Directory
Leadership
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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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Matthew Bertone
Director – Plant Disease and Insect Clinic / Extension Associate
Expertise in arthropod identification/diagnostics and biodiversity
C

Ignazio Carbone
Professor and Director of CIFR and the PSMCC
Evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics and genomics

Bill Cline
Researcher & Extension Specialist, Plant Pathology
Extension Horticulturist, Blueberry
65% extension, 30% research, and 5% service

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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Eric Davis
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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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

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

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

Frank Louws
Department Head and Professor, 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
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

Dominic Reisig
Professor & Extension Specialist
Tidewater Research Station
Crop responsibilities: corn, cotton, peanut, grain sorghum, soybean, and wheat

Michael Reiskind
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs – Entomology
Public Health Entomology
Vector Ecology/Reiskind Laboratory

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

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

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
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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