Fletcher Halliday is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. He is broadly interested in understanding patterns of parasite diversity and abundance in a changing world. His work focuses on the community ecology of infectious diseases, plant community ecology, and species invasions in a variety of systems.
Nicolas Zurbuchen is a PhD student in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zürich. He is interested in plant biodiversity; inter- and intraspecific trait variation; and host responses to pathogens, herbivores, and drought using plants from a 1100-meter elevational gradient in Southeastern Switzerland.
Aram Kübler is a MSc student in Biology at the University of Zürich. She is interested in how biodiversity influences disease risk, and how that relationship is altered by the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Her project uses plant mesocosms in the greenhouse and the focal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani which causes damping-off disease.
Isabelle Stiver is a PhD student in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. She is interested in microbial facilitation of disease and will be working with the host plant, Dactylis glomerata in its native range (Switzerland), and its introduced range (Oregon), as well as in agricultural production areas where it is grown for seed and forage.
