Angel Avalos
angavalos@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Bart Weimer
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, agricultural microbiomes, bioinformatics
Lalita Bechtold
lbechtold@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Andreas Bäumler
Undergraduate Institution: Freie University of Berlin
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, microbiomes, gut dysbiosis
Amelia Bennett
ambennett@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Angela Gelli
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Research Interests: Host Microbe interactions of fungal pathogens
Jordan Boeck
jmboeck@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Heather Bischel
Undergraduate Institution: St. Mary’s College of California
Research Interests: Virus Proteomics and Wastewater-based Epidemiology
Lizbeth Camacho
lizcamacho@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Renee Tśolis
Undergraduate Institution: CSU Northridge
Research Interests: Host Microbe Interactions
Titash Chatterjee
tchatterj@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Heather Bischel
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Wastewater Microbiome, Applied Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology
Shawn Christensen
smchristensen@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Rachel Vannette
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Evolution, plant-pollinator-microbe interactions, microbial ecology, palynology (the study of pollen)
Mira Conyers
mmconyers@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Johan Leveau
Undergraduate Institution: Oberlin College
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, endophytes, plant pathology
Christian Erikson
cberikson@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Jorge Rodrigues
Undergraduate Institution: San Diego State University
Research Interests: Community assembly in wildfire-affected soils, and forest and ag soil health
Julia Finestone
jfinestone@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: David Mills
Undergraduate Institution: Boston University
Research Interests: Probiotic bacteria, host-microbe interactions
Adam Fishburn
atfishburn@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Priya Shah
Undergraduate Institution: UC Merced
Research Interests: Tropical Infectious Diseases
Charles Graddy
cmgraddy@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Douglas Nelson
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Microbial ecology
Brittany Greenwood
bblankenship@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Christopher Simmons
Undergraduate Institution: Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Microbial interactions, microbial ecology, sustainable agriculture, plant pathology, biotechnology
Nicholas Hilton
nhilton@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Scott Dawson
Undergraduate Institution: Brown University
Research Interests: Eukaryotic parasites, cellular biology, host pathogen interaction
Hannah Houts
hehouts@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: C. Titus Brown
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Microbial evolution and ecology
Nithya Krishnakumar
nkumar@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Danielle Lamay
Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
Research Interests: Diet, microbe, host interactions
Dylan Lanser
dmlanser@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Angela Gelli
Undergraduate Institution: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Research Interests: Host Microbe Interactions
Annika Lee
lhslee@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Su-Ju Lin
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Microbial metabolism and molecular genetics
Clancy Lee
cjulee@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Dennis Hartigan-O’Connor
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Interactions between host immune system and viruses as vectors for delivery of therapeutic technologies
Scott Mahan
spmahan@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Andreas Bäumler
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Gut microbiome research, bacterial pathogenesis
Kaylah Marcello
kmmarcello@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Dawn Sumner
Undergraduate Institution: Michigan State University
Research Interests: Host Microbe Interactions
Erin Markle
edmarkle@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Stefan Rothenburg
Undergraduate Institution: Colorado State University
Research Interests: Virology, biotechnology, and host-microbe interactions of viruses, specifically how viruses evade the host innate immune response
Stephanie Martinez-Beltran
smbeltran@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Jeroen Saeij
Undergraduate Institution: UC Riverside
Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions, neglected tropical diseases, and protozoan cellular/molecular biology
Courtney Mattson
clmattson@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Sam Díaz-Muñoz
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests: Genetic exchange and evolution in segmented RNA bacteriophages
Claire Morris
clamorris@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Stephen McSorley
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego
Andres Orea
ajorea@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Angela Gelli
Undergraduate Institution: CSU Bakerfield
Research Interests: Eukaryotic pathogens, host pathogen interactions
Shruti Parikh
sparikh@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Christopher Simmons
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Research Interests: Community ecology of microbes in food waste and agricultural systems, fungal-bacterial interactions, and sustainable agriculture
Sebastian Perez-Orozco
sjperezorozco@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Sebastian Winter
Undergraduate Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Research Interest: Host and microbe interactions, bacterial metabolism.
Tyler Powell
tpowell@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Dawn Sumner
Undergraduate Institution: California State, Los Angeles
Alycia Rasmussen
arrasmussen@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Johan Leveau
Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
Abigail Ray
abray@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Bennett Penn
Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, microbial ecology
Mary Riley
myriley@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: David Mills
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Molecular biology and physiology of microbes
Andrew Rogers
awrogers@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Andreas Bäumler
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Bacterial Pathogenesis, Biofilms, and Bacterial Physiology
Lezlie Rueda
lrueda@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Karen Shapiro
Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
Research Interests: Zoonotic parasites, protozoan pathogen pollution, pathogen transmission dynamics
Eduardo Ruiz
emruiz@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Johan Leveau
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: The biology and ecology of bacterial multicellularity, plant-microbe interactions
Muhammad Adil Salim
asalim@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Ilias Tagkopoulos
Undergraduate Institution: University of Peshawar
Research Interests: Microbial systems biology
Dino Sbardellati
dlsbardellati@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Rachel Vannette
Undergraduate Institution: Sonoma State University
Research Interests:
Cory Schlesener
cschlesener@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Bart Weimer
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas, Austin
Research Interests: Microbial evolution and ecology
Subah Soni
susoni@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Pamela Ronald
Undergraduate Institution: Monmouth University
Research Interests: Environmental microbiomes, plant-microbe interactions, sustainability agriculture
Jessica Trinh
jetrinh@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Gitta Coaker
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: The discovery and evolution of immunogenic proteins in plant pathogenic bacteria
Keywords: bacterial evolution/bioinformatics, plant immunity, plant-microbe interactions
C. Joy E. Walters
cewalters@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Satya Dandekar
Undergraduate Institution: Point Loma Nazarene University
Research Interests: Microbial community dynamics in the mammalian GI tract; interactions between gut microbes and host immune system; gastrointestinal disease.
Lei Wei
leiwei@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Maria Marco
Undergraduate Institution: Wellesley College
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, microbial impacts on nutrition and human health, proteomics
Joseph Williams
joswilliams@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Scott Dawson
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Molecular biology and physiology of microbes
Yuanji ‘Teddy’ Zhou
zyjzhao@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Sanchita Bhatnagar
Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
Research Interests: Epigenetic of X-chromosome related diseases
Alexander Zerkle
ajzerkle@ucdavis.edu
Research Mentor: Scott Dawson
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Evolutionary cell biology, cytoskeletal biology, non-model systems