Current Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Bochra A. Bahri

Associate Professor of Turfgrass and Forage Pathology

Department of Plant Pathology

Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

bbahri@uga.edu


Graduate Students

Susmita Sigdel

Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.)

Department of Plant Pathology

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

Susmita.sigdel@uga.edu


Former Post-doctoral Researchers

Dr. Bikash Ghimire

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Current: Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Pathology

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

bikash.ghimire@uga.edu

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Dr. Rajiv Krishna Parvathaneni

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Department of Plant Pathology

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

rajiv555@uga.edu


Former Graduate Students

Samikshya Rijal

Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.)

Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

Graduated May, 2025.

s.rijal@uga.edu

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Harshita Saxena

Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.)

Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

Current: Post-doctoral Researcher at University of Kentucky

hsa293@uky.edu

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Willis Turner Spratling

Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.)

Department of Plant Pathology

University of Georgia, Griffin, GA

tsprat@uga.edu

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