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Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson defended her Ph.D. thesis in July 2015. She was the first student at UC Merced to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Emily graduated from UC Merced in 2009, where she majored in Immunology and Microbiology. For her PhD project, Emily used culturing, genome sequencing and Bacterial Rapid Detection using Optical Scattering Technology (BARDOT) to study endophytes from conifer needle and shoot tissue. During her time at UC Merced, she was involved in various outreach projects.