Faculty
[By Research Areas]
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
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DISCIPLINE |
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Department Chair & Professor of Genetics |
DNA Marker Analysis; Genomics; Linkage Mapping; Citrus; Asparagus |
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Professor of Plant Ecology |
Effects of invasive species on native vegetation, weed competition and succession, restoration ecology and mycorrhizal fungi, effects of urbanization and agriculture on native ecosystems |
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| ALLEN, Michael | Professor of Plant Pathology; Director of Center for Conservation Biology (Cooperating Faculty Member) | Regulation of community and ecosystem processes by soil organisms with special emphasis on mycorrhizal fungi. Current research concentrates on global change dynamics and structure of undisturbed areas, and how that information can be utilized in the conservation and restoration of native ecosystems. |
| ARPAIA, Mary Lu | CE Subtropical Horticulturist | Cooperative Extension Specialist - Evaluation of preharvest and postharvest factors on subtropical crop productivity and fruit quality, including rootstocks, cultivar, irrigation, pesticide, and nutrition management strategies |
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Professor of Genetics & Geneticist |
Gene Regulation; Translational Control; Abiotic Stress Signaling/Response; Low Oxygen Sensing; Flooding/Submergence |
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| BAIRD, James | CE Assistant Turfgrass Specialist | Turfgrass variety improvement and selection, plant stress physiology related to temperature and water, and natural resource concerns, including water allocation and management, energy conservation, atmospheric quality or other issues at the intersection of Turfgrass landscapes with native and production agricultural areas. |
| CHEN, Xuemei | 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 |
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Professor of Genetics & Geneticist |
Crop Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics; High Density Genetic Linkage Maps and Marker Assisted Selection; Barley, Citrus, Cowpea, Rice, Wheat; Abiotic and Biotic Stress Regulated Genes and Proteins; Application of Transcriptome Analyses to Biomarker Development for Citrus |
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| COGGINS, Charles W. | Professor of Plant Physiology (Emeritus) | Citrus varieties |
| CUTLER, Sean | Associate Professor of Plant Cell Biology | Chemical Genomics; Analysis and Exploitation of Natural Variation Using Small Molecules |
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Professor of Botany & Plant Morphologist (Emerita) |
Mechanisms of plant development, using morphological mutants to study processes at the level of the cell, tissue, organ, and whole plant |
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Professor of Genetics |
Applied plant population genetics with emphasis on gene flow and its role in evolution of invasiveness, extinction by hybridization, and adventitious presence of transgenes. |
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Associate Professor of Plant Cell Biology |
Plant Immune Biology; Defense Signaling; Gene Regulation; Transcriptomics, Functional Genomics |
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| EZCURRA, Exequiel | Professor of Ecology/Director of UC Mexus | Conservation science, ecology and biogeography of coastal deserts, land-ocean interactions and their impact on marine and terrestrial environments |
| GIBEAULT, Victor A. | CE Specialist (Emeritus) | Cooperative Extension Environmental Horticulture Specialist |
| GIRKE, Thomas A.F. | Associate Professor of Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics; Cheminformatics; Drug informatics; Databases; Expression Data Analysis, Protein Function Predictions; Data Mining; Network Analysis and Systems Biology |
| GÓMEZ-POMPA, Arturo | Distinquished Professor of Botany (Emeritus) | Ethnoecology and floristics: rain forest conservation and management |
| GONEHAL, Venugopala Reddy | Assistant Professor of Plant Cell Biology | Gene Networks; Live Imaging; stem Cells; Development |
| GRANTZ, David A. | CE Agronomist/Plant Physiologist | Cooperative Extension Specialist - Environmental Physiology/Air Quality Effects. |
| HALL, Anthony E. | Professor of Plant Physiology (Emeritus) | Plant physiology and genetics; understanding of plant adaptation to stressful environments; develop improved cultivars and management methods. |
| HEATH, Robert L. | Professor of Plant Physiology & Biophysics (Emeritus) | Plant physiology and biophysics; air pollution damage; photosynthetic mechanisms |
| HOLT, Jodie S. | Professor of Plant Physiology | Physiological and population ecology of invasive exotic weeds in wildlands and agricultural weeds in croplands, ecological approches for weed management. |
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Professor of Plant Physiology |
Metabolism and cell and molecular biology of seed oils |
