The following faculty members are available
to act as major professors for graduate students:
| Mark L. Farman |
Phytopathogenic fungi; fungal genetics; the fungal genome: structure and evolution; molecular evolution of host specificity; molecular genetics of oomycetes. farman@uky.edu |
| Said A. Ghabrial |
Fungal viruses: molecular biology of the viruses that infect plant pathogenic fungi; molecular basis of the virus-induced disease and hypovirulence of the fungus, Helminthosporium victoriae, the causal agent of victoria blight of oats; Plant viruses: satellite RNAs associated with cucumoviruses and their mediation of disease attenuation in virus-infected plants; plant genetic engineering for biological protection from viral diseases. saghab00@uky.edu |
| Michael Goodin |
Virology: cell biology and biochemistry of plant negative-strand RNA viruses with emphasis on interactions, nuclear import and export of viral proteins. Genomics: changes in host gene expression in response to viral infection. Plant biotechnology: development of transient expression vectors for plants based upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens and viruses. mgoodin@uky.edu |
| Aardra Kachroo |
Host defense signaling; Dissecting defense-signaling pathways in Arabidopsis
and soybean plants using mutant analysis and virus-induced gene silencing to
examine gene functions involved in resistance signaling to viral, bacterial
and fungal pathogens; examining the interconnection between normal metabolic
pathways and defense signaling in host; deciphering the various regulatory
roles of fatty acids and glycerol in plants. apkach2@uky.edu |
| Pradeep Kachroo |
Host-Pathogen Interaction: Molecular basis of signaling mechanisms underlying a resistance response; Salicylic Acid and Jasmonic acid signaling in plants; Cross talk between various defense signaling pathways; Fatty acid signaling and its role in defense response.
pk62@uky.edu |
| Peter D. Nagy |
Virology; molecular biology and biochemistry of plant viruses. Mechanism of virus replication; Mechanism of recombination; Virus evolution; RNA-protein interaction. pdnagy2@uky.edu |
| Christopher
L. Schardl | Symbiotic fungi, particularly grass endophytes; molecular biology of plant-fungus interactions; fungal genetics and metabolism;pharmaceuticals and neurotoxins produced by fungi; biological plant protection; evolution of mutualism and parasitism; molecular systematics of fungi.
schardl@uky.edu |
| Lisa J. Vaillancourt |
Director of Graduate Studies:
Fungal genetics; molecular regulation of fungal development and of fungus-plant disease interactions; anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot in corn; biological control of corn diseases; development of infection structures in the corn anthracnose fungus, Colletotrichum graminicola; genetic regulation of sexual reproduction in fungi.
vaillan@uky.edu |
