Our undergraduate researcher Ms. Luiza Wataki has won the prestigious University Scholars Program (USP) award. This competitive award based on a project proposal submission will pay Luiza to lead and work on this specific project during the Fall 2026 semester.

We are all excited!

Here is more information on the USP: https://clas.ufl.edu/undergraduate/clas-university-scholars/ 

The Haarith lab officially begins operations on the 17th of September 2025.

Our four excellent undergraduate researchers started training to work with root-knot nematodes (RKN). Thank you Crow Lab (Chris and Wade) for training our students!

L to R: Andrea Barrios, Avril Rosano, Deepak Haarith, Luke Davis and Luiza W. de Freitas