Plant Pathology
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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, 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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Rick 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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Jim Kerns
Professor and Extension Specialist of Turfgrass Pathology
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
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
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

Dorith Rotenberg
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs – Plant Pathology
Ecology and molecular biology of plant virus-insect vector interactions
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Anna Whitfield
Professor
Plant virus-vector interactions
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster