Ally Miners

Ally Miners is a PhD student in the Charles Lab focusing on plant-microbe interactions. She began at UWaterloo in her undergrad in 2018 and transferred from her MSc to PhD in 2025. Ally is passionate about working in a multidisciplinary field and hopes to commercialize her research in the future. Her work focuses on optimization of microbial inoculants to improve plant stress tolerance. By applying plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) she hopes to mitigate drought stress in field soybean as well as disease pressure in hydroponic tomato.