Haley Burrill

I came to Kansas during the summer of 2018 after completing my BS in Plant Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. At UCSC, I was involved in a plant disease ecology lab where I did my undergraduate thesis research. After graduating, I spent a year working in the desert doing invasive species removal in Utah and botany transects in the Nevada’s Spring Mountains. Summer 2020, I completed my master’s work, which explored the response of fungal plant pathogens to plant species richness and phylogenetic relatedness. I decided to stay in the lab for my PhD to build off my master’s research analyzing the response of other microbial communities in the same experiment and exploring pathogen accumulation in both invasive species monocultures and native prairie restorations.