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Michael Lawton

Associate Professor

Dr. Lawton has 30 years of experience working on plant:pathogen interactions, plant molecular biology and the application of plant biotechnology, including transgenic and CRISPR methods to enhance biotic and abiotic


Rong Di

Associate Research Professor

  Plant Pathologist/Virologist, Plant Molecular Biologist and Plant Biotechnologist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Dr. Di has 30 years of experience in genetically engineering plants for disease resistance and agronomic


Li-Jun Ma

Professor

Dr. Ma is the PI of the UMass Amherst Ma lab has directed many fungal genome projects and has unparalleled experience in handling genomics data and deep understanding of fungal


German Sandoya

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sandoya’s UF Faculty Page   RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS Sandoya G. V., E. Rosenthal, I. Simko, L. Rodrigues Porto, W. Wadlington, C. Bull, A. Carroll. 2022. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) germplasm


Yigal Cohen

Professor Emeritus

Interest in the reduction of pesticide usage in agriculture, management of plant diseases by genetic resistance and cultural and management means, agro-solar dual use of agricultural lands, breeding horticultural crops


James E. Simon

Distinguished Professor

Simon serves as the Director of the Rutgers Center for Agricultural Food Ecosystems (RUCAFE) whose mission is to bring a uniquely diverse and holistic approach to researching food systems. Simon