Welcome to the Arif Lab
About Us
The population of the world will increase by 2.4 billion people in next three decades. New approaches are needed to sustainably increase global crop productivity to feed the growing world’s population. Sustainable disease management is critical to continue stable production of a safe food supply with high yield. Our group is using ‘omics’ technologies to understand the disease epidemiology. We are working on plant microbiome, population genetics, interactions and comparative genomics. Also, we develop novel isothermal and lab based protocols for applications in routine diagnostics, biosecurity and microbial forensics.
New Graduate Student
August 2017: Gamze Boluk started as graduate student
Adriana WON PEPS Best MS Poster Award in CTAHR Student Research Symposium 2017
April 2017: Adriana Larrea won PEPS Best MS Poster Award in CTAHR Student Research Symposium 2017. The title of her Research Poster was "Core- and Pan-Genome Analyses of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris: Black Rot Pathogen of Crucifers"
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Plant Biosecurity in Theory and Practices
May 2017: Arif and Adriana participated in a one week long course of Plant Biosecurity in Theory and Practice at Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Arif was an invited speaker and delivered a talk on "The Select Agent Rathayibacter toxicus: High Consequence Bacteria of Biosecurity Concern". He was also an instructor for hands on training inside the containment facility.
First student in our program!
January 2017: Adriana Larrea from Ecuador started in January 2017 as a first student in our program. She will be working on Xanthomonas axonopodis and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis.
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