Third ECaFSS Student Symposium 2018-2019

Third ECaFSS Student Symposium

Isabel Escalera Undergraduate Student Department Of Agro-Environmental Sciences Isabel Escalera is an undergraduate student in the Department of Agro-Environmental Sciences with a major in Agronomy at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. She has been actively involved in undergraduate research in areas of Entomology, Agronomy and Plant Pathology. She joined the ECaFSS Project…

Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón

Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón ECaFSS Scholar since: January 2017 Education: B.S. Crop Protection – UPRM Expected Graduation Date: May 2020 Research: Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón has actively participated in investigations of Phytopathology areas, as fungus, oomycetes and bacterias, being advised by Dr. Lydia Rivera and Ing. Lorena Simbaña. The investigation project centers in the…

Víctor Montalvo Carlo

Víctor Montalvo Carlo ECaFSS Scholar since: August 2018 Research: Endophytic fungi associated with descending death and necrosis in Mangifera indicates the Botryosphaeriaceae family encompass genres and species of fungi typically endophytic and pathogenic opportunists, meaning, those that become pathogenic under stress conditions in the plant. They have been reported to be affecting the foliar…

Paola Álvarez

Paola Álvarez Undergraduate Student Department of Animal Science Paola Álvarez obtained a B.S. in Animal Science (2019) from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. She joined the ECaFSS project in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Leyda Ponce de León where she worked on the effect of ginger powder in the keeping quality of…

Jian M. Zayas Declet

Jian M. Zayas Declet ECaFSS Scholar since: August 2019 Expected Graduation Date: May 2021 Research: The job consists on elaborating methods of eradication of endophytes organisms in tissue culture of Dioscorea rotundata. These following processes were developed under the same job: isolate, identify and eliminate phytopathogenic organisms such as: bacteria and fungi to obtain tissues…

Christopher Rivera Torres

Christopher Rivera Torres ECaFSS Scholar since: January 2017 Expected Graduation Date: December 2019 Research: Susceptibility of Colletotrichum spp. to Antimicrobial Peptides and Combinatorial Treatments. Christopher Rivera Torres currently works with Dra. Patricia Ortíz in collaboration with Dr. Lydia I. Rivera, Dr. Merari Feliciano and Ms. Lorena Simbaña in the investigation project. The principal objective…

Lydia I. Rivera Vargas, Ph.D.

PI of the NIFA ECaFSS Project

Lydia I. Rivera Vargas, Ph.D. Plant Pathologist/Professor Dept.Agro-Environmental Sciences University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez, P.R. 00681 Tel.(787) 265-3852 ó (787) 832-4040 ext. 2351, 2313 Fax:(787) 265-3884 e-mail: lydiai.rivera@upr.edu Dr. Lydia I. Rivera-Vargas has a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from The Ohio State University and a M.S. in Biology (Mycology) from UPRM. She is the PI…

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