Students - mestato/EPP531 GitHub Wiki

Meg Staton

  • Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
  • Research Interests: Hardwood trees, genomic databases, citizen science

Bonifer, Kyle S.

Department: Microbiology

  • Research interests: Plastic polymer degradation by Soil Microbes, Molecular Biology, Protein Biology, Assay/Screen Development

  • 5th year graduate student

  • Have never even considered using -omics for anything I study, know virtually nothing about the tools available

Ming Chen

  • Department: Genome Science and Technology
  • Research Interests: Genomic databases, Galaxy tools and workflow development.

Liu, Fang

  • Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
  • Research Interests: plant microbiome study including 16S and metagenomic data analysis

Mason, Allison R.

  • Department: Microbiology
  • Research interests: forensic microbiology, antibiotic resistance, and pathogenesis
  • New to web based 'omics' tools (though I have used one or two)

Mcdowell, Briana M.

  • Microbiology
  • Research interests: bioremediation, chlorinated solvent degradation
  • New to omics tools, but pumped to learn more. Whoot

O'Banion, Bridget

  • Department: Microbiology
  • Research interests: Microbial community interactions, biogeochemical cycling, -omics to understand uncultivated organisms
  • 1st year graduate student, B.S. from Ohio State in Environmental Science

Pound, Helena L.

  • Department: Microbiology
  • Education: B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Science, U. of TN Knoxville, M.S. Marine Biology, College of Charleston
  • Research Interests: Marine/aquatic microbial ecology, virus dynamics, bioinformatics

Schuler, Caleb G.

  • Department: Microbiology
  • Research Interests: Microbial Ecology and astrobiology.
  • First year grad student with B.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and trying really.... really hard to understand omics tools.

Tams, Robert N. (Bob)

  • Department: Microbiology
  • Research Interests: Phospholipid biosynthesis, fungal virulence research (C. albicans), gene editing techniques.
  • 5th year graduate student, got a B.S. here at UT also.
  • Currently making a web page, which is pretty cool.

Velez, Jessica M.

  • Department: Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Research Interests: Phylogenetic analysis of a fungal population, plant-fungal interactions in the presence of heavy metals
  • 3rd year graduate student
  • Involved with Ask A Scientist at UTK, a science communication and outreach non-profit

Sarah Boggess

  • Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
  • Position: Research Coordinator
  • Research Interests: Population Genetics, Fungal Genetics

Chris Wyman

  • Department: Entomology & Plant Pathology
  • Research: Population genetics of Erysiphe pulchra, the causal agent of dogwood powdery mildew

Sam Collins

Chunlei Su

Nourolah Soltani

  • Department: Entomology & Plant Pathology
  • Research Interest: Discovery of potential novel viruses from grapevine through transcriptomic analyses