New Hire Announcement
Working with controlled environment agriculture
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- We are pleased to announce our new colleague Laura Cammarisano in the Plant Sciences Department at UC Davis as Assistant Professor of Protected Horticulture
Laura Cammarisano
Assistant Professor of Protected Horticulture, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
[email protected]
530 400 2917
Office: Room No. 103, Asmundson building, 255 California Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Dr. Laura Cammarisano is an Assistant Professor of Protected Horticulture in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on controlled environment and protected horticulture, with particular emphasis on plant responses to environmental conditions, abiotic stress, horticultural lighting, crop productivity and quality, and resource-use efficiency.
The Cammarisano Lab develops strategies to optimize the production of vegetables, transplants, and other horticultural crops in protected environments, including greenhouses and indoor vertical farms. Her research integrates plant physiology, agronomy, and biochemistry to understand how environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, nutrients, and airflow affect plant growth, quality, and stress responses. The lab also evaluates non-invasive sensing and monitoring approaches to support improved crop and environmental management.
Before joining UC Davis in 2024, Dr. Cammarisano was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Germany, where her research focused on manipulating and monitoring plant morphology, physiology, and phytochemistry in response to environmental conditions in greenhouse and indoor production systems.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Calabria in Italy and a Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, where her doctoral research focused on optimizing artificial lighting for indoor crop production.
Social Media:
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-cammarisano-phd-44915912b/
ResearchGate- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura-Cammarisano
ORCID Link- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9933-1218