Megan Romberg

Megan has been a National Taxonomist for Mycology for USDA-APHIS National Identification Services since 2012 and provides final identifications of fungi on products arriving at US ports, and from throughout the US. From 2008 to 2011, she was a scientist at the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand where she identified fungi and bacteria associated with imports and general surveillance from throughout the country. Prior to her time in New Zealand, Megan was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the USDA Economic Research Service and worked with economists studying phytosanitary barriers to trade. Megan earned her PhD from the University of California, Davis with research focused on diseases of potato and tomato.