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Faculty Working in this Area
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
thb15@psu.edu
814-865-9653
Areas of Expertise
- High-throughput sequencing
- Crop-associated microbiomes
- Impacts of disturbance on plant-microbe relationships
- Environmental microbiology
- Professor of Mushrooms
dmb8@psu.edu
814-863-7059
Areas of Expertise
- Mushroom cultivation
- Composting
- Mushroom nutrition and physiology
- IPM and Disease Management for Mushroom cultivation
- Mushroom extension services for the North American mushroom industry
- Department Head, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
- Professor of Plant Pathology and Systematic Bacteriology
- Director, Penn State Microbiome Center
ctb14@psu.edu
814-865-7448
Areas of Expertise
- Phytobacteriology
- Translational Taxonomy
- Systematic Bacteriology
- Biological Control
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Professor Emeritus
- Department Head 2005-2008
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Pathology
- Fungal Genetics
- Plant Breeding
- Professor of Mycology
- Director, Fusarium Research Center
dmg17@psu.edu
814-865-9773
Areas of Expertise
- Fusarium and Aspergillus
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal systematics and evolution
- Fungal plant and animal pathogens
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Associate Professor Vegetable Pathology
bkgugino@psu.edu
814-865-7328
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated vegetable disease management
- Plant pathogen diagnosis
- Disease monitoring and forecasting
- Sustainable crop production
- Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
- Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor
klh450@psu.edu
814-865-4472
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteriology
- Phyllosphere Microbiology
- Protein-mediated Bacterial Antagonism
- Molecular Biology
- Associate Professor
- Coordinator and Adviser of the Minor in Plant Pathology
jimenez-gasco@psu.edu
814-863-2355
Areas of Expertise
- Population biology
- Ecology of plant-associated microorganisms
- Fusarium and Verticillium wilts
- Professor
sxk55@psu.edu
814-863-3846
Areas of Expertise
- Biocontrol
- Fungal genetics and genomics
- Microbial chemical ecology
- Molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens
- Associate Professor
kuldau@psu.edu
814-863-7232
Areas of Expertise
- Mycotoxins
- Endophytes
- Fusarium
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal secondary metabolites
- Agricultural biosecurity
- Associate Professor
twm4@psu.edu
814-863-7646
Areas of Expertise
- Fire blight resistance in apple trees
- Biologically-based approaches to fire blight disease control
- Development of citrus greening-resistant citrus varieties
- Molecular genetics of Erwinia amylovora pathogenicity
- Development of tomatoes resistant to bacterial canker disease
- Understanding rootstock-scion interactions in grafted apple trees
- Assistant Research Professor
- Mushroom Science and Technology Minor Adviser
- Manager, Mushroom Research Center
- Director, Mushroom Spawn Lab
jap281@psu.edu
814-865-1008
Areas of Expertise
- Compost Microbiology
- Mushroom Cultivation
- Composting
- Integrated Pest Management
- Assistant Research Professor, Tree Fruit Pathology
kap22@psu.edu
717-677-6116
Areas of Expertise
- Apple and pear diseases
- Peach, cherry, other stone fruit diseases
- Integrated tree fruit disease management
- Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, and Biology
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institute of Life Sciences
mjr25@psu.edu
814-865-2292
Areas of Expertise
- Adaptation to extreme environments with microbes
- Assistant Professor, Plant Virology
czr2@psu.edu
814-867-5372
Areas of Expertise
- plant virology
- microbe plant interaction
- vectors of plant viruses and of other plant pathogenic microbes
- plant disease prediction and management models
- Professor
wxu2@psu.edu
814-777-4498
Areas of Expertise
- Epidemiology and management of turfgrass diseases
- Population biology of turfgrass pathogens
- Host defense response in turfgrass pathosystem
- Chemical control of turfgrass diseases