Lab Members

Tera Pitman

Staff Research Associate and Lab Manager
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: tlpitman@ucdavis.edu

M.S., Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
B.S., Biological Sciences emphasis in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis.

Areas of interest: Applied plant virology with a focus towards diagnostics development and validation, which bridges the gap between academia and real world support for growers and producers

Yen-Wen Kuo

Assistant Project Scientist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: ywkuo@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Areas of interest: Plant pathology, plant virology, plant and insect molecular virology, virus-host interaction, RNA interference, microRNA, artificial microRNA

 

Jun Jiang

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: junjiang@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D., Virology and Immunology, Université du Québec, Canada
M.S., Microbiology, Central China Normal University, China
B.S., Biology and Chemistry, Central China Normal University, China

Areas of interest: Plant virology and insect virology

Anna Erickson

Ph.D. Student
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: acerickson2290@gmail.com

B.S., Entomology, University of California, Davis

Areas of interest: Insect vectored viruses/pathogens, biology of vector borne diseases, and viral mixed infections

Sandra Vu

Master’s Student
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: sanvu@ucdavis.edu

B.S., Plant Sciences emphasis in Plant Breeding, University of California, Davis
Areas of interest: Small viral proteins and where to find them

Curtis Carlson

Junior Specialist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: ccarlson@ucdavis.edu

B.S., Global Disease Biology, University of California, Davis

Areas of Interest: Entomology, insect physiology and development, disease-vector-host interactions, comparative genomics, and bioinformatics

Alicja Bednarska

Junior Specialist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: abednarska@ucdavis.edu

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis
A.S., Biological Sciences, De Anza College

Areas of interest: Molecular virology, molecular biology, and genetics

Tanvi Rawat

Junior Specialist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: trawat@ucdavis.edu

B.S., , University of California, Davis

Areas of interest:

Isaac Coria

Junior Specialist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: icoria@ucdavis.edu

B.S., Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Areas of interest: Molecular Biology

 

Undergraduate Interns:

Lia Williams