Recent News

• I served as one of the panelists for a “Get your proposal funded webinar” hosted by American Phytopathological Society.

• I had an opportunity to attend 4 different modules from the University of washington summer workhshops.

• I received a useR diveristy scholarship 2019 from R consortium to attend R consortium in St. Louis MO (cancelled due to COVID-19).

• I started my research associate position in Dec, 2019 at Oregon State University.

• I travelled to Nepal in November to teach a “Population genetics and data analysis in R programming language workshop”. This workshop was funded by American Phytopathological Society and Oregon State University.

• I successfully defended my Ph.D. in October, 2019.

• I attended the annual Phytopathological Society meeting 2019 in August in Cleveland, OH. This year’s theme was sow, know and grow. I presented a poster on reference bias in Phytophthora infestans. You can find the abstract here and poster here

• Read our recent publication about copy number variation in late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans here.

• I received College of agriculture sciences Global experience fund from Oregon State University to teach a workshop in Nepal.

• I received Global experience program award from American Phytopathological Society (APS) Office of international programs (OIP). This award will be used to conduct a 3 day workshop on population genetics and data analyses in R programming language in Nepal.

• I am now one of the elife ambassdors for 2019.

• I presented a lighting talk “What’s in your unmapped reads?” in CGRB spring conference at Oregon State University.