People: Faculty & Staff
Staff & Administration
Whom to Contact
Dr. Svetlana Folimonova
Director
Research interests are Plant Pathogens-Host Interactions, Disease Management, Citrus Greening.
Dr. Gilles Basset
Graduate Coordinator
Research interests include Systems Biology, Metabolic Biochemistry, and Biological Networks.
Eliana Kampf
PMCB Coordinator
Responsible for overall program coordination, including recruitment, admissions, student services and administration.
PMCB Faculty
Gul Shad Ali
Mid-FL Res. & Educ. Center
Plant-Microbe Interaction, Effectors, Pathology, Nanobiotechnology
Fredy Altpeter
Agronomy
Genome Editing, Homologous Recombination, Crop Biotechnology and Breeding
W. Brad Barbazuk
Biology
Bioinformatics, Comparative and Functional Genomics, RNA Splicing
Gilles Basset
Horticultural Sciences
Systems Biology, Metabolic Biochemistry, Biological Networks
Elias Bassil
Tropical Res. & Educ. Center
Stress Physiology, Ion Homeostasis, Endomembrane Trafficking
Christine D. Chase
Horticultural Sciences
Organelle Genetics, Pollen Development, Programmed Cell Death
David Clark
Environmental Horticulture
Floriculture, Biotechnology, Plant Breeding
Thomas Colquhoun
Environmental Horticulture
Biotechnology, Floriculture, Biochemistry
John Davis
SFRC-Forestry
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Functional Genomics, Disease Resistance, Tree Species
Robert J. Ferl
Horticultural Sciences
14-3-3's, Space Biology, Chromatin Structure
Svetlana Folimonova
Plant Pathology
Plant Pathogens-Host Interactions, Disease Management, and Citrus Greening
Kevin Folta
Horticultural Sciences
Biotechnology, Photoperiod, Strawberry
Dean W. Gabriel
Plant Pathology
Citrus Greening and Canker, Disease Resistance, Microbial Genetics
Fred Gmitter, Jr.
Hort. Sciences-Citrus Res. Ctr.
Breeding and Genetics, Citrus, Genomics
William Gurley
Microbiology & Cell Sciences
Transcriptional Regulation, Heat Shock Response
L. Curt Hannah
Horticultural Sciences
Temperature Stress, Cold Acclimation, Heat Shock, Metabolomics and Physiology
Andrew Hanson
Horticultural Sciences
Metabolic Biochemistry, Metabolic Engineering, Plant-Prokaryote Phylogenomics
Alice Harmon
Biology
Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases, Cysteine Synthesis Pathway, Arabidopsis and Soybean
Bernard Hauser
Biology
Seed Development, Stress Physiology, Arabidopsis, Soybean
Jeffrey B. Jones
Plant Pathology
Microbial Pathogenesis, Virulence, Disease Management
Jeongim Kim
Horticultural Sciences
Plant Secondary Metabolism, Plant Hormones, Senescence
Matias Kirst
SFRC-Forestry
Genomics, Bioenergy, Quantitative Genetics, Forestry
Harry Klee
Horticultural Sciences
Flavor, Fruit Ripening, Genomics, Tomato
Karen Koch
Horticultural Sciences
Sugar Metabolism, Kernel Development, Functional Genomics
Seonghee Lee
Gulf Coast Res. & Educ. Center
Strawberry Genetics, Disease Resistance, Functional Genomics
Tong Geon Lee
Gulf Coast Res. & Educ. Center
Bioinformatics, Genome Biology, Tomato
Tie Liu
Horticultural Sciencesr
Postharvest Genomics, Potato Tuber Dormancy, Stress Biology, Meristem Development
Donald R. McCarty
Horticultural Sciences
Functional Genomics, Seed Development, Transposon Mutagenesis
Stuart McDaniel
Biology
Genetic of Adaptation and Reproductive Isolation
Geoffrey Meru
Tropical Res. & Educ. Center
Cucurbit Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
Lauren McIntyre
Mol. Gen. & Microb.
Genetic Genomics, Complex Phenotypes
Zhonglin Mou
Microbiology & Cell Science
Plant Defense, Salicylic Acid, Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR)
Patricio Munoz
Horticultural Sciences
Blueberry, Breeding and Genomics, and Quantitative Genetics.
David G. Oppenheimer
Biology
Plant Cell Shape, Cytoskeleton, Membrane Trafficking
Anna-Lisa Paul
Horticultural Sciences
Space Biology, Transcriptomics, Chromatin Structure
Bala Rathinasabapathi
Horticultural Sciences
Metabolic Adaptations to Stress, Functional Genomics of Stress Adaptations
Marcio F. R. Resende
Horticultural Sciences
Maize Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Breeding, Quantitative Genetics
Jeffrey Rollins
Plant Pathology
Host-Pathogen Interactions, Developmental Biology, Signal Transduction
A. Mark Settles
Horticultural Sciences
Seed Development, Maize Genetics, Functional Genomics
Doug Soltis
Biology-FL Museum
Angiosperm Phylogeny, Genome Doubling, Phylogeography
Pam Soltis
Biology-FL Museum
Plant Phylogenetics, Polyploidy, Gene Family Evolution
Wen-Yuan Song
Plant Pathology
Kinase, Ubiquitin, Protein-Protein Interaction,
C. Eduardo Vallejos
Horticultural Sciences
Genetics and Genomics, Genetics of Disease Resistance
Wilfred Vermerris
Microbiology & Cell Science
Cell Wall Development, Bioenergy, Genomics
Nian Wang
Microbiology and Cell Science
Citrus, Huanglongbing, Liberibacter, Xanthomonas, Genome editing
Emeritus Faculty
Kenneth Cline
Horticultural Sciences
Chloroplast Biology, Protein Trafficking, Membrane Biogenesis
Charles Guy
Environmental Horticulture
Temperature Stress, Metabolomics and Physiology
Gloria A. Moore
Horticultural Sciences
Genetic Improvement, Genetic Transformation, Citrus
