Completed PhD students:
2021: Matthias Salomon (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro and Prof Mike McLaughlin)
Project: The role of mycorrhizas in urban agriculture systems.
2021: Cuc Tran (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro and Dr Ron Smernik)
Project: The impact of arbuscular mycorrhizas on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and leaching in soil.
2021: Hue Ngo (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro)
Project: Optimising phosphate supply to plant by adding mixture of organic and inorganic P sources, and the effect on mycorrhizal colonisation.
2020: Binh Tran (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro)
Project: The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizas on the growth and nutrition of important food crops.
Binh (left) and Matthias (right) harvesting plants in the lab
Hue, Matthias and Cuc collecting soil in regional South Australia
Masters of Biotechnology (Plant Biotechnology) students (2018):
Ms Diem Nguyen
Project: The interaction between soil Zn, P, and mycorrhizal inoculation on Medicago truncatula nutrition and gene expression.
Mr Ahmed Al-Mutairi
Project: How do different barley cultivars varying in zinc deficiency tolerance respond to mycorrhizal inoculation?
Diem and Ahmed preparing seeds in the lab
Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes 