Carly Skelton

Years in the program: June 2024- February 2025

Mentor: Dr. Julio Bernal

Title of Projects/Products: 

  • Carly A. Skelton, Gayan Abeysinghe, Lucia Gonzalez, Julio Bernal, Sanjay Antony-Babu. "Effects of Interaction Dynamics Between Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum Race 4(FOV4) and Their Hyphosphere Bacteria on Cotton (Gossypium barbadense) ". 2025 Annual Subtropical Agriculture and Environment Society meeting, February 27, 2025

Where I am now:

As of May 2024, I am an undergraduate Bioenvironmental Science Major. I currently work part-time at the Plant Pathology and Microbiology labs as well as part-time at the Wheat lab for Agrilife extension. I am blessed to be a junior under my hours classification but will technically be a senior next semester. Through working with the PLPM lab, I have begun to make connections that have helped me learn more about microbiology, genetics, and horticulture. I hope to continue after my undergraduate years to work as either a master’s or doctorate student, researching plant pathology and horticulture practices that could level up sustainable agriculture in the future.