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 |
| 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 |
| Donald E. Hershman |
Extension Faculty, Princeton Station. Disease management in soybeans and small grains, disease resistance, etiological and epidemiological studies. dhershma@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 Interactions: 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 | Department Chair. 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 |
| Kenneth W. Seebold |
Extension Faculty. Management of plant disease in tobacco, vegetable, and greenhouse systems. kseeb2@uky.edu |
| Lisa J. Vaillancourt |
Director of Graduate Studies. Fungal genetics and genomics; molecular regulation of fungal development and fungus-plant disease interactions; anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot in corn; development of infection structures in the corn anthracnose fungus, Colletotrichum graminicola; genetic regulation of sexual reproduction in fungi. vaillan@uky.edu |
| Paul Vincelli |
Extension Faculty. Management of diseases of turf, forages, and corn. Disease epidemiology. Molecular diagnostics. pvincell@uky.edu |
| Nicole Ward |
Extension Faculty. Management of diseases of fruit crops, forest trees, landscape plants, and nursery and greenhouse crops. Nicole.ward@uky.edu |
