Directory
Leadership

Rick Davis
DEPP Head & William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Plant-parasitic nematodes and host-parasite interactions
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Patricia Alder
Director and Training Coordinator
Structural Pest Management Training & Research Facility

Charles Apperson
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Public Health Entomology and Vector Biology
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Rick Brandenburg
Wm. Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, Departmental Extension Leader
Commercial Turf and Peanuts
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Ignazio Carbone
Professor and Director of CIFR and the PSMCC
Evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics and genomics

Bill Cline
Researcher & Extension Specialist
Management of diseases of blueberries and muscadine grapes

Christina Cowger
USDA Research Plant Pathologist
Biology, epidemiology, and population genetics of small grain pathogens

Marc Cubeta
Professor and Associate Director, Center for Integrated Fungal Research
Ecology and population genetics of beneficial and plant pathogenic soil fungi
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Rick Davis
DEPP Head & William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Plant-parasitic nematodes and host-parasite interactions

Ralph Dean
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Host-pathogen interactions in Magnaporthe oryzae
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Ruediger Hillmann
Associate Professor Emeritus
Urban, Household and Wood Destroying Pests, 4H Entomology
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George Kennedy
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture
Ecology and Management of Insect Pests Affecting Agricultural Crops

Jim Kerns
Professor and Extension Specialist
Etiology, epidemiology, and management of warm- and cool-season grass diseases
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Steven Lommel
Associate Dean for Research CALS; Director NCARS
Molecular mechanisms of plant viral pathogenesis

Frank Louws
Department Head and Professor, Horticultural Science
Diseases of strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, and organic crops
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David Marshall
Professor and Research Leader USDA/ARS
Breeding and genetics of small grain crops for disease resistance
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Lina Quesada
Professor and University Faculty Scholar, Vegetable Pathology
Management, diagnostics, population genetics, and genomics of vegetable pathogens
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David Rasmussen
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics Research Center
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster

Jean Ristaino
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Director of Emerging Plant Disease
William Neal Reynolds Distingushed Professor
Director Emerging Plant DIsease and Global Food Security Cluster

David Ritchie
Professor and Extension Specialist
Bacterial and fungal pathogens of fruit and vegetable crops

Michael Roe
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Insect Toxicology and Physiological Genomics
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Coby Schal
Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor
Urban Entomology, Insect Behavior, Chemical Ecology, Insect Physiology

Jules Silverman
Charles G. Wright Distinguished Professor
Urban Entomology, Insect Behavior, Nutritional Ecology

Clyde Sorenson
Alumni Assoc. Distinguished Undergrad. Professor
Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching, Field Crops Entomology Office:
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James Walgenbach
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Applied Insect Ecology and Pest Management

Anna Whitfield
Professor
Plant virus-vector interactions
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster

Brian Wiegmann
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Entomology
Systematics, Phylogenomics, Evolutionary Biology