Lauren Carneal

Lauren Carneal

  • Ph.D. Student
  • Advised by Dr. Timothy McNellis

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

Education

  • B.S., Genetics, Clemson University

Publications

Abbot, B., Field, S., Carneal, L., White, R.A., Buchan, A., West C., Lee, L., and Carter, M.E. (2025). Comparative Genomics Reveals Multipartite Genomes Undergoing Loss in the Fungal Endosymbiotic Genus Mycetohabitans. Genome Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf231.

Kangben, F., Kumar, S., Xing, A., Wen, L., Li, W., Parris, S., Lawson, J., Li, Z., Carneal, L., Cobb, M., Nichols, R. L., Wells, C., Agudelo, P., Khanal, C., and Saski, C. A. (2025). CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Knockout of MLO3Confers Enhanced Resistance to Reniform Nematode in Upland Cotton. Plants. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14223491.

Kumar, S., El-Hawaz, R., Li, Z., Lawson, J., Parris, S., Kangben, F., Carneal, L., Hopkins, J., Naylor-Adelberg, J., Adelberg, J., Reighard, G., Gasic, K., Carr, C., III, and Saski, C. A. (2025). Optimized Auxin and Cytokinin Interactions Enable Direct Somatic Embryogenesis in the Peach Rootstock ‘Guardian®’ from Immature Cotyledons. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26178698.

Zhang, N., Gan, J., Carneal, L., González-Tobón, J., Filiatrault, M., and Martin, G. B. (2024). Helper NLRs Nrc2 and Nrc3 act codependently with Prf/Pto and activate MAPK signaling to induce immunity in tomato. The Plant Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16502.