Lowe-Power Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Scientists

Becca Schomer
Co-Mentored by Dr. Becky Parales
Email: raschomer@ucdavis.edu
Twitter: @becA_recA
PhD Microbiology UW-Madison
B.S. Bacteriology UW-Madison
Google Scholar
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona.

Brian Ingel
Email: bmingel@ucdavis.edu
PhD Plant Pathology UC-Riverside
B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology UC-Davis
Current Position Environmental Scientist at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Graduate Student Researchers

Jonathan Beutler
Email: jdbeutler@ucdavis.edu@ucdavis.edu
B.S. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
International Agricultural Development Graduate Group, UC Davis


For Fun: Planting Fruit Trees, Snowboarding, Biking Windy Roads, and Hiking with Butters - his Papillon
Current Position PhD student at the University of British Columbia

Junior Specialists

Jason Avalos
B.S. Global Disease Biology Jason is working jointly in the Parales lab and Lowe-Power lab at UC Davis.

Visiting Researchers

Ofir Bahar, PhD **
**Twitter: @ofirbahar
Principal Investigator from Volcani Institute, Israel (currently on Sabbatical leave)
Interests: Phytobacteriology, insect-vectored bacterial pathogens, plant-microbe interactions, Extracellular vesicles Website: Bahar lab

Mariama Carter
Twitter: @themaricart
Email: mdcarter3@wisc.edu
B.S. Microbiology Iowa State University
Visiting from the Plant Pathology PhD Program at UW-Madison
For fun: knitting, pottery, food culture, Zumba & cats (love them, but highly allergic)

#wUndergrads

Hussien Aysheh
Email: hiaysheh@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
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Yali Bai
Email: abcbai@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Statistics and Applied Mathematics dual major
For fun: cooking, reading, playing Lego, and spending time with children
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Kaitlin White
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:

Rolando Lopez
Email: rsllopez@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:

Ashley Merino
Email: ammerino@ucdavis.edu
Major: Medical and Molecular Biology (Woodland Community College)
For fun: watching shows, hiking, trying new foods

Kasey Miqueo
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:
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Henry Pomeroy
Email:
Visiting undergraduate student from the University of Sydney LinkedIn Page

Ajay Sandhar
Email: assandhar@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:

Noor Shahbaz
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:
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Nicolas Bonagura
Email:
UC Davis Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
For fun:
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Kimmy Grulla
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:
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Donnie Ca
Email:
Major: Biology with emphasis in Cellular Molecular Biology (CSU Northride)
For fun:

Rachel Chen
Email: rwchen@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Medical and Molecular Microbiology
For fun:
reading, birding, doing small magic tricks, and learning more about the sport of karuta

Rama Parasar
Email:
UC Davis Major: Biological Sciences
For fun:
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Su Tun
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:

Aracely Hernández Rivas
Email: ahernandezrivas@ucdavis.edu
A.A. Language Studies American River Community College
A.S. General Science American River Community College
A.S. Physical Science/Mathematics American River Community College
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun: I love to spend time with my boyfriend and family. I love going out to eat and just listening to music to relax.

Hashem Bkayrat
Email:
hrbkayrat@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Biomedical Engineering
For fun: Travel, Soccer, Reading, and Running

Angela Cadatal
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:
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Margery Ho
Email:
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun:
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Trung-Hieu Nguyen
Email: detnguyen@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
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Cloe Tom
Email: cetom@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Plant Biology 🌱
For fun: sewing, cooking, baking, gardening, wishing I had a cat
Current Position Junior Specialist at UC Davis

Alexandra Olyushinets
Email: asolyushinets@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
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Elizabeth (Liz) Jiang
Email: lizjiang@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Microbiology with a Statistics minor
For fun: digital art, baking, gaming, skiing
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Claudia Enriquez
Email: cpenriquez@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Major: Microbiology
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Maria Charco Munoz
Fall 2020 - Summer 2021
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
Research Project: Maria worked on the global Ralstonia project
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Darrell Sparks
Summer 2021
B.S. in Animal Science Fort Valley State University
M.S. in Biotechnology Fort Valley State University
Research Project: Darrell worked on the global Ralstonia project

Darrielle Williams
Summer 2021
B.S. in Animal, Poultry, and Veterinary Sciences Tuskegee University
For Fun: Make acrylic paintings, Read Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Finding Good Vegan Spots.
Research Project: Darrielle worked on the global Ralstonia project and on data analysis under Jonathan Beutler and Stratton Georgoulis. LinkedIn Page

Jason Avalos
Fall 2020-Spring 2021
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
Research Project: Jason was mentored by Tiffany on the Global Ralstonia Diversity meta-analysis. Jason taught himself to use MEGAX and reconstruct phylogenies using Ralstonia gene sequences from NCBI.

Grace Lankford
Winter - Spring 2021
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
Research Project: Grace was mentored by Tiffany on a meta-analysis of hospital-acquired infections with Ralstonia spp. Grace taught us a lot about how cousins of our wilt pathogens cause infections in humans.
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Elva Xian
Fall 2019-Spring 2021
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
Research Project: Elva was mentored by Stratton to develop an assay that will allow us to investigate inter-bacterial competition, cloned several knockout plasmids, and uses BLAST to compare genomic content of Ralstonia genomes.

Hang Le
Winter 2021
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology

Dayna Alyse Denver
Summer 2020
A.A. Natural Science Mt. San Antonio College
B.Sc. Microbiology at Cal Poly Pomona
Dayna is a research student from Cal Poly Pomona joining the lab through the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP). Dayna was mentored by Stratton to use BLAST to compare genomic content of Ralstonia genomes.
For fun: photography, kayaking, hiking, providing unsolicited science fun facts, getting overly excited about microbes What she did after graduating: Dayna is a M.S. student at CSU San Marcos.
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Kyle Chipman
Winter - Spring 2020
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
Research Project: Kyle was first mentored by Stratton to create knockout plasmids to make mutant bacteria. Then the covid-19 pandemic hit and Kyle and Tiffany devised a remote research project, called the Global Ralstonia Diversity meta-analysis. LinkedIn Page

Amanda Eulano
Fall 2019
Dominican College of California: Public Health
Solano Community College: A.S.T. Biology, A.A. in General Science, and A.A. in Science & Quantitative Reasoning
UC Davis Major: Global Disease Biology
For fun: shopping, hanging out with my dog 🐶, and traveling

What she did after leaving the lab: Amanda interned at Genentech.

Katie Shalvarjian
Twitter: @kshalv
BS Microbial Biology UC Berkeley
Katie was a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow working with Dr. Lowe-Power in the Lindow lab at Berkeley to investigate Ralstonia solacearum’s growth requirements in tomato xylem sap.

For fun: Rock climbing, baking bread, hiking

What she did after graduating: In Fall 2019, Katie joined Dr. Dipti Nayak’s lab at UC Berkeley where she is a research technician unraveling the mysteries of Archaea. In Fall 2020, Katie started her PhD in the Plant and Microbial Biology department at UC Berkeley.