Faculty
Christina Fox Call
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Plant pathology, AI, Ag Education and pedagogy & epistemology
Lori Francis
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Early childhood exposure to adversity and cardiometabolic risk/resilience; community engaged research; plant-human health interactions; human stress response and resilience; living classrooms and nature learning; forest therapy and impacts on children who experience(d) adversity
David Geiser
Professor of Mycology
Genomics of fungi, applied to the evolution of plant and animal disease, toxin production, and beneficial roles. Fungal phylogenetics and population genetics, especially in Fusarium, and sequence-based identification tools. Identification of unique pathogen-specific genomic regions in pathogens, and diagnostic markers.
Heather Grab
Assistant Professor of Applied Systems Ecology
The ecological drivers of insect populations on working lands and application of those principles to reduce conflicts between wild and human systems.
Ying Gu
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mechanism of cellulose biosynthesis in higher plants. Genetic modification of plant cell wall to scale-up biofuel production.
Mark Guiltinan
Director, Plant Institute; J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany; Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
Plant functional genomics, metabolomics and biotechnology. Identification of key genes for disease resistance and important traits in the tree crop Theoboma cacao, the Chocolate tree.
Noel Habashy
Associate Teaching Professor of Global Agriculture
Critical examination of global development and global learning through interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches
Jill Hamilton
Director of the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics; Associate Professor
Genomic basis of climate adaptation, conservation, and restoration genetics.
Kevin Hockett
Huck Early Career Chair; Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology
Biological Control, Biology and Ecology of Plant-Microbe and Plant-Environment Interactions, Microbial Ecology and Population Biology Faculty
David Huff
Professor of Turfgrass Breeding and Genetics
Population genetics. Plant evolution and ecology. Crop improvement. Physiological tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress.
David Hughes
Huck Chair in Global Food Security; Professor of Entomology and of Biology
Parasite manipulation of host behavior
Magni Hussain
Assistant Research Professor in Electronics, Instrumentation, and Control Systems
AI, automation, robotics, electronics, and advanced controls in agriculture including specialty crop production, controlled-environment agriculture (CEA), and agricultural health and safety.
