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Former Graduate Students

Emmanuel Nyarko, M.S. 2025

Thesis: Exploring Fungal Diversity and Interactions with Lecanosticta acicola in Brown Spot Needle Blight

Sylvester Menanyih, M.S. 2022

Thesis: Survey of Volatile Organic Chemicals Emitted by Four Ophiostomatoid Fungi (Not availble yet)

Debit Datta, M.S. 2021

Thesis: Identification and Distribution of Fungal Pathogens Associated with Loblolly Pine Defoliation and Tree Mortality in the Southern United states (not availible yet)

John Mensah, Ph.D. 2020

Thesis: Influence of Leptographium terebrantis S.J. Barras and T.J. Perry on Pinus taeda L. Physiology, Growth and Productivity (not yet available)

Jessica Ahl, M.S. 2019

Thesis: Ophiostomatoid Fungal Infection and Insect Diversity in a Mature Loblolly Pine Stand

Shrijana Duwadi, M.S. 2019

Thesis: Impact of Tree Inoculation by Leptographium terebrantis on Soil Microbial Communities in Commercial Loblolly Pine Stand

Pratima Devkota, Ph.D. 2017

Pratima is currrently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University. She is part of a team looking at Armillaria root rot resistance.
Dissertation: Response of Pinus taeda L. Families to Root-Inhabiting Ophiostomatoid Fungi

Andrea Cole Wahl, M.S. 2017

Andrea is currently working for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as an Environmental Compliance Specialist.
Thesis: The effect of Sirex spp. woodwasps and their fungal associates on Alabama forest health

Adam Trautwig, M.S. 2015

Adam is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the department of Plant Biology
Thesis: Microbial Communities in Cogongrass (Imperata cyclindrica (L.) Beauv.) Invaded Commercial Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) stands

Jeff Chieppa, M.S. 2015

Jeff is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University
Thesis: Interaction of Future Climate Change Scenarios of Elevated Tropospheric Ozone and Altered Rainfall on Loblolly Pine Seedlings Inoculated with Ophiostomatoid Fungi

Ben Brunson, M.S. 2013

Ben is a consulting forester for The St. Joe Company
Thesis: Impact of Imperata cylindrica on Populations of Root-feeding Bark Beetle Populations and Factors Associated with Loblolly Pine Decline in a Pinus taeda stand

Amritpal Singh, M.S. 2012

Amritpal earned his PhD from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and is now a Research Scientist for Advanta
Thesis: Variation in resistance of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and slash pine (p. elliottii Englem.) families against Leptographium and Grosmannia root fungi

Matt Meyerpeter, M.S. 2012

Matt is currently working as a Fiber Supply Manager for International Paper
Thesis: Mapping Loblolly Pine Decline Hazard and Risk across the Southeastern United States

Yuan Zeng, M.S. 2012

Yuan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University in the College of Agricultural Sciences. She is part of the Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management research group.
Thesis: Silvicultural Disturbances Affect on Root-feeding Bark Beetle Populations and the Incidence of Ophiostomatoid Fungal Species Contributing to Southern Pine Decline in Pinus taeda Stands

Jacob Thompson, M.S. 2011

Thesis: Two-year Bark and Ambrosia Beetle Diversity Study at the Talladega National Forest in the Southeastern United States

George Matusick, Ph.D. 2010

Dissertation: Pathogenicity and Virulence of Root-Inhabiting Ophiostomatoid Fungi on Pinus Species of the Southeastern United States

James Zanzot, Ph.D. 2009

James is currently teaching biology courses in the College of Sciences and Mathematics here at Auburn University.
Thesis: Biology and Ecology of Root-feeding Beetles and Ophiostomatoid Fungi in Sandhills longleaf pine stands

Roger Menard, M.S. 2007

Roger is currently working for the US Forest Service as a Plant Pathologist.
Thesis: An assessment of loblolly pine decline risk mapping system for managing loblolly pine decline sites within Red Cockaded Woodpecker (RCW) habitat

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