Current Students

Lacey Mount

Lacey MountLacey received her bachelor’s degree is in botany from UF, and began her DPM studies in the fall semester of 2006. After the first year assistantship from the program ended, she was awarded an assistantship in the Forest Pathology Lab with Jason A. Smith, Ph.D. There she was involved in disease sample collection and identification, as well as extension visits and attending professional society meetings. She completed additional internship hours with Dr. Smith, as well as Dr. James E. Barrett of the Environmental Horticulture Department. She presented a poster with her work on melampsora rust overwintering strategies and new host associations at the American Phytopathological Society Centennial Meeting in Minneapolis, MN (July 2008). She also gave a formal presentation at the Florida-Caribbean Division APS Meeting in May 2009. There she outlined her work identifying the disease agent causing the extinction of a rare North American conifer, Torreya taxifolia.

Current publications

LL Mount, JA Smith, RA Blanchette. 2008. New host associations and potential overwintering strategies of Melampsora species on poplar and willow in North America. Phytopathology 98: S109.

JA Smith, L Mount, AE Mayfield III, CA Bates, WA Lamborn, SW Fraedrich. 2009. First report of Laurel Wilt Disease caused by Raffaelea lauricola on camphor in Florida and Georgia. Plant Disease. 93: 2: 198.