Kara Byrd Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

St. Charles, Louisiana

New Orleans

Maintain plant health, watering, pruning, landscape maintenance, visiting work sites with plant issues.

Hammond, La

Worker at the LSU Hammond Research Station Landscape and bed maintenance, small equipment handling, planting and removing weeds and other plants, collecting data on field trialsWorking with chili thrip colonies

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology Student, Intern, and Transient Worker for Dr. HoyWorking with sugarcane diseasesTesting or Ratoon Stunt disease and yellow leaf virus, working with Xanthomonas sp., sugarcane smut, orange and brown rust, culturing, DNA Extractions, rating diseases in the field, planting sugarcane, collecting smut whips, testing new seed treatments, working on greenhouse trials, running PCRs, disinfecting cane seed, inoculating plants in both field trials and greenhouse trialsPlant Pathology and Crop Physiology Student, Intern, and Transient Worker for Dr. Singh Extracting DNA, PCR, real-time PCR, running gel apparatuses, culturing, growing plants in the greenhouse, identifying plant diseases and pests, baiting for Phytophthora sp., entering data, creating moist chambers, making house calls, running ELISA, running coupled PCRs, running gel clean up kits, making agar, testing sample purity with the nanodrop, putting samples into long term storage

Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology Student, Intern, and Transient Worker for Dr. HoyWorking with sugarcane diseasesTesting or Ratoon Stunt disease and yellow leaf virus, working with Xanthomonas sp., sugarcane smut, orange and brown rust, culturing, DNA Extractions, rating diseases in the field, planting sugarcane, collecting smut whips, testing new seed treatments, working on greenhouse trials, running PCRs, disinfecting cane seed, inoculating plants in both field trials and greenhouse trialsPlant Pathology and Crop Physiology Student, Intern, and Transient Worker for Dr. Singh Extracting DNA, PCR, real-time PCR, running gel apparatuses, culturing, growing plants in the greenhouse, identifying plant diseases and pests, baiting for Phytophthora sp., entering data, creating moist chambers, making house calls, running ELISA, running coupled PCRs, running gel clean up kits, making agar, testing sample purity with the nanodrop, putting samples into long term storage

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Bachelor’S Degree, Plant And Soil Science- Horticultural Science

High School

Activities and Societies: Key Club, National Honor Society, Art Club