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Congratulations to

Sameerika Mudiyanselage and

Toi Ketehouli winning the

1st and 2nd place in the poster student competition at the 2025 Florida Phytopathological Society Meeting!

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Samuel Martins receives the

2024 Large Grant Leadership Award

from UF/IFAS Research. 

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Congratulations to Toi Ketehouli for passing the qualification exam!

Toi is now a Ph.D. candidate!

Feb. 2025

Congratulations to Roshni Panwala for passing the qualification exam!

Roshni Panwala is now a Ph.D. candidate!

Fall 2024: Discovering new talents in Martins’ lab members with a night of bowling!
What a blast!

From left to right: Toi, Mason, Samuel, Olivia, Jessica, Sammerika, Roshni Sawlani. 

A BIG congrats to Roshni Panwala for receiving the 1st place oral presentations award at the UF Plant Pathology Symposium 2024.

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A big congrats to Josie Pasche for receiving the Luis Sequeira AND the Agricultural Microbiomes Thinkathon Travel Awards to attend the American Phytopathological Society (APS) meeting #PlantHealth2023.

Martins’ Lab and collaborators are awarded a $3.5 million grant from the USDA OREI program

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Martins' Lab members (Josie, Hiago, Toi, and Samuel) presented a day-long workshop about plant  diseases for teachers from Title I schools in Florida

Congratulations Toi Ketehouli for being selected to receive the American Phytopathological Society (APS) Student Travel Award to attend and present at the national Plant Health conference in Memphis, TN #PlantHealth2024.

Celebrating with the team, from left to right: Mason, Victor, Josie, Toi, Samuel, Roshni

Martins’ Lab and collaborators are awarded a $3.5 million grant from the USDA SCRI program

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​In collaboration with researchers from Penn State University, Lehigh University, and University of Delaware the grant will support work on white button mushroom (Agaricus  bisporus) health. Martins lab's research will focus on identifying the bacterial strains causing blotch on white button mushrooms as well as finding ways to sustainably manage the disease.

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Tasting some delicious African food in celebration of Toi Ketehouli earning the Grinter Fellowship 2022-2023. Congratulations, Toi! 

From left to right: Erica, Kayleigh, Kyle, Josie, Toi, Hiago, Roshni, Carrie, Samuel

Josie (left) and Hiago (right) showing off their Phytopathology mugs and celebrating their new publication: 
The Use of Synthetic Microbial Communities (SynComs) to Improve Plant Health.

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Martins (bottom right and left) and his collaborators Emerson from UC Davis (left) and Bull from Penn State (right) presented on soil micro-predators at EcoFarm 2023 meeting in California and at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture 2023 meeting. 

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