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| JENERETTE, G. Darrel | Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology | Ecological scaling, coupled biogeochemical cycles, terrestrial aquatic linkages, ecosystem responses to altered precipitation regimes, societal-biophysical interactions |
| JIN, Hailing | Associate Professor and Assistant Molecular Geneticist (Cooperating Faculty Member) | Gene regulation and signal transduction of plant immunity |
| KALOSHIAN, Isgouhi | Professor of Nematology (Cooperating Faculty Member) | Plant-pest interactions; Resistance gene signaling and gene regulation; Pest effectors and transciptome analysis. |
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Professor of Plant Ecology |
Quantitative Plant Ecology; Ecological Complexity and Modeling; Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology; Systems Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Computational Biology; Ecological Informatics |
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| LIU, Renyi | Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genomics | Computational, phylogenetic and molecular tools to analyze plant and bacterial genomes |
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Professor of Botany (Emerita) |
Pollination; Pollen Tube Guidance; Pistil ECMs; Adhesion |
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Professor of Plant Physiology |
Regulation of flowering, fruit set, and fruit development of citrus, avocado, other subtropical tree crops, and pistachio. Role of hormones and nutrition in regulating these processes. Abiotic stress physiology. | |
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Professor of Genetics |
Cytogenetics of crop plants, Meiotic chromosome pairing |
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| MAUK, Peggy | CE Specialist for Subtropical Crops/Ag Ops Director | CE Specialist for Subtropical Crops |
| McGIFFEN, Milton E. | CE Vegetable Crop Specialist/Plant Physiologist | Weed management and sustainable agriculture. Areas of interest include weed management, cover crops, and models of cropping systems and population dynamics. |
| McHUGHEN, Alan | CE Plant Biotechnologist | Cooperative Extension Specialist - Biotechnology for sustainable agriculture. Policy development and public education. |
| MERHAUT, Donald | CE Associate Specialist/Associate Horticulturist | Cooperative Extension Specialist-Nursery Floriculturist/Horticulturist |
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Professor of Plant Physiology |
Arabinogalactan-protein Structure and Function; Plant Cell Wall Structure and Function; Industrial Applications of Arabinogalactan-proteins in Gums; Biofuels from Cell Wall Polymers; Teaching |
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Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology |
Vacuolar Trafficking through the Secretory System; Biosynthesis of Cell Wall Polysaccharides in Plants |
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| ROLSHAUSEN, Philippe | CE Assistant Specialist & Assistant Horticulturist | Cooperative Extension Specialist Subtropical Horticulturist |
| SACHS, Joel L. | Assistant Professor of Biology (Cooperating Faculty Member) | Investigate the forces that shape bacterial cooperation with hosts as well as the origins and evolution of harmful strains. Current focus is on rhizobial bacteria that live in soils throughout the world and nodulate the roots of many legume hosts. |
| SANTIAGO, Louis S. | Associate Professor of Physiological Ecosystem Ecology | Environmental Physiology, Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Physiology, Stable Isotopes, and Tropical Biology |
| SPRINGER, Patricia S. | Associate Professor of Genetics | Plant Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology; Gene Regulation; Leaf Development |
| STAJICH, Jason | Assistant Professor & Assistant Bioinformaticist (Cooperating Faculty Member) | We are interested in the set of genes that are required to synthesize, maintain, and remodel the cell wall as part of growth, response to stress, and developmental programs. |
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Professor of Genetics |
Cytogenetics, evolution, and plant breeding: wheat and legumes |
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Professor of Genetics and Agricultural Sciences |
Plant/pest Interactions; Defense Mechanisms; Aminopeptidases and Transferases That Modify the N-terminus of Proteins; Plant gene expression during development and in response to biotic stress |
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Distingished Professor of Genetics |
Transposable elements in plants with a focus on the characterization of active transposable elements and a determination of how they contribute to genome evolution and adaptation. |
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Professor of Genetics & Geneticist |
Quantitative Genetics; Plant Breeding; Bioinformatics; Statistical Genomics |
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Professor of Cell Biology |
Molecular Cell Biology; G Protein-mediated Signaling Networks and Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Polarity and Cell Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis |
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