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Robyn Roberts

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Robyn Roberts

Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology
Agricultural Biology

Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Plant Pathology, 2016, Ph D
Indiana University, Biology, 2011, BS


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Robyn Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Agricultural Biology department. Her group's research focuses on diseases of wheat and other field crops with motivations to understand the molecular interactions between plants and microbes. Particularly, her research group studies viral and bacterial diseases, molecular plant-pathogen interactions, and plant immunity. Her group works on emerging diseases and examining changes in pathogen populations in the face of climate change.