Faculty A to Z
Assistant Professor
Warnell
- Rebecca.Abney@uga.edu
- biogeochemical cycles, post-wildfire erosion, soil C sequestration
Assistant Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology
- jta24@uga.edu
- global change, ecophysiology, natural selection, evolutionary genetics, local adaptation
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources,
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
- daubrey@uga.edu
- Tree ecophysiology, forest biogeochemistry, fire ecology, sustainability of bioenergy production
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
- sudeepbag@uga.edu
- plant virology: detection, disease epidemiology, genomics, small RNA, virus-host interaction, and virus disease management
Assistant Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Pathology
- bbahri@uga.edu
- pathogen population structure, pathogen adaptation to hosts and to climate change, plant-pathogen interactions, resistance gene and virulence factor identification, turfgrass and forage disease management
Professor
Plant Biology; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
- peled@ccrc.uga.edu
- complex carbohydrates synthesis and regulation, biochemistry and molecular biology
Assistant Research Scientist
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- jbarb@iastate.edu
- small grains breeding and genetics
Norman and Doris Giles Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar,
National Academy of Sciences Member
Genetics; Plant Biology; Institute of Bioinformatics
- maize@uga.edu
- cereal comparative genomics, genome structure and evolution
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology; Institute of Bioinformatics
- dbensasson@uga.edu
- fungal domestication, bioinformatics, population genetics, evolution
Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- bertioli@uga.edu
- peanut genetics and improvement using wild species
Assistant Research Scientist
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- akbiswal@uga.edu
- Peanut Molecular Biology, Genetics and Breeding
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
- mtbrewer@uga.edu
- plant-pathogenic fungi, population genomics, mating systems, host specialization
Assistant Research Scientist
Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics
- inbrown@uga.edu
- peanut breeding; plant breeding; cultivar development; high throughput phenotyping
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics
Crop & Soil Sciences; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Institute of Bioinformatics
- Robin.Buell@uga.edu
- plant genome biology, genome-enabled breeding, plant resilience, genome editing, synthetic biology
Distinguished Research Professor; Department Head, Plant Biology
Plant Biology
- jmburke@uga.edu
- plant evolutionary genetics
Professor
Plant Biology
- smchang@uga.edu
- evolution and ecology of plant reproduction and mating systems
Assistant Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- dchavez@uga.edu
- peach breeding, genetics and production
Professor
Molecular Cotton Breeding Laboratory; National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory;
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- pwchee@uga.edu
- molecular breeding of cotton
Assistant Professor – Blueberry Breeder
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics
- ychu@uga.edu
- mycotoxicology, postharvest pathology, fungal genetics
Haines Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
- yyachung@uga.edu
- plant-microbe interactions, competition and coexistence, population and community ecology, global change
Adjunct Faculty
Crop & Soil Sciences; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- jclev@uga.edu
- peanut genetic improvement, polyploid genomics
Assistant Research Scientist
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- jconner@uga.edu
- apospory, angiosperm asexual reproduction
Director, State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Plant Biology
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology
- megan.peterson@colorado.edu
- population dynamics, evolutionary ecology, responses to climate change
Distinguished Research Professor
Plant Biology; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Institute of Bioinformatics
- kdevos@uga.edu
- comparative genomics in cereals
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Institute of Bioinformatics
- cmdundas@uga.edu
- plant & microbial synthetic biology, microbiome engineering, biological carbon sequestration
Associate Professor
Horticulture
- ferrarezi@uga.edu
- irrigation, mineral nutrition, sap analysis, hydroponics, cropping systems
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
- jfount1@uga.edu
- mycotoxicology, postharvest pathology, fungal genetics
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
- danjohnson@uga.edu
- tree ecophysiology, water use, drought
Associate Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
- bkvitko@uga.edu
- mechanisms of plant immune action against bacteria, molecular phytobacteriology
Senior Research Scientist
Plant Pathology; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- sorayab@uga.edu
- peanut, wild arachis, introgression, tetraploidization, disease resistance
Distinguished Research Professor; Director, UGA Plant Center
Plant Biology
- jleebensmack@uga.edu
- genomic, phylogenetic and experimental analyses
Associate Professor
Plant Biology; Microbiology
- zlewis@uga.edu
- fungal genetics, chromatin structure and function, epigenetics, gene regulation
Professor
Georgia Seed Development Professorship in Soybean Breeding and Genetics
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- zli@uga.edu
- soybean breeding, genetics and genomics
Professor
Plant Biology; Microbiology
- Xiaorong.Lin@uga.edu
- fungal genetics, human fungal pathogens, sexual reproduction, dimorphism, pathogenesis, protein trafficking
Associate Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- cmcgre1@uga.edu
- vegetables, breeding, genetics, genomics, marker-assisted selection, QTL
Georgia Seed Development UGAF Professorship in Wheat Breeding and Genetics
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- mmergoum@uga.edu
- small grain breeding, genetics and genomics
Associate Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- cssamm@uga.edu
- bioenergy, forages, breeding, genomics
Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Pathology
- melissamitchum@uga.edu
- molecular plant-nematode interactions, effectors, peptide signaling, host plant resistance, soybean genetics and genomics
Associate Professor, School of Ecology
Plant Biology
- jmohan@uga.edu
- ecosystem ecology, population and community ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, climate change, conservation biology, geographic genetic variation, species range shifts
Georgia Athletics Association Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Plant Biology; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
- dmohnen@uga.edu
- biosynthesis of plant cell wall polysaccharides
Assistant Professor
Horticulture
- amolnankar@uga.edu
- vegetable crop breeding, biotic and abiotic stress adaptation , fruit quality
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology
- nelms@uga.edu
- plant reproduction, genomics and gene regulatory networks, single-cell RNA-sequencing, reprogramming cell fate
Assistant Professor
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- aogden@uga.edu
- traditional and molecular assisted breeding techniques to generate new cultivars of horticultural crops for Controlled Environment Agriculture(CEA) systems
D.W. Brooks Professorship, UGA Distinguished Research Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Horticulture
- pozias@uga.edu
- developmental biology and molecular mechanisms of apomixis, genetic enhancement of peanut and grasses
Distinguished Research Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- wparrott@uga.edu
- gene editing and transgenic breeding of legumes and grasses
Regents Professor; Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory
Genetics; Institute of Bioinformatics; Plant Biology
- paterson@uga.edu
- plant genetics, genomics, evolution, crop improvement, domestication
Associate Professor
Entomology
- jschmid2@uga.edu
- predator-prey interactions in agroecosystems, prey selection and environmental effects
Associate Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology; Institute of Bioinformatics
- schmitz@uga.edu
- epigenetics, epigenomics
Associate Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- tifturf@uga.edu
- turfgrass breeding
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
- shavs@uga.edu
- plant-pathogen interactions, structure and evolution of disease resistance loci
Associate Professor and Ji/Georgia Vegetable Industry Distinguished Professorship in Plant Pathology
Plant Pathology
- mtian@uga.edu
- molecular interactions of plants with oomycete and fungal pathogens, plant genome editing for disease resistance
Winfred N. Haynes Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Plant Biology; Genetics; Institute of Bioinformatics
- cjtsai@warnell.uga.edu
- phenylpropanoid metabolism, stress response, wood formation, gene family evolution, gene-metabolite networks
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
- breeanna@uga.edu
- structure and function of plant carbohydrate active enzymes
Professor
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Biology; Genetics
- vanderkn@uga.edu
- tomato developmental genetics, genomics, molecular biology
Adjunct Faculty
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- justin.vaughn@ars.usda.gov
- gene discovery, population genomics characterization and visualization, simulation of genetic systems
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
- cvillari@uga.edu
- fungal pathogens, resistance mechanisms of trees, chemical ecology, insect-fungi symbioses
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Plant Biology
- ian.wallace@uga.edu
- biosynthesis and regulation of plant cell wall polysaccharides
Associate Professor
Institute of Bioinformatics, Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- jason.wallace@uga.edu
- quantitative genetics and genomics of crops and their microbiomes
Professor
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- dwilde@uga.edu
- molecular genetics of ornamental plants
Assistant Professor, UGA Herbarium Director
Plant Biology
- Tanisha.Williams1@uga.edu
- conservation biology, climate change responses, plant diversity, ethnobotany, genetics/genomics, ecology, phenology, herbaria
Associate Professor
Plant Biology
- ninawurz@uga.edu
- ecosystem biogeochemistry, plant-microbial symbioses, disturbance ecology
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
- Li.Yang1@uga.edu
- molecular genetics of plant immunity and development
Professor
Plant Biology
- yh@uga.edu
- molecular genetics and biochemistry of secondary cell wall biosynthesis
Dirr Professor
Horticulture; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- donglin@uga.edu
- woody ornamental improvement