Department of Plant Pathology Faculty Directory


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Faculty
CHRIST, Barbara J. E-mail: ebf@psu.edu	Professor and Head of Department. Breeding potatoes with disease resistance, examination of pathogen variability and epidemiology of potato diseases. Office: 212B Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7448 Lab: 404 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7061
AYERS, John E. E-mail: jea@psu.edu	Professor; Director, Pesticide Education Program. Disease resistance in plants; diseases of corn. Plant Pathology Extension; diseases of field corn. Office: 113 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7776
BACKMAN, Paul A. E-mail: pbackman@psu.edu	Professor. Biological Control of Plant Diseases, Agrosecurity, Sustainable Agriculture. Office: 221 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-6687 Lab: 16 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-6733
BEYER, David M. E-mail: dmb8@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Mushroom technology, production, and farm management. Office: 102 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7059 Lab: 104 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-4967
DAVIS, Donald D. E-mail: ddd2@psu.edu	Professor. Health of hardwood forests of the Northeast; hardwood fungal pathogens; etiology of hardwood diseases. Office: 323 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-1689 Lab: 401 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-4878
GEISER, David M. E-mail: dgeiser@psu.edu	Associate Professor and Director, Fusarium Research Center. Molecular evolutionary genetics of pathogenic and toxigenic fungi. Office: 121 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-9773 Labs:118 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-0145 120 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7343
GILDOW, Frederick E. E-mail: feg2@psu.edu	Professor. Virus-vector biology; ultrastructural and immunocytochemical electron microscopy. Office: 319 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-3206 Labs: 05 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7344 410 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-4211
HALBRENDT, John M. E-mail: jmh23@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Research/Extension. Plant parasitic nematodes and nematode-transmitted virus diseases of fruit. Development of ecologically sound and sustainable nematode management practices. Biology and ecology of plant parasitic nematodes. Office & Lab: Biglerville Fruit Lab Phone: (717) 677-6116, #3
ISARD, Scott, A. E-mail: sai10@psu.edu	Professor of Aerobiology. Long- and short-distance movement of plant pathogens, insects, and other biota. Office: 205 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-6290 Lab: 206 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-2081
JIMENEZ GASCO, Maria del Mar E-mail: mxj22@psu.edu	Assistant Professor. Population biology of plant pathogens; Evolution of pathogenicity and virulence; Population genetics and epidemiology of soilborne diseases; Molecular identification of phytopathogenic agents. Office: 309 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-2355 Lab: 403B Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-2495
KANG, Seogchan E-mail: sxk55@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Plant-fungal pathogen interactions; Fungal genomics and informatics; Plant pathogen databases. Office: 311 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-3846 Lab: 312 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-2074
KULDAU, Gretchen A. E-mail: kuldau@psu.edu	Assistant Professor. Mycotoxicology; role of mycotoxins in fungal biology and in fungus-plant interactions; fungal endophytes; genetics and molecular biology. Office: 321 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7232 Lab: 417 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-6986
MCNELLIS, Timothy W. E-mail: mcnellis@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Genetics; molecular biology and physiology of plant interactions with phytopathogenic bacteria; signal transduction events involved in plant disease resistance; genetic control of plant hypersensitive cell death defense response. Office: 318 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7646 Lab: 307 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-8379
MOORMAN, Gary W. E-mail: g1m@psu.edu	Professor. Influence of greenhouse cultural practices on floricultural crop diseases; detection and monitoring resistance to fungicides in Pythium and Botrytis; development of strategies for managing fungicide-resistance populations in the greenhouse environment. Office: 111A Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7401 Lab: 310 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-3562
NGUGI, Henry E-mail: hkn3@psu.edu	Assistant Professor. Biology, ecology and integrated management of flower-infecting pathogens; integrated management of tree fruit diseases; plant disease epidemiology. Office & Lab: Biglerville Fruit Lab Phone: (717) 677-6116, #2
PELL, Eva J. E-mail: ejp@psu.edu	Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School; John and Nancy Steimer Professor of Agricultural Sciences. Air pollution effects on vegetation; emphasis on mechanistic studies at the biochemical, molecular, physiological, and whole plant levels.
ROMAINE, C. Peter E-mail: cpr2@psu.edu	Professor--Research/Extension/Education; John B. Swayne Chair in Spawn Science. Transgenic breeding of mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus ) for crop improvement and biopharmaceutical production; mushroom pathologies; PCR-based disease diagnostics; innovations for mushroom cultivation. Office: 317 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7132 Lab: 303 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-2065
ROYSE, Daniel J. E-mail: djr4@psu.edu	Professor. Production efficiency of cultivated mushrooms; mushroom quality; integrated crop management. Office: 316 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7322 Lab: 305 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 867-0543
SINN, Judith P. E-mail: jps6@psu.edu	Senior Research Assistant in Plant Pathology. Office: 320 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7399 Lab: 307 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-8379
STEVENSON, Richard E. E-mail: res4@psu.edu	Senior Research Assistant in Plant Pathology. 109 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7435
STEWART, Elwin L. E-mail: els4@psu.edu	Professor. Systematics and molecular evolution of fungal plant pathogens. Office: 308 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7798 Lab: 306 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-0565
TRAVIS, James W. E-mail: jwt2@psu.edu	Professor, Plant Pathology Extension. Scientist-in-Charge, Fruit Research & Extension Center, Biglerville, PA. Diseases of tree fruits, small fruits, and grapes. Biglerville Fruit Lab Phone: (717) 677-6116, #4 206A Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-4798
UDDIN, Wakar E-mail: wxu2@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Epidemiology and management of gray leaf spot (blast) of perennial ryegrass turf; biology of Magnaporthe oryzae; management of anthracnose basal rot; fungicidal control of turfgrass diseases. Office: 101 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-4498 Labs: 106 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-7350 107 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-8327 Valentine Turfgrass Center Phone: (814) 863-3440
WENNER, Nancy G. E-mail: ngw1@psu.edu	Senior Research Assistant in Plant Pathology. Office: 314 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-0717 Labs: 417 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 865-6986 306 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-0565 404 Buckhout Lab Phone: (814) 863-7061
YANG, Yinong E-mail: yuy3@psu.edu	Associate Professor. Signal transduction of disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance; functional genomics and proteomics of cereal crops. Office: 405C Life Science Phone: (814) 867-0324 Lab: 419 Life Science Phone: (814) 867-0300 Phone: (814) 865-8379
Adjunct & Courtesy Faculty [top]
BERNER, Dana	(Ph.D., Louisiana State University). Adjunct Professor. Biological control of invasive weeds using plant pathogens. (USDA-ARS Foreign Disease Weed Research Lab, Beltsville, MD)
DECOTEAU, Dennis	Professor of Horticulture.
FREDERICK, Reid, D.	(Ph.D., U. California, Berkeley). Adjunct Associate Professor of Plant Pathology. Genetics, molecular characterization, and detection of emerging exotic plant pathogens. (USDA-Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, Fort Detrick, MD)
GRAY, Stewart.	(Ph.D., North Carolina State University). Adjunct Professor. Epidemiology of aphid-transmitted viruses; molecular studies of vector recognition systems. (USDA, ARS/Cornell University)
HAYNES, Kathleen G.	(Ph.D., North Carolina State University). Adjunct Professor. Quantitative genetics; plant breeding. (USDA, ARS Vegetable Laboratory, Beltsville, MD)
KIM, Seong-Hwan	(Ph.D., University of Maryland). Adjunct Professor of Plant Pathology. Plant disease diagnostics; agricultural biosecurity. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, PA)
SCHNEIDER, William L.	(Ph.D., Michigan State University). Adjunct Professor. (USDA-ARS, Foreign Disease and Weed Research Laboratory, Beltsville, MD)
Emeritus Faculty [top]
BLOOM, James R.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: jrb5@psu.edu
BOYLE, John S.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: jsb7@psu.edu
COLE, Herbert, Jr.	Professor of Agricultural Sciences. E-mail: smg1@psu.edu
HICKEY, Kenneth D.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: kdh4@psu.edu
HOCK, Winand K.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: wkh1@psu.edu
KNEEBONE, Leon R.	Professor Emeritus of Botany and Plant Pathology.
LUKEZIC, Felix L.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: fll1@psu.edu
PENNYPACKER, Stanley P.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: spp@psu.edu
SCHEIN, Richard D.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: rds2@psu.edu
SCHISLER, Lee C.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology.
SKELLY, John M.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: jms34@psu.edu
TAMMEN, James	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. E-mail: jft5@psu.edu
TOUSSOUN, T. A.	Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology.

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