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.
Gita Bangera
Location: Bellevue
Lori M. Carris
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 329
Lab: Johnson Hall 328
Tel.: (509)335-3733
E-mail: carris@mail.wsu.edu
Mycology; biology and systematics of smut fungi, esp. Tilletiales.
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.
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.
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.
Frank Dugan
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 59
Tel.: (509)335-1783
E-mail: frank.dugan@ars.usda.gov
Ascomycetes and associated anamorphs; fungi endophytic in higher plants.
Maren Friesen
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 319/321
Lab: Vogel Plant Bioscience 318
Tel.: (509)335-5805
Email: m.friesen@wsu.edu
Biological nitrogen-fixation, evolutionary ecology, population genomics, mathematical modeling.
Cynthia Gleason
Location: Pullman
Office: 335 Johnson Hall
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
Scot H. Hulbert
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 307
Lab: Johnson Hall 308
Tel.: (509) 335-3722
E-mail: scot_hulbert@wsu.edu
Genetics of disease resistance in cereals and virulence in cereal pathogens; disease management in conservation-oriented cropping systems.
Diseases of specialty vegetable crops, and their control.
Dennis A. Johnson
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 317A
Lab: Vogel Plant BioScience 127
Tel.: (509)335-3753
E-mail: dajohn@wsu.edu
Epidemiology and disease management of potato diseases, mint diseases, and extension plant pathology.
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.
Soilborne diseases of fruit trees, microbial ecology, molecular biology.
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.
The molecular basis of disease resistance mechanisms and inducible defenses, such as systemic acquired resistance, in potato.
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.
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.
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.
Tobin L. Peever
Location: Pullman, Mount Vernon
Office: Johnson Hall 357
Lab: Vogel Plant Biosciences 219
Tel.: (509) 335-3754
E-mail: tpeever@wsu.edu
Small fruit pathology and epidemiology, fungicide resistance, population biology of plant pathogenic fungi.
Integrated pest management strategies to control potato, pea, alfalfa, bean, chickpea and lentil diseases; foliar and root rotting pathogens on these crops.
Naidu Rayapati
Location: Prosser
Office: Hamilton Hall 108
Lab: Hamilton Hall 109
Tel.: (509)786-9215
E-mail: naidu@wsu.edu
Molecular biology of plant viruses, genomics of virus-vector-host interactions, viral diagnostics, epidemiology and management of viral diseases.
Deven See
Location: Pullman
Lab: Johnson Hall 291B
Phone: (509) 335-3630
Fax: (509) 335-2553
Email: deven_see@wsu.edu
Molecular genetics in wheat, discovery and mapping of genes.
Kiwamu Tanaka
Location: Pullman
Office: Johnson Hall 355
Lab: Johnson Hall 354/358/370
Office: (509) 335-6418
Lab: (509) 335-5813
E-mail: kiwamu.tanaka@wsu.edu
Molecular plant-microbe interactions and plant innate immunity.
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.