Laura is the AMPA (Americas and Pacific region) Pathology Application Team Lead at Limagrain Vegetable Seeds, serving HM.Clause, Hazera, and Vilmorin-Mikado business units. She previously was Pathology Testing and Operations Lead at the Bayer Crop Science Vegetable R&D site in Woodland, CA, USA. She manages a team that supports the breeding pipeline in delivering critical disease resistance traits to vegetable germplasm in a variety of crops. Her team provides diagnostic and phytosanitation support in addition to their primary function of disease resistance phenotyping. She received her B.S. degree in Evolution and Ecology from the University of California, Davis and her M.S. in Plant Pathology, also from UC Davis.