Graduate Students | College of Agricultural Sciences

Photo	Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
	Fares Alzahrani	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Crop Science
	Aaron Anderson	Contact person by email	Ph.D., Horticulture
	Alexander Butcher	Contact person by email	I am studying the use of synthetic elicitors as a pest management strategy in potatoes. I am also looking at mixed infection environments with Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum vectored by the potato psyllid and potato plants infected with PVY. Crop Science option Entomology
	Emily Carlson	Contact person by email	How pesticide exposure differs between honey bees and native bees with varying landscape context. Ph.D., Horticulture
	Daniel Dalton	Contact person by email	Primary responsibilities include: Research on biological aspects of Drosophila suzukii; Examination of biological control agents that may impact Drosophila suzukii populations; Investigation of cultural controls against Drosophila... Ph.D., Horticulture
	Claire Donahoo	Contact person by email	Her PhD will focus on dispersal patterns and nontarget effects of the samurai wasp, Trissolcus japonicus, a biological control agent of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in specialty crop areas in Oregon. A native of Lincoln, NE, Claire received her BS in Fish & Wildlife Biology with a concentration in Conservation Biology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then received her MS in Entomology at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she studied mortality dynamics of... Ph.D., Horticulture
	Serhan Mermer Research Associate	Contact person by email	Ph.D., Horticulture
	Scott Mitchell	Contact person by email	I am broadly interested in invertebrate ecology in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. I am interested in studying the ecosystem effects of cattle, elk and deer grazing in rangelands riparian areas. I am particularly interested in the effects on native bee species and on flowering plant... PhD, Wildlife Science, MSc, Wildlife Science, 2020, Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching, 2020, BS, Biology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), 2015
	Anthony Mugica	Contact person by email	Biology and ecology of the Flathead borer Master of Science, Horticulture
	Kyoo Rok Park Research Associate	Contact person by email	Ph.D., Horticulture
	Ryssa Parks	Contact person by email
	Nima Rad	Contact person by email