Welcome to Prashant Swamy who is joining Achour’s lab as a Research Associate.
Prashant is a plant biologist with an experience in a variety of disciplines such as plant pathology, next-gen technologies, plant physiology and molecular breeding. He worked in different areas of applied plant pathology in the Pacific Northwest agriculture settings with an emphasis on fungicide resistance, spray evaluations, and postharvest pathology. He earned his Ph.D. (Forestry) from the University of Georgia in 2013 after receiving his BS (1999) and MS (2001) from India. He worked as a plant pathology postdoc (2013-2017) and Research Associate (2017-2020) at the Irrigated Agriculture Research & Extension Center in Prosser in wine grape virology and sweet cherry diseases.
