Karan Chahal, M.S, Ph.D.

We're hiring! Join our team as Research Assistant II at the Field Crops Pathology Program. If you're passionate about plant disease research, field operations, and supporting innovative ag science, we want to hear from you. Deadline: Dec 30. @plantdisease.bsky.social
careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

11.12.2025 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

California is just gorgeous especially its oak-dominant landscapes, yes, I’m biased, oaks are my weakness! From oak savannas to dense woodlands and oak-conifer forests, it’s breathtaking. My favorite? Those golden pastures with iconic live oaks. 🌳🌾#Dendrophile #OakSavanna

24.06.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

University of California, Riverside - Jobs UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

04.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 25    🔁 40    💬 2    📌 1

Field work is a blast with an amazing lab crew! Huge thanks to
@PPhillipsAg, @AG__McCoy, and Jamie Walker for the awesome help setting up this unique experiment with bioformulations. Excited to track sclerotia degradation across treatments! @MartinChilvers1

03.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The sap flow sensors are up and already transmitting data! We're super proud of Ethan Wachendorf for designing and leading this experiment. Excited to see the effect of sap flow rate on disease progression and vice versa. #oakwilt #sapflow #transpiration #wilt

22.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feels great to be back in the woods, a place that was part of my PhD journey @tmilesmsu.bsky.social . Today helping Ethan, a grad student with @MartinChilvers1, as we work on oak wilt. Showing him how to spot fungal mats and tagging more oaks for our summer experiments. #forestpathology

22.05.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

A field day, saved from sunburn by thick clouds! We were out inoculating #wheat and #barley plots with Fusarium Head Blight and foliar pathogens. One of those days when the whole lab gets it done, many teammates not in the pictures! #AppliedWork #PlantPathology #PlantDisease

13.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Check out this #plantpathology starter pack by @tlowepower.bsky.social, exactly what I was looking for 😁 go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k

22.11.2024 13:09 — 👍 41    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 3

Check out this wonderful MPMI starter pack by @courtneyherms.bsky.social! #plantpathology

22.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Follow current and past members from our department! and please let me know if any new handles need to be added 😉

@bertonemyia.bsky.social @adriennegorny.bsky.social @k8iebird.bsky.social

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07.12.2024 14:16 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here it is, fellow plant pathologists, the American Phytopathological Society starter pack! please let me know if any handles are missing and I will happily add them 😁

@plantdisease.bsky.social

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06.12.2024 00:48 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

It’s here! The NC State Veggie pathology lab members starter pack, follow us for veggie adventures go.bsky.app/J9VgNLg

27.01.2025 22:50 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

After 6–7 years in a basement lab, I’m still amazed by having windows and a view in my curent lab. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone or till you get it back. An office with a view feels like a luxury. Eastern redbud takes me right back to spring in eastern Tennessee! #FirstPost

07.05.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0