Princeton graduate Kaeli Ficco (right), and their colleagues uncovered a mechanism by which soil bacteria can modulate plant immunity.

Kaeli Ficco, now a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, developed some of the study’s experimental methods as part of her senior thesis. Here, she examines an Arabidopsis seedling engineered to ...

Assistant Professor Jonathan Conway (right) checks on Arabidopsis seedlings with Samuel Eastman and Kaeli Ficco ...