March 21, 2023 – Sam Jayasinghe received First Place and People’s Choice for PhD students and Henry Hurt received people’s choice for MS students in the CAHNRS 3 Minute Thesis competition held on March 20, 2023. » More …
February 14, 2023 – Our Vice President for Research Chris Keane visited our lab and Gleason lab as a part of the site visit to Plant Sciences Building. Cynthia Gleason, Natalia Moroz, and Kiwamu Tanaka had a great opportunity to speak with VPR Keane during the tour. Special thanks to Levi O’Loughlin for organizing this event. » More …
February 6, 2023 – Congratulations to Samodya Jayasinghe for receiving the Raymond J. Tarleton Student Fellowship for 2023 from the American Phytopathological Society. The Tarleton Fellowship is awarded to a deserving graduate student majoring in plant pathology at a university in the United States.
February 2, 2023 – Our Nanopore sequencing method for comprehensive detection of potato pathogens was published in Plant Disease. Congrats to Lauren on her first 1st author paper! » More …
January 30, 2023 – Hira Kamal gave a seminar at the Plant Pathology Seminar at WSU. » More …
August 25 & 26, 2022 – Departmental statewide meeting was held at Ensminger Pavilion, Pullman, WA. See more pictures at the Facebook page of WSU Plant Pathology Graduate Students. » More …
August 24, 2022 – Our research article entitled “Activation of indolic glucosinolate pathway by extracellular ATP in Arabidopsis” was published in Plant Physiology. » More …
July 29, 2022 – Hailey Reed (Okanogan High School, Tonasket, WA) completed a internship with the Upward Bound Program. This program is an STEM educational outreach program “Pumping Up the Math and Science Pipeline: Grade School to College” organized by Dr. David Weller and Kathleen Parker (USDA-ARS). » More …
June 21, 2022 – Nisar Anjum from University of Agriculture, Pakistan, completed his internship with the International Research Support Initiative program by Higher Education Commission (HEC). » More …
June 2, 2022 – Our online report entitled “Isothermal amplification for potato disease diagnosis: what have we learned from detection of the powdery scab pathogen?” was published in Potato Progress. » More …