Ava Medberry
Ava Medberry is a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University working with Dr. James Simon on improving sweet basil for controlled environments. Prior to her time at Rutgers, Ava earned a master’s in plant pathology from the University of Arkansas with thesis work characterizing novel viruses in strawberry.
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