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

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

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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

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Karan Chahal, M.S, Ph.D. @forestpathology.bsky.social · last yr.

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