Plant Pathology
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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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Ralph Dean
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Host-pathogen interactions in Magnaporthe oryzae
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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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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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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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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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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