• Postdoctoral Research Associate North Carolina State University                      July 2017–July 2019

• Kansas State University                    Aug. 2014–July 2017                        Biological and Functional characterization, detection and field assays of Kansas yellow dwarf virus isolates.                                  Postdoctoral Adviser: Dr. Dorith Rotenberg

• Doctor of Philosophy, Plant Science, University of Arkansas                  December 2014

      Dissertation title: The phenotypic                effects and transcript response of salt          stress and the impact of viral infection        on salt stress symptoms in soybean            varieties that vary in chloride uptake.          Dissertation Adviser: Dr. Kenneth              Korth

• Master of Science, Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas                        December 2010

      Thesis title: Characterization of the            causal agents of Rose rosette

      and Redbud yellow ringspot.

      Thesis Adviser: Dr. Ioannis Tzanetakis

• Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, Oregon State University                  June 2008

      Undergraduate research project on              turnip yellow mosaic virus.

      Adviser: Dr. Theo Dreher

• Associates of Arts Oregon Transfer, Southwestern Oregon Community College   

     June 2004

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