Karan Chahal, M.S, Ph.D.
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forestpathology.bsky.social
Karan Chahal, M.S, Ph.D.
@forestpathology.bsky.social
Plant & Tree Pathologist | Exp. in Entomology, Mycology, Molecular Diagnostics & Population Genomics | 🍄🐞🌳 🌽 Crop & Forest Health📍 Postdoc @ MSU | Alum: UT Knoxville, PAU Ludhiana
🏇 Equestrian | 👩‍🌾 Farming | 🌱 Lactovegetarian | 🤝#Respect4All
California is just gorgeous especially its oak-dominant landscapes, yes, I’m biased, oaks are my weakness! From oak savannas to dense woodlands and oak-conifer forests, it’s breathtaking. My favorite? Those golden pastures with iconic live oaks. 🌳🌾#Dendrophile #OakSavanna
June 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
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UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!
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June 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Field work is a blast with an amazing lab crew! Huge thanks to
@PPhillipsAg, @AG__McCoy, and Jamie Walker for the awesome help setting up this unique experiment with bioformulations. Excited to track sclerotia degradation across treatments! @MartinChilvers1
June 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The sap flow sensors are up and already transmitting data! We're super proud of Ethan Wachendorf for designing and leading this experiment. Excited to see the effect of sap flow rate on disease progression and vice versa. #oakwilt #sapflow #transpiration #wilt
May 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Feels great to be back in the woods, a place that was part of my PhD journey @tmilesmsu.bsky.social . Today helping Ethan, a grad student with @MartinChilvers1, as we work on oak wilt. Showing him how to spot fungal mats and tagging more oaks for our summer experiments. #forestpathology
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A field day, saved from sunburn by thick clouds! We were out inoculating #wheat and #barley plots with Fusarium Head Blight and foliar pathogens. One of those days when the whole lab gets it done, many teammates not in the pictures! #AppliedWork #PlantPathology #PlantDisease
May 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Check out this #plantpathology starter pack by @tlowepower.bsky.social, exactly what I was looking for 😁 go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k
November 22, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Check out this wonderful MPMI starter pack by @courtneyherms.bsky.social! #plantpathology
Welcome! Check out the starter pack for plant-microbe interactions!

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November 22, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Follow current and past members from our department! and please let me know if any new handles need to be added 😉

@bertonemyia.bsky.social @adriennegorny.bsky.social @k8iebird.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/6yeqKHD
December 7, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Here it is, fellow plant pathologists, the American Phytopathological Society starter pack! please let me know if any handles are missing and I will happily add them 😁

@plantdisease.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/GFGJWTr
December 6, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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It’s here! The NC State Veggie pathology lab members starter pack, follow us for veggie adventures go.bsky.app/J9VgNLg
January 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
After 6–7 years in a basement lab, I’m still amazed by having windows and a view in my curent lab. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone or till you get it back. An office with a view feels like a luxury. Eastern redbud takes me right back to spring in eastern Tennessee! #FirstPost
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM