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Punya Nachappa

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Assistant Professor
Email: punya.nachappa@colostate.edu
Office: C028 Plant Sciences
​Phone: 970-481-6882


Current Lab Members

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Tessa Albrecht
Research Scientist

Tessa is also our lab manager. She is involved in a number of projects, but her focus is the molecular interaction between wheat curl mite and mite-transmitted viruses. 

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Jacob Pitt
PhD student
B.S. (Ecosystem Science and Sustainability) Colorado State University
Email: jacob.pitt@colostate.edu
Jacob is studying the impact of plant species diversity on PVY transmission by aphid vectors.




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Judy Chiginsky
MS student (co-advised with Dr. Vamsi Nalam)
B.S. (Entomology) University of California Davis
Email: judy.chiginsky@colostate.edu
Judy's research is focused on the effects of beet curly top virus on its vector beet leafhopper. 

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Samantha White
Will start her MS in Fall 2020
​Email: slwhite@rams.colostate.edu
Sam is working on the impact of wheat curl mite microbiome on mite virulence and virus transmission.

Undergraduate students 
Emily Villa (Spring 2020-current)
​Chris Hayes (Spring 2020-current)
Katie Langemeier (Fall 2019-current)
Emilie Carroll (Fall 2019-current)
Billy Poon Wing Bill (Fall 2018-Fall 2019)

Former Lab Members (In my previous life at Purdue Fort Wayne)

Graduate Students
Jinlong Han (2014-2017): Ph.D., Department of Entomology and Plant Pathogy, North Carolina State University)
Christopher Culkin (2012-2014): Research scientist, Agdia Inc
Stacy Keough (2013-2015): Senior Research Scientist, Zimmer Biomet, Warsaw, Indiana

Undergraduate Students

Kedric Milholand
Dianne Nigaglioni and Carolina Hernandez: B.S., University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
​Tyler Shuman
Min Jung Kim: DVM, University of Minnesota Veterinary School
Sameha Albayyari
Adam Lennon
​Damini Handa: MS, Doermer school of Business, Purdue Fort Wayne
Erina Sarker
Jenna Davidson: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

High school students
Regina Thomas (Upward Bound Pre-professional Program 2017)
Marisabel Sanchez (Upward Bound Pre-professional Program 2016)
Chengyu Bi, Homestead High School
​Sanjana Sai, Homestead High School




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