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Kathleen Kanaley

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Kathleen Kanaley is a second-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold , professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell AgriTech . Originally from San Francisco, Kathleen came to Cornell AgriTech after receiving her...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Eric Branch examines a beet with fellow grad student, Pratibha Sharma

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Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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After working in the field with New York state growers, Heck, a postdoctoral associate from Brazil working in the lab of Sarah Pethybridge , associate professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, said one challenge was that too many...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
SAGES officers pose after apple picking

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Ashley Jernigan is a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech working under the direction of Kyle Wickings , associate professor of entomology. When Jernigan isn’t performing research that leads to improved soil health and crop production in New...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A woman watering plants indoors

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What kinds of research did you perform while at Cornell AgriTech , and what do you research now? My research at AgriTech focused on the Northern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne hapla, and the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans in Irish...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Man stands proudly next to TV showing his dissertation

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Like other students in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, graduate students based at Cornell AgriTech are adapting to the challenges of remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis. As students from the Geneva campus continue to...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
A man holds the branch of a plant as he shows it to a woman watching curiously

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Bill Weldon is a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech, studying under the direction of David Gadoury, senior research associate in the plant pathology and plant-microbe biology section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. What is the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Two people stand in front of a plant, inspecting the leaves

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What is the focus of your research at Cornell AgriTech? Since beginning my graduate work at Cornell, I have been involved in several research projects involving various fungal pathogens of hemp. Powdery mildew in particular has emerged as a...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
A female reaching for an apple hanging in a tree

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What drew you to the program at Cornell AgriTech? Apples! I’ve been working with tree fruit since I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, and I was previously a regional apple specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. Not only...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section