I completed my B.A. in biology at Colgate University, during which I conducted research in organic synthesis, forest canopy structure, natural products biochemistry, and yeast genetics. As a plant pathology graduate student, my research in the Rose lab is funded by USDA-MGET and NSF-CSIP fellowships.
I am particularly interested in molecular host-pathogen interactions that occur at the plant cell wall and some roles of extracellular proteins expressed during infection include pathogen attack, host defense, and pathogen counterdefense. The first step in my current research was a yeast-based screen for proteins that are secreted by Phytophthora infestans and tomato during compatible interaction (infection). This screen yielded several unknown proteins from both host and pathogen and I am pursuing functional studies of a candidate in P. infestans that is conserved among other oomycetes.
Graduate Student
346 Emerson Hall Department of Plant Biology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Telephone: (+1) 607 255 2801
