Bio:
Alyssa Carrell defended her Ph.D. thesis in August 2014 as a student in the Environmental Systems program. Alyssa graduated from UC Merced 2009, where she majored in Intergrative Biology with an emphasis in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Alyssa pioneered the culture-independent characterization of endophyte communities in pine and discovered a novel, N2 fixing symbiosis in Pinus flexilis (limber pine). Alyssa is currently a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Duke University.
