Microbiology and Plant Pathology: Faculty

Faculty

Faculty
	Jim Adaskaveg Email: Jim.Adaskaveg@ucr.edu Office Location: 242 Fawcett Lab Phone: (951) 827-7577	Professor of Plant Pathology - Plant Pathologist, Mycologist, and Epidemiologist Biology, epidemiology, and ecology of plant pathogenic fungi
	Michael F. Allen Email: Michael.Allen@ucr.edu	Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division Biology and ecology of microbial-plant-soil interactions
	Emma L. Aronson Email: Emma.Aronson@ucr.edu Office Location: 3411 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-4201	Assistant Professor Soil microbial ecology and biogeochemistry
	Katherine Borkovich Email: Katherine.Borkovich@ucr.edu Office Location: 1234B Genomics Phone: (951) 827-2753	Chair; Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Cell Biologist/Biochemist Fungal cell and molecular biology; functional genomics of fungi
	James Borneman Email: James.Borneman@ucr.edu Office Location: 3407 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-3584	Professor & Vice Chair Microbial Ecology
	Michael D. Coffey Email: Michael.Coffey@ucr.edu Office Location: 2435 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-4764	Professor of Plant Pathology & Plant Pathologist Phytophthora systematics, genetics, and pathology
	Patrick Degnan Email: Patrick.Degnan@ucr.edu Office Location: 2317A Webber Hall Phone: (951) 827-4115	Assistant Professor of Microbiology Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Microbial Ecology, Molecular Evolution, Regulation of Gene Expression, Human Gut Microbiomes
	Shou-Wei Ding Email: Shou-wei.Ding@ucr.edu Office Location: 3202A Genomics Phone: (951) 827-2341	Professor and Plant Pathologist Molecular Virology
	Emma Gachomo Email: Emma.Gachomo@ucr.edu Office Location: 2491 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-2093	Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Microbiology and Assistant Plant Pathologist
	Sydney I. Glassman Email: sydney.glassman@ucr.edu Office Location: Boyce Hall 2469 Phone: (951)-827-6727	Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
	Rong Hai Email: Rong.Hai@ucr.edu Office Location: 4488 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-3910	Assistant Professor of Virology
	Ansel Hsiao Email: Ansel.Hsiao@ucr.edu Office Location: 3263 Webber Hall Phone: (951) 827-2525	Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Assistant Microbiologist
	Hailing Jin Email: Hailing.Jin@ucr.edu Office Location: 3234B Genomics Phone: (951) 827-7995	Professor & Molecular Geneticist Gene regulation and signal transduction in plant immunity
	Howard Judelson Email: Howard.Judelson@ucr.edu Office Location: 1234A Genomics Phone: (951) 827-4199	Professor of Plant Pathology Molecular biology and genomics of oomycetes, with an emphasis on the growth and pathogenesis of Phytophthora
	Wenbo Ma Email: Wenbo.Ma@ucr.edu Office Location: 1234C Genomics Phone: (951) 827-4349	Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant Pathologist Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions
	Patricia Manosalva Email: Patricia.Manosalva@ucr.edu Office Location: 3485 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-3773	Assistant Professor & Director of the Avocado Rootstock Breeding Program- Plant Pathologist, Molecular Biologist and Biochemist Molecular and genetic basis of plant immunity against oomycete pathogens with an emphasis on Phytophthora cinnamomi. Avocado Molecular-Assisted Breeding
	Juliet Morrison Email: Juliet.Morrison@ucr.edu Office Location: Boyce Hall 4490 Phone: (951) 827-5368	Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Plant Pathology
	James Ng Email: James.Ng@ucr.edu Office Location: 3233 Webber Hall Phone: (951) 827-4239	Associate Professor and Associate Plant Pathologist Plant Virology, virus-insect vector interactions
	Alexander Putman Email: Alexander.Putman@ucr.edu Office Location: 238 Fawcett Lab Phone: (951) 827-4212	Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension and Assistant Plant Pathologist
	A.L.N Rao Email: A.Rao@ucr.edu Office Location: 3259 Webber Hall Phone: (951) 827-3810	Professor of Plant Pathology & Microbiology Molecular biology of virus-host interactions: Replication and genome packaging in RNA viruses infecting plants and insects.
	Caroline Roper Email: Caroline.Roper@ucr.edu Office Location: 3441 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-3510	Associate Professor of Plant Pathology & Plant Pathologist Molecular basis of the host/pathogen interactions of vector borne plant pathogenic bacteria and the role of the phytobiome in plant health and disease tolerance.
	Jason E. Stajich Email: Jason.Stajich@ucr.edu Office Location: 1207K Genomics Phone: (951) 827-2363	Professor & Bioinformaticist Evolutionary and population genomics of fungi
	Georgios Vidalakis Email: Georgios.Vidalakis@ucr.edu Office Location: 2491 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-3763	Director of the Citrus Clonal Protection Program, Associate Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Plant Pathology & Associate Plant Pathologist & Lecturer Citrus viral diseases
Cooperating Faculty Members
	Xuemei Chen Email: Xuemei.chen@ucr.edu Office Location: 4234A Genomics Phone: (951) 827-3988	Professor of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Cell fate specification and stem cell regulation in flower development; molecular mechanisms of microRNA metabolism and RNA silencing
	Isgouhi Kaloshian Email: Isgouhi.Kaloshian@ucr.edu Office Location: 2107A Genomics Phone: (951) 827-3913	Professor and Chair, Department of Nematology
	Philip Roberts Email: Philip.Roberts@ucr.edu Office Location: 2251 Spieth Phone: (951) 827-7332	Professor, Department of Nematology
	Joel Sachs Email: Joel.Sachs@ucr.edu Office Location: 5406 Boyce Hall Phone: (951) 827-6357	Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology