Gillian BERGMANN
Mira CONYERS
Alycia RASMUSSEN
Eduardo RUIZ
Susannah HALBROOK
Daksh CHHABRA
Emily DOUGHERTY
Tiffany LAM
Siyuan LIU
Kacie LUI
Yousuf MUSTAFA
Conrad TANG
Kelly TOBIN
Shiyu WANG
Gillian BERGMANN
Ecology Ph.D. candidate, in the lab since Fall 2020
gbergmann (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Gillian is researching the contributions of floral transmission to bacterial community assembly in developing seeds. She is broadly interested in the following aspects of microbial ecology: species interactions, landscape and metacommunity ecology, relationships with functional traits and community assembly. Website: gebergmann.weebly.com.
Mira CONYERS
Microbiology Ph.D. candidate, in the lab since Spring 2022
mmconyers (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
For her project, Mira tests a range of microbials, including Collimonas strains, for their ability to protect strawberry and other plants against pathogens.
Alycia RASMUSSEN
Microbiology Ph.D. candidate, in the lab since Spring 2022
arrasmussen (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Aly studies the photodegradation of bacterially produced indole 3-acetic acid (IAA).
Eduardo RUIZ
Microbiology Ph.D. candidate, in the lab since Spring 2021
emruiz (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Eduardo is interested in the biology and ecology of bacterial symplasmata and multicellularity, in the context of phyllosphere microbiology.
Susannah HALBROOK
Postdoc, in the lab since Winter 2025
shalbrook (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Susannah investigates how disease may alter the rhizosphere and plant microbiomes of carrots and how we can utilize microbiomes to predict and combat agricultural diseases.
Kacie LUI
UC Davis Honors student majoring in Human Biology, in the lab since Fall 2022
For her Honors thesis, Kacie is working with Gillian Bergmann on how different Bacillus strains reduce the effects of Fusarium wilt in watermelon seedlings.
Yousuf MUSTAFA
UC Davis student majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the lab since Fall 2022
Yousuf M. is a former student (2021) in COSMOS Cluster 7. He is working with Eduardo Ruiz on the isolation of bacteriophages from the phyllosphere.
Conrad TANG
UC Davis student majoring in Human Biology, in the lab since Winter 2024
Conrad works with Aly Rasmussen to eludicate the mechanism(s) by which the phyllosphere-native bacterium Pseudomonas putida 1290 responds to indole 3-acetic acid (IAA).