Postdoctoral Scholar

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology 120 (Spring 2021)
• Guest Lecturer, Food Microbiology 530 (2020)
• Ask an Expert, Carter G. Woodson Academy (2020)

Associations, Service & Leadership

• American Phytopathological Society, Member (2015 - Present)
• Community Garden Workshop Leader (2021)
• Association of Plant Pathology Scholars, Secretary (2020-2021)
• Nerd Squad: National Girls Collaborative Project, USA (2019)
• University of Kentucky Arboretum and State Botanical Garden Review Board, Student Reviewer (2017-2018)

Certifications

• Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Learning, University of Kentucky (In Progress)
• Lewis Honor College Graduate, University of Kentucky
• Certificate of Completion, KY INBRE Next Generation Sequencing Workshop

Awards & Recognition

• Gertrude Toby Perkins Scholarship, Garden Club of Kentucky (2021-2022)
• Provost Scholarship, University of Kentucky (2015-2019)
• Academic Scholarship, University of Kentucky (2018-2019)
• Thomas Poe Cooper Scholarship, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment (2017-2018)
• Bucks for Brains Summer Research Program, University of Kentucky (2017)
• Robert Laverne Elmira Scott Scholarship, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Food and Environment (2016-2017)

Publications

• Fealko, E., D. Szarka, A. Lamb, B. Amsden, J. Beale, E. Pfeufer. 2019. 'First report of black dot root rot, caused by Colletotrichum coccodes, on tomato in Kentucky high tunnels.' Plant Disease; Vol. 103, No. 8, 27 May 2019.