Rachel Kalicharan
@micro_rach
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PhD Student @UF_MCS studying Rice Blast disease • Fernandez Lab • Interested in Microbiology, Plant Pathology, and Host-Pathogen Interactions 🌾✨🍄
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Joined January 2023
Last day of #FPS2025 - See you in 2027! @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFPlantPath @ufifasnfrec @plantdisease @sd_aps @UFCALS @UF_IFAS @FDACSDPI @UFIFAS_IRREC @Cano_Lab
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Had an absolutely amazing time at #FPS2025 meeting other plant pathologists and seeing their incredible work!! Also very honored to be the recipient of 1st place award for best student oral presentation!! Thank you!! ✨🌾@FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFPlantPath @UF_MCS @j_fernandezlab
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Great Fern lab representation at #fps2025 @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFCALS @UF_IFAS @UF_MCS Huge congrats to @micro_rach on winning first place for oral presentation! So proud! 💓👏
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The "Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular, and Genomic Details of Cereal Crop Diseases" focus issue is now available online! This MPMI focus issue explores major pathogens and pests of wheat, rice, barley, maize, and oats—offering new insights into exploitable pathogen weakness and
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Get a First Look! 👇 🌾🌍 Triple Threat: How Global Fungal Rice and Wheat Pathogens Utilize Comparable Pathogenicity Mechanisms to Drive Host Colonization https://t.co/K5xVsykJZt
@micro_rach @j_fernandezlab
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Plant pathogens pose significant threats to global cereal crop production, particularly for essential crops such as rice and wheat, which are fundamental to global food security and provide nearly...
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Had a great evening helping to decorate the lab door! It was a fun bonding time with my students. 💙 @micro_rach
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Fern lab team at PMCB Symposium Great student talks and beautiful ocean views! Very good combination @UF_MCS @micro_rach
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Exciting seminar by @j_fernandezlab from @UF_MCS today! Really great to have you visit us @ArkansasEPP!
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So honored to be one of the travel awardees for #2023ISMPMI !! Looking forward to a week of learning about the current research at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions and meeting the talented scientists behind it!
Roger @RogerInnes1 welcoming the #2023ISMPMI Travel Awardees and introducing the workshop on career alternatives
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Don’t miss the latest paper from @j_fernandezlab on the latest findings of M. oryzae’s effectors! The Phantom Menace: latest findings on effector biology in the rice blast fungus | SpringerLink ⬇️
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aBIOTECH - Magnaporthe oryzae is a hemibiotrophic fungus responsible for the economically devastating and recalcitrant rice blast disease. However, the blast fungus is not only restricted to rice...
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Check out one of the latest papers from our lab, which is also my first publication and co-authorship!! Regulating Death and Disease: Exploring the Roles of Metacaspases in Plants and Fungi ⬇️
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Identified over twenty years ago and distantly related to animal caspases are a group of cysteine proteases known as metacaspases. Throughout the years, much like caspase roles in metazoans, metaca...
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