Tiffany Lowe-Power, Assistant Professor, Dept Plant Pathology, UC Davis, presents "Ralstonia wilt pathogens have evolved to produce biomechanically unique biofilms that promote their rapid spread through plant xylem".

As a high school student, Tiffany was privileged to have a phenomenal biology teacher who inspired her to love microbiology, especially bacteria. As an undergrad at Georgia Tech, she participated in NSF funded cohort-based research experiences and became motivated to become a professor to also train the next generation of scientists. During her PhD at UW Madison, she became an accidental plant pathologist after switching thesis labs. Realizing that plants are important, she decided to stay in plant pathology to combine her goals of better understanding bacteria and creating opportunities to train junior scientists. Since joining UC Davis in 2019, her lab has trained 46 undergraduate researchers, largely through cohort-based research experiences.

Host: Daniel E Runcie (deruncie@ucdavis.edu)