Lab Group

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

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

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

 

Marcelo Bustamante, Ph.D. Post-Doc

 

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 

AWARDS and OFFICES: Jastro-Shields Graduate Student Research Award 2023-2024

Celeste Gonzalez Chavez, Graduate student

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   

 

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

 

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