Principal Investigator
Fun Fact: I enjoy hiking, playing tennis & pickleball, kayaking, fishing, exploring new places, and reading. The first (paying) job that I loved was as a Hamilton County (Ohio) Park Naturalist.
Research Associate II
Dr. Grace Pietsch, [email protected]
Responsibilities & Expertise: Grace shares time as lab and nursery space coordinator for Dr. Bill Klingeman and Dr. Amy Fulcher. She oversees day-to-day operations in the lab and urban nursery and landscape research facility. Grace is involved in everything from propagating cuttings, maintaining research plants, and field work to experimental design, Koch’s postulate testing, data collection and analysis, report and paper writing. She also has enhanced her molecular biology skill set and has trained graduate and undergraduate students in DNA extraction, use of lab equipment, and Best Practices for the lab.
Fun Fact: When not working, I spend my time working in my yard and garden, learning karate (someday I will be a blackbelt!), refinishing furniture & remodeling my house, hiking, and grilling out. Before UT, I spent several years as a grower for a west coast seed company. I have studied a but about annual and perennial flowers and am now (re)learning my trees and shrubs.
Graduate Students
Axel Gonzalez Murillo
PhD Student, co-advised by Dr. Kevin Moulton (UT EPP Department)
Research Project: Identification and molecular systematics of flatheaded borer beetles in the Genus Chrysobothris (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Fun Fact: I enjoy nature, taking pictures outdoors, and mountain biking. Camping is my favorite activity during summer.
Undergraduate Students
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Research Focus: My research interests involve…
Contact Dr. Klingeman [email protected] to learn about opportunities as a contributor to our lab team efforts!