Our Personnel
Prospective students electronically apply for admission to the
Graduate School on the World Wide Web at http://admissions.utk.edu/graduate/.
Note: the West Tennessee Education and Research Center is located in Jackson, and the Plant Pest Diagnostic Center is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Faculty
Carl Jones, Professor and Head, Knoxville.
Dispersal, biological control and ecosystem dynamics of arthropod vectors
of diseases of medical and veterinary importance.
Ernest Bernard, Professor, Knoxville.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory
(ATBI); taxonomy and ecology of Collembola, Protura, and nematodes;
biological control of root-knot and cyst nematodes.
Steve Bost, Professor, Plant Pest Diagnostic Center.
Diseