Rachel Kalicharan

PhD Candidate @UF_MCS studying Rice Blast disease • Fernandez Lab • Interested in Microbiology, Plant Pathology, and Host-Pathogen Interactions 🌾✨🍄

[Rachel Kalicharan @micro_rach]

Excited about this one!!

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

Nutrient utilization and degradative enzyme activity of the dragon fruit canker pathogen, Neoscytalidium dimidiatum https://t.co/lZuk6MDGZw #biorxiv_micrbio

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Spectacular fruit! 🥭 🍇🍓🍒🍑🍊🍌 #Taiwan 🇹🇼

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Last day of #FPS2025 - See you in 2027!

@FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFPlantPath @ufifasnfrec @plantdisease @sd_aps @UFCALS @UF_IFAS @FDACSDPI @UFIFAS_IRREC @Cano_Lab

#PlantHealthDay #planthealth

[Rachel Kalicharan @micro_rach]

Had an absolutely amazing time at #FPS2025 meeting other plant pathologists and seeing their incredible work!! Also very honored to be the recipient of 1st place award for best student oral presentation!! Thank you!! ✨🌾@FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFPlantPath @UF_MCS @j_fernandezlab

[Jessie Fernandez @j_fernandezlab]

Great Fern lab representation at #fps2025 @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @UFCALS @UF_IFAS @UF_MCS
Huge congrats to @micro_rach on winning first place for oral presentation! So proud! 💓👏

[MPMI Journal @MPMIjournal]

The "Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular, and Genomic Details of Cereal Crop Diseases" focus issue is now available online! This MPMI focus issue explores major pathogens and pests of wheat, rice, barley, maize, and oats—offering new insights into exploitable pathogen weakness and novel mitigation strategies to improve crop health. 🌾

Explore the issue: https://t.co/1bk6cdL9mc

[MPMI Journal @MPMIjournal]

Get a First Look! 👇

🌾🌍 Triple Threat: How Global Fungal Rice and Wheat Pathogens Utilize Comparable Pathogenicity Mechanisms to Drive Host Colonization

https://t.co/K5xVsykJZt

@micro_rach @j_fernandezlab

[Jessie Fernandez @j_fernandezlab]

Had a great evening helping to decorate the lab door! It was a fun bonding time with my students. 💙 @micro_rach

[Jessie Fernandez @j_fernandezlab]

Fern lab team at PMCB Symposium
Great student talks and beautiful ocean views! Very good combination @UF_MCS @micro_rach

[Martin Egan @egan_martin]

Exciting seminar by @j_fernandezlab from @UF_MCS today! Really great to have you visit us @ArkansasEPP!

[Dr. Laura Boykin Okalebo @laura_boykin]

Table 3 student travel awardees! Thank you @ISMPMI #2023ismpmi ❤️

[Rachel Kalicharan @micro_rach]

So honored to be one of the travel awardees for #2023ISMPMI !! Looking forward to a week of learning about the current research at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions and meeting the talented scientists behind it!

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Roger @RogerInnes1 welcoming the #2023ISMPMI Travel Awardees and introducing the workshop on career alternatives

[Rachel Kalicharan @micro_rach]

Don’t miss the latest paper from ⁦@j_fernandezlab⁩ on the latest findings of M. oryzae’s effectors!

The Phantom Menace: latest findings on effector biology in the rice blast fungus | SpringerLink ⬇️ https://t.co/1q577QaEMM

[Rachel Kalicharan @micro_rach]

Check out one of the latest papers from our lab, which is also my first publication and co-authorship!!

Regulating Death and Disease: Exploring the Roles of Metacaspases in Plants and Fungi ⬇️ https://t.co/mHXCvwbbR8