Meet the Team
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Jim Baird, Ph.D. Turfgrass Specialist - @UCRturfgrass Email Research Interests: Saving turfgrass in California and the Southwest |
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Marta Pudzianowska, Ph.D. Assistant Researcher - @UCRturfbreeding Email Research Interests: Turfgrass breeding, plant secondary metabolites |
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Pawel Orlinski Junior Specialist - @OrlinskiPawe Research Interests: Allelopathy, medicinal plants, statistical and chemometric analysis, data mining |
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Sandra Glegola Junior Specialist Research Interests: |
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Christian S. Bowman Ph.D. Candidate - @csbowman Research Interests: Turfgrass breeding and genetics |
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Luiz H. Monticelli Laboratory Assistant
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Taylor Oliver Laboratory Assistant Research Interests: |
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Valentina Bindi Laboratory Assistant Research Interests: |
Past Team Members
Lab Members | Graduate Students |
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Matteo Serena, PhD (Sr. Mgr. - Irrigation research, USGA) | Tyler Mock, PhD (Assistant Cotton Breeder, BASF) |
Pawel Petelewicz, PhD (Assistant Professor, UF/IFAS) | Ryan Nichols, MS (Regional Sales Manager, NuFarm; Western U.S.) |
Marco Schiavon, PhD (Assistant Professor, UF/IFAS) | Alea Pedroza, MS (FMC Market Specialist, T&O and Structural Solutions) |
Mingying Xiang, PhD (Assistant Professor, West Texas A&M) | Nicholas Hoisington, MS (Golf Course Superintendent, River's Edge; OR) |
Priti Saxena, PhD (Assistant Professor, CalPoly Pomona) | Brent Barnes, MS (Ornamental Plant Breeder, Plant21 LLC) |
Fayek Negm, PhD | |
Toan Khuong, MS (Associate Specialist, UCR) | |
Vanessa Ferrel, MD (Bronx, NY) | |
Brandon Lehman Chiara Ferrari Chiara Toniatti Brooke Gomez Diego Ibarra-Cruz Victor Herrera Alessio Forconi Ada Baldi Antonio Verzotto Kataryzna Jagiello-Kubiec Magali Lopez Giulio Cremonese Martino Cuccagna Andrea Feo Jacob Gray Katarzyna Zak Magda Poleska |