Personnel

The lab uses modern molecular techniques to map, validate and characterize genes involved in the interaction between barley and globally important pathogens that cause diseases such as stem rust, net form net blotch and spot form net blotch. View our publications.

Current Members

• Bob Brueggeman (Associate Professor, Robert A. Nilan Endowed Chair in Barley Research and Education)
• Shaun Clare (June 2023 – Present, Lab Manager, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
• Matthew Brooke (Jan 2020 – Present, PhD in Crop and Soil Science)
• Sadikshya Poudel (Aug 2023 – Present, PhD in Crop and Soil Science)
• Madeline Del Castillo (Aug 2021 – Present, Undergraduate in Integrated Plant Sciences)
• Aidan Kelly (Sep 2022 – Present, Undergraduate)
• Brooklyn Bailey (Sep 2023 – Present, Undergraduate in Integrated Plant Sciences)

Alumni

Staff

• Max Wood (Aug 2019 – Apr 2023)
• Sudha Upadhaya (Aug 2019 – Aug 2020)
• Pat Gross (Aug 2010 – Aug 2019)
• Tom Gross (Aug 2010 – Aug 2019)

Postdocs

• Shaun Clare (May – Jun 2022)
• Gazala Ameen (Jul 2019 – Aug 2021, Assistant Professor at SDSU)
• Shyam Solanki (Dec 2018 – Apr 2021, Assistant Professor at SDSU)
• Roshan Sharma Poudel (May 2018 – Mar 2019, Breeding Genomics Scientist at Syngenta)

Graduate Students

• Karl Effertz (PhD, Aug 2017 – May 2023, Molecular Breeder at Dewey Scientific)
• Arjun Upadhaya (PhD, Aug 2018 – May 2023, Postdoc at WSU, Chen Lab)
• Charli Faris (Graduate Student, Nov 2021 – Nov 2022, Research Assistant at Phigenics)
• Shaun Clare (PhD, Feb 2017 – May 2022, Postdoc at WSU, Brueggeman Lab)
• Cassidy Shamseldin (Rotation Student, Fall 2020)
• Wail Alsolami (PhD, Jul 2020, Assistant Professor at Jazan University)
• Abdullah Al-Hashel (PhD, Aug 2017 – Aug 2019, Completed Dec 2022 (Shengning Yang), Professor at King Saud University)
• Gazala Ameen (PhD, Aug 2014 – Jul 2019, Assistant Professor at SDSU)
• Azita Zarasvand (MSc, Jul 2019, Research Assistant at UNC, Charlotte)
• Roshan Sharma Poudel (PhD, Jan 2015 – Apr 2018, Breeding Genomics Scientist at Syngenta)
• Shyam Solanki (PhD, Aug 2013 – Dec 2017, Assistant Professor at SDSU)
• Prabin Tamang (PhD, Dec 2017, Research Geneticist at USDA)
• Jonathan Richards (PhD, Aug 2012 – Dec 2016, Assistant Professor at LSU)
• Kasia Duellman (PhD, Aug 2010 – Sep 2015, Assistant Professor at UI)
• Xue Wang (MSc, Apr 2015)
• Lauren Sager-Bittara (MSc, Jul 2012 – May 2015, Research Development Coordinator at NDSU)
• Deepika Arora (MSc, Aug 2011 – Jul 2014, Scientist at Genemarkers)

Undergraduate Students

• Kole Sagaser (Sep 2022 – Apr 2023)
• Hannah Peha (Aug 2021 – May 2023, PhD Student at UC Davis)
• Sarah Harkins (Spring 2020, Microbiologist at Mérieux NutriSciences)
• Eva Magnuson (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018)

Last updated Jun 2023