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People
Dr. Mary Hausbeck
Employees
Brian Cortright - Research Assistant
Buck Counts - Research Assistant
Stevie Glaspie - Research Assistant
Blair Harlan - Research Assistant
Sheila Linderman - Research Assistant
Bryan Webster - Research Assistant
Jen Foster - Field Assistant

Graduate Students

Tiffany Enzenbacher
M.S. Thesis: Phytophthora capsici research.

Leah Granke
Ph.D. Research: Dispersal and survival of Phytophthora capsici.

Blair Harlan
M.S. Research: Downy mildew of coleus.

Lina Quesada-Ocampo
Ph.D. Research: Genetic diversity of Phytophthora capsici.

Ernesto Robayo-Comacho
Ph.D. Research: Downy mildew of ornamentals.

Lina Rodriguez-Salamanca
M.S. Research: Management of asparagus root rots.

 

Xiaopeng Wang
Ph.D. Research: Cylindrocarpon destructans on ginseng.

 
Graduated Students
Abigail F. Morris.  2009.  M.S. Thesis: Effect of jasmonic acid on the saponin concentration of
      American ginseng.
Jennifer M. Foster. 2009. M.S. Thesis: Management tools to control Phytophthora capsici in
     pepper and eggplant.
Catherine Erhardt.  2009.  M.S. Thesis: Developing a high-throughput, SNP-based population
     screening method for Pseudoperonospora cubensis.
Shaunta N. Hill.  2009.  Ph.D. Dissertation: Epidemiology of Alternaria panax on American ginseng
     and evaluation of a disease forecaster.
James W. Counts, Jr.  2006.  M.S. Thesis: Strategies for managing Fusarium crown and root rot on
     asparagus.
Ryan S. Bounds.  2006.  Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrating disease predictors and a reduced-risk
     fungicide and evaluating disease thresholds for late blight management in celery.
Amanda J. Gevens.  2005.  Ph.D. Dissertation: Documenting and characterizing Phytophthora
     capsici
from irrigation sater and bean in Michigan and screening for fruit resistance in cucumber.
Bryan J. Webster.  2005.  M.S. Thesis: Managing foliar blights on specialty crops.
Shaunta N. Hill. 2005. M.S. Thesis: Virulence and fungicide sensitivity of Phytophthora cactorum
     isolated from American ginseng.
Julianna K. Tuell.  2003.  M.S. Thesis: Fusarium and the asparagus miner (Ophiomyia simplex L.)
     in Michigan.
Ryan S. Bounds.  2003.  M.S. Thesis: Using scouting and disease forecasters to manage foliar
     blights of carrots.
Elizabeth A. Dorman.  2003.  M.S. Thesis: Developing a reduced risk management program to
     control Alternaria dauci and Cercospora carotae on carrots in Michigan.
Janet M. Byrne.  2002.  Ph.D. Dissertation: Epidemiology of mildews on floricultural crops.
Kurt H. Lamour.  2001.  Ph.D. Dissertation: An investigation of Phytophthora capsici on vegetable
     hosts in Michigan: Survival, spread, and response to the phenylamide fungicide mefenoxam.
Amanda K. Rinehart.  2001.  M.S. Thesis: The use of arbuscular mycorrhizae to remediate the
     effects of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. asparagi and Fusarium proliferatum.
Taylor C. Reid.  2000.  M.S. Thesis: Evaluation of strategies for the control of Fusarium crown and
     root rot of asparagus.
Nicole A. Werner.  2000.  M.S. Thesis: Genomic variation and control of Clavibacter michiganensis
    
subsp. michiganensis.
Carmen Medina-Mora.  1999.  M.S. Thesis: Genetic variation in strains of Clavibacter
     michiganensis
subsp. michiganensis and the development of bird's eye lesions on tomatoes.
Monica P. Meyer.  1997.  M.S. Thesis: Using TOM-CAST, a disease forecasting system, for timing
     fungicide sprays for purple spot of asparagus.
Laura L. Arriola.  1997.  M.S. Thesis: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Trichoderma harzianum in
     relation to border cell production and Fusarium root rot of asparagus.
Janet M. Byrne.  1996.  M.S. Thesis: Epidemiology and management of Colletotrichum coccodes
     on processing tomatoes.
Gail J. Celio.  1996.  M.S. Thesis: Evaluation of cultivar susceptibility and early development of
     powdery mildew on poinsettia.
Patricia M. Pritchard.  1995.  M.S. Thesis: Influence of DIF on the susceptibility of floral crops to
     Botrytis cinerea.