Directory
Leadership
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Patricia Alder
Director and Training Coordinator
Structural Pest Management Training & Research Facility
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Charles Apperson
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Public Health Entomology and Vector Biology
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Matthew Bertone
Director – Plant Disease and Insect Clinic / Extension Associate
Expertise in arthropod identification/diagnostics and biodiversity
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Terri Billeisen
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Extension Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor
AGI Coordinator
Director of Undergraduate Programs
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Ignazio Carbone
Professor and Director of CIFR and the PSMCC
Evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics and genomics
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Bill Cline
Researcher & Extension Specialist, Plant Pathology
Extension Horticulturist, Blueberry
65% extension, 30% research, and 5% service
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Christina Cowger
USDA Research Plant Pathologist
Biology, epidemiology, and population genetics of small grain pathogens
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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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Eric Davis
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Plant-parasitic nematodes and host-parasite interactions
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Ralph Dean
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Host-pathogen interactions in Magnaporthe oryzae
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Steve Frank
Professor and Associate Department Head, Ecology and IPM in urban landscapes, nurseries, and greenhouses
Ecology and IPM in urban landscapes, nurseries, and greenhouses
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Ruediger Hillmann
Associate Professor Emeritus
Urban, Household and Wood Destroying Pests, 4H Entomology
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Anders Huseth
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, University Faculty Scholar
Field Crops Ecology
Crop responsibilities: corn, cotton, grain sorghum, soybean, sweetpotato, and wheat
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George Kennedy
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture
Ecology and Management of Insect Pests Affecting Agricultural Crops
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Jim Kerns
Professor and Extension Specialist of Turfgrass Pathology, University Faculty Scholar
Departmental Extension Leader
Etiology, epidemiology, and management of warm- and cool-season grass diseases
Turfgrass Pathology Lab
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Steven Lommel
Associate Dean for Research CALS; Director NCARS
Molecular mechanisms of plant viral pathogenesis
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Frank Louws
Department Head, Horticultural Science
Diseases of strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, and organic crops
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Inga Meadows
Extension Plant Pathologist, Vegetables and Herbaceous Ornamentals
Management of diseases of vegetable crops
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Lina Quesada
WNR Distinguished Professor, University Faculty Scholar, and Extension Specialist – Cucurbits and Sweetpotato Pathology
Management, diagnostics, population genetics, and genomics of vegetable pathogens
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David Rasmussen
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics Research Center
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster
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Dominic Reisig
Professor & Extension Specialist
Tidewater Research Station
Crop responsibilities: corn, cotton, peanut, grain sorghum, soybean, and wheat
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Michael Reiskind
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs – Entomology
Public Health Entomology
Vector Ecology/Reiskind Laboratory
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Jean Ristaino
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
William Neal Reynolds Distingushed Professor
Director Emerging Plant DIsease and Global Food Security Cluster
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David Ritchie
Professor and Extension Specialist
Bacterial and fungal pathogens of fruit and vegetable crops
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Michael Roe
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Insect Toxicology and Physiological Genomics
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Dorith Rotenberg
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs – Plant Pathology, University Faculty Scholar
Ecology and molecular biology of plant virus-insect vector interactions
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Coby Schal
Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor
Urban Entomology, Insect Behavior, Chemical Ecology, Insect Physiology
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Jules Silverman
Charles G. Wright Distinguished Professor
Urban Entomology, Insect Behavior, Nutritional Ecology
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Clyde Sorenson
Alumni Assoc. Distinguished Undergrad. Professor
Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching, Field Crops Entomology
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James Walgenbach
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Applied Insect Ecology and Pest Management
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Anna Whitfield
Professor and Director of Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security
Plant virus-vector interactions
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster
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Brian Wiegmann
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Entomology
Systematics, Phylogenomics, Evolutionary Biology