division 2020-2021
  • Scientific Committee Member of 14th International Citrus Congress (ICC 2020)
  • Scientific Committee Member of VI. Turkish Plant Protection Congress in 2018. 
  • Advisory Board Member for the Journal or Turkish Phytopathology 2016-Present.
  • Secretary-Treasurer, American Phytopathology Society-Pacific Division, 2012-13
  • Senior Editor_Disease Note Assigning Editor, Plant Disease 2012-2015 
  • Associate Editor_Citrograph, California Citrus Research Board 2010-2012

 

Karina Elfar, Ph.D. Project Scientist, Lab Manager

Photo - Karina Elfar

AWARDS:

  • First place in student oral presentations, APS Caribbean Division, at the XXV Chilean Phytopathological Society Congress, XIX Latin American Phytopathology Congress, LVII APS Caribbean Division Meeting. Chillan, Chile, October 2017.
  • Second place in student oral presentations, SOCHIFIT, at the XXIII Chilean Phytopathological Society Congress. Talca, Chile. December 2014.
  • Third place in student oral presentations, SOCHIFIT, at the XX Chilean Phytopathological Society Congress. Santiago, Chile. November 2011.

 

Karen Alarcon, SRA, Lab & Field Technician

 
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Marcelo Bustamante, Ph.D. Post-Doc

 

Marcelo Bustamante

AWARDS and OFFICES:

  • President of DOPPS 
  • Second place for best poster at 12th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases - July 2022, Mikulov, Czech Republic.
  • Ogawa award, 2019-2020
  • Henry A. Jastro Research Award, 2019
  • Jastro-Shields Graduate Student Research Award 2020-2021
  • SOMA The Sonoma County Mycological Association, 2021-2022
 
 
 

Andrew Richards, Graduate Student 

Andrew Richards

AWARDS and OFFICES:

  • Jastro-Shields Graduate Student Research Award 2023-2024

 

Celeste Gonzalez Chavez, Graduate student

 
Celeste Gonzalez

  • APS-PD 2024 Student Poster Competition, Third place award
  • 2023-2024-Leach Memorial Travel Award
  • Jastro-Shields Graduate Student Research Award 2024-2025
 

Phusadee Sivongxay, Undergrad Research Assistant   

Phusadee Sivongxay

 
 

Jana Al-Rwahnih,  High school student researcher  

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Chiroshree Das,  Undergrad Research Assistant  

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Melia Nichols,  Undergrad Research Assistant  

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Former Lab Members

  • Thomas Zaninovich, Undergrad Researcher

  • Audrey Spindler, Undergrad Researcher

  • Adam Adaskaveg, Undergrad Researcher

  • Carlos Carachure, Lab&Field Technician

  • Sophie Demaisy, Visiting Intern

  • Moll Arreguin, Lab&Field Technician

  • Janet Kuzmenko, Student Assistant

  • Samuel Wells, Lab&Field Technician

  • Robert Blundell, M.Sc. 2021

  • Carissa Frency Chiang, Student Assistant

  • Edeli Reyes, Lab&Field Technician

  • Azucena Beltran, Field Technician 

  • Powen Pai, Student Assistant

  • Kathleen Yu, Student Assistant 

  • Tyslee Chen, Student Assistant 

  • Teagen Haden, Student Assistant 

  • Timothy Gallagher, Student Assistant

  • Steven Palomares, Student Assistant 

  • Erin Hardy, Student Assistant 

  • Daisy Liang, Student Assistant 

  • Masury Lynch, Lab Technician

  • Ian Doa, Student Assistant

  • Emily Bossard, Lab & Field Technician

  • Joseph Carrillo, Ph.D.

  • Joey Mayorquin, Ph.D.

  • Kevin Moreno. Field Technician

  • Fabian Gonzalez, Field Technician 

  • Dee Vega, Research Assistant from Cal-Poly Pomona

  • Benedict Mamaril. Student Assistant

  • Emily Miethke,  Field Technician  

  • Mark Tan, Research Assistant from Cal-Poly Pomona

  • Divya Joshi. Student Assistant 

  • Cedric Ndinga Muniania, Lab Technician 

  • Francis Na, M.Sc. 

  • Danny Wang, Lab Assistant 

  • Kameron Sugino, Lab Assistant

  • Mathias Twizeyimana, Post-Doc

  • Munire Bayar, Visiting Student

  • Dr. Cafer Mart, Visiting Professor

  • Dr. Meral Incesu, Visiting Professor

  • Dr. Soner Akgul, Visiting Professor

  • Dr. Mukaddes Kayim, Visiting Professor

  • Dr. Ali Endes, Visiting Professor

  • Tony Adesemoye, Post-Doc 

  • Beth Peacock, Lab Assistant

  • Robert Kotonya, Student Assistant

  • Ana Villanueva, Student Assistant 

  • Virginia McDonald, Ph.D. Lab Manager