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Dr. Joanne Emerson
Associate Professor
E-mail: jbemerson@ucdavis.edu
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Dr. Luke Hillary
Postdoctoral Researcher
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My research interests focus on the interactions between viruses, their hosts and the environment from a One Health perspective. I am currently working on the impact of wildfire on soil viral communities and how this affects microbial functional capacity and activity. I have previously worked on the impacts of biosolids on soil viruses, wastewater-based epidemiology and the characterisation of terrestrial RNA viral communities.

 

 

Anneliek ter Horst
Ph.D. Student
Plant Pathology Graduate Group

 

 

 

Sara Geonczy
Ph.D. Student
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group

 

 

 

 

Jane Fudyma
Ph.D. Student
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group

I am investigating many aspects related to the chemistry of viruses: soil virus chemical composition, chemical drivers that influence the fate/transport of viruses, and virus-host metabolomics.

 

 

Grant Gogul
Ph.D. Student
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group

 

 

 

Lorenia Valdez
NSURP Undergraduate Researcher (remote Summer 2023)

 

 

Brandon Matsumoto
Undergraduate Researcher
Environmental Toxicology Major

 

 

 

 

 

Temiloluwa Adebiyi
Undergraduate Researcher
Global Disease Biology Major

 

 

 

 

 

Former lab members – gone but not forgotten!

 

Dr. Jess Sorensen
Former Postdoc

 

 

 

 

Dr. Christian Santos-Medellín
Former Postdoc
Now: Research Scientist at Corteva Agriscience

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ella Sieradzki
Former Postdoc
Now: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at École Centrale de Lyon

 

 

Lissangel Martinez
Former NSURP Undergraduate Researcher (remote during pandemic)

Loc (Richard) Pham
Former Undergraduate Researcher (remote during pandemic)

Tyler Kavicky
Former Undergraduate Researcher (remote during pandemic)

 

 

Amethyst Ralph
Former NSURP Undergraduate Researcher (remote during pandemic)

 

 

 

 

Winston Bess
Former Lab Tech
Now: Heather Bischel’s lab at UCD

 

 

 

Jemina Trinh
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

Devyn Durham
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

 

 

Selina Tung
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

 

Dr. Aurélie Bak
Former Project Scientist
Now: Research Lead at KWS Group

 

 

 

Dr. Laura Zinke
Former Postdoc
Now: Associate Editor at Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

 

 

Alena Schroeder
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

 

 

Rose Bolle
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

 

 

Sophia Yunanda
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

Quang Bui
Former Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

 

Eunice Chan
Former Undergraduate Researcher