Josielle Rezende
Graduate Student
E-mail: jrezende@agcenter.lsu.edu 

Major Professor: Dr. Zhiyuan Chen
 

Education:

• 2011 – present – Ph D. student, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge-LA.

• 2010 – Research Associate,  Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge-LA.

• 2008 – 2010 – M.Sc. (Agronomy), Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil.

• 2003 – 2007 – B.Sc. (Agronomy Engineering), Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil.

Research Experience:

• 2011 – Present – Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge-LA.

• 2004 – 2007 – Internship in the Laboratory of Phytopathology at Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil.

Area of Research:

Objectives:

• Determine the responses of different soybean varieties to Cercospora leaf blight (CLB) disease.

• Determine the effect of environmental factors on CLB disease development

• Determine the source of Cercospora Kikuchii inoculums.