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Who’s who in the Weisberg lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alexandra Weisberg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. I am interested in the role of mobile genetic elements in plant-microbe evolution. We work to understand how plants and microbes interact, as well as the role of mobile genetic elements in these symbioses. We use genomics, molecular biology, and computational methods to study populations of microbial pathogens and characterize their evolution, how pathogens spread in agricultural systems, and how new pathogen lineages emerge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Arafat Rahman<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Weisberg lab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Alex Zaccaron<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Weisberg and LeBoldus labs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Boluwatife Giwa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a PhD student in the Weisberg lab in the Botany and Plant Pathology program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate students<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Andrea Schiffer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a fourth year undergraduate pursuing a Honors Bachelor of Science in Biological Data Sciences. When I am not in\u00a0the lab, I love exploring the outdoors looking for birds and plants around\u00a0the Puget\u00a0Sound area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Hoekema<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am a third year undergraduate pursuing a degree in Biological Data Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ammon Larsen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Biological Data Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marvin Nguyen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Former lab members:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jewell M. Jung (undergraduate researcher, now a PhD student at UConn)
Sydney Thompson (undergraduate researcher)
Lauren Harmon (summer intern)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Who’s who in the Weisberg lab Alexandra Weisberg I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. I am interested in the role of mobile genetic elements in plant-microbe evolution. We work to understand how plants and microbes interact, as well as the role of mobile genetic elements in these symbioses. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"plain-container","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1750","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1750\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weisberglab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}