Achour Amiri
Location: Wenatchee
Tel: 509-663-8181 ext 268 (office) / 228 (Lab)
E-mail: a.amiri@wsu.edu
Tree Fruit Pathology, postharvest diseases, epidemiology and disease management.
Sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum), management of diseases of ornamental bulb crops and Christmas trees, and factors that affect the postharvest quality of Christmas trees.
Lindsey du Toit
Location: Mount Vernon
Tel.: (360) 848-6140
Cell: (360) 391-2407
E-mail: dutoit@wsu.edu
Etiology, epidemiology, and management of diseases of small-seeded vegetable seed crops in the Pacific Northwest.
Maren Friesen
Location: Pullman
Office: Plant Sciences
Lab: Plant Sciences 383
Tel.: (509)335-5805
Email: m.friesen@wsu.edu
Biological nitrogen-fixation, evolutionary ecology, population genomics, mathematical modeling.
Cynthia Gleason
Location: Pullman
Office: Plant Sciences Building Rm 263
Lab: Plant Sciences Building Rm 261
Office phone: 509-335-3742
Lab phone: 509-335-0350
Email: cynthia.gleason@wsu.edu
Molecular basis of plant-nematode interactions.
Gary G. Grove
Location: Prosser
Office: Hamilton Hall – 136
Lab: Hamilton Hall – 131/132
Tel.: (509)786-9283
E-mail: grove@wsu.edu
Epidemiology and forecasting of fungal diseases of cherries, peaches/nectarines, and grapes: epidemiology of powdery mildews; and electronic information transfer.
Scott Harper
Location: Prosser Clean Plant Center Northwest
Office: Hamilton Hall 201
Tel.: (509) 786-9230
Email: scott.harper@wsu.edu
Viruses of perennial crops, virus-virus and virus-host interactions, viral diagnostics and disease management
Chakradhar Mattupalli
Location: Mount Vernon
Office:
Tel.: (360) 848-6138
E-mail: c.mattupalli@wsu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Chakradhar Mattupalli leads the Berry-Potato Pathology (BPP) program at the Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center in Mount Vernon, Washington. The focus of the BPP program is to develop novel approaches for management of diseases of blueberries and potatoes, as well as other small fruits produced in Northwestern Washington and the Pacific Northwest.
Timothy D. Murray
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 311A/345
Lab: Vogel Plant Bioscience 230
Tel.: (509)335-7515
E-mail: tim.murray@wsu.edu
Small grain diseases (foot and root rots of wheat), ecology and epidemiology of soilborne pathogens, genetics of disease resistance, and chemical control.
Hanu Pappu
Location: Pullman
Office: 353 Johnson Hall
Lab: 123 Vogel Plant Biosciences Building
Tel.: (509) 335-3752
Fax: (509) 335-9581
E-mail: hrp@wsu.edu
Plant Virology. Viruses and viral diseases of horticultural crops: Biology and molecular biology, genomics and proteomics of DNA and RNA viruses. Molecular ecology and epidemiology, molecular methods for virus detection and diagnosis, gene structure-function relationships, use of RNA and DNA viruses as tools for studying virus-host and virus-vector interactions, and conventional and biotechnological approaches for disease management.
Naidu Rayapati
Location: Prosser
Office: Hamilton Hall 108
Lab: Hamilton Hall 109
Tel.: (509) 786-9215
Fax: (509) 786-9370
E-mail: naidu@wsu.edu
Kiwamu Tanaka
Location: Pullman
Office: Plant Sciences Rm 253
Lab: Plant Sciences Rm 251
Office: (509) 335-6418
Lab: (509) 335-5813
E-mail: kiwamu.tanaka@wsu.edu
Molecular plant-microbe interactions and plant innate immunity.
David Linnard Wheeler
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 329
Lab: Vogel 107
Tel: (509) 335-3733
Email: david.wheeler@wsu.edu
plant health & disease
Adjunct Faculty
Weidong Chen
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 301A
Lab: Vogel Plant BioScience 227
Tel.: (509)335-9178
E-mail: w-chen@wsu.edu
Fungal diseases of grain legumes, ecology and epidemiology of grain legume diseases, genetics of host-pathogen interactions.
Xianming Chen
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 361
Lab: Vogel Plant Bioscience 233
Tel.: (509)335-8086
E-mail: xianming@wsu.edu
Rusts of cereal crops, epidemiology and control of rusts, disease resistance, and host-pathogen interactions.
Christina Hagerty
Location: OSU Columbia Basin Research Center,
Adams, Oregon
Tel:
541-278-4186
Email:
Christina.Hagerty@oregonstate.edu
I am focused on serving the producers and stakeholders of high quality PNW wheat. My goal is to conduct relevant, practical, and applied research on the biology and control of plant-pathogenic fungi, viruses, and nematodes that limit yields of dryland wheat production in the Inland Pacific Northwest. My program is currently funded by the Oregon Wheat Commission, the Washington Grain Commission, USDA-ARS, The Oregon Ag. Experiment Station, and industry partners.
Ned Klopfenstein
Location: Moscow
Tel.: (208)883-2310
Molecular diagnostics of forest pathogens and microbes, genetic structure of host and pathogen populations across forest landscapes and environments.
The molecular basis of disease resistance mechanisms and inducible defenses, such as systemic acquired resistance, in potato.
Viticulture extension and grape integrated pest management (foliar, fruit, trunk, and root pests and diseases)
Patricia Okubara
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 333
Lab: Vogel Plant BioScience 325
Tel.: (509)335-7824
E-mail: pokubara@wsu.edu
Host genes governing plant-microbe interactions; molecular basis of disease resistance and biological control of cereal root pathogens.
Timothy Paulitz
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 363
Lab: 324 Vogel PBS
Tel.: (509)335-7077
E-mail: paulitz@wsu.edu
Soilborne pathogens of cereals; mycology.
Deven See
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 209
Lab: Johnson Hall 291B
Tel.: (509)335-3630
E-mail: deven_see@wsu.edu
Wheat genetics; molecular biology; genomics
Linda Thomashow
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 365
Tel.: (509)335-0930
Email: thomashow@wsu.edu
Wheat root diseases, molecular biology and microbiology.
David M. Weller
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 367
Tel.: (509)335-6210
Email: wellerd@wsu.edu
Biological control, influence of bacteria on take-all of wheat, cereal diseases, bacteriology.
George Vandemark
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 303W
Tel.: (509)335-7728
Email: gvandemark@wsu.edu
Legume germplasm and basic and applied investigations of problems associated with legume improvement.