Principal Investigator
Phone: (315) 787-2337
325 Barton Lab, 15 Castle Creek Drive, Geneva, New York 14456
Technicians
Abigail Allen
Email: aw732@cornell.edu
Phone: (315) 787-2334
B.S. Geology: Environmental Earth Science, State University of New York at Oswego
323 Barton Laboratory
Olivia Morse
Email: obm3@cornell.edu
Phone: (315) 787-2334
323 Barton Laboratory
Graduate Students
Morgan Swoboda
Email: mhs338@cornell.edu
B.S. Plant and Environmental Soil Science, Entomology double major, Texas A&M University, 2019
I am interested in how sod producers can use beneficial fungi to protect their sod against root feeding herbivores. Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) have the ability to kill insect pests or suppress their feeding, and have a greater potential for providing long-term pest control throughout the production, harvest, and installation of sod under many different soil conditions. My current research is focused on identifying potential EPF that already inhabit soils of New York State and establishing successful seed treatments of EPF for use in sod production.
Science Water Calibrator
Former Lab Members
Maryam Chelkha– Post-Doctoral Researcher
Hayden Bock– Graduate Student
Ashley Jernigan– Graduate Student
Louise Roberts – Post-Doctoral Researcher
Lindsay Fennell – Graduate Student
Natalie Bray – Graduate Student
Dr. Huijie Gan -Post-Doctoral Researcher
Maxwell Helmberger – Graduate Student
Dr. Pengfei Wu – Visiting Scholar
Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. of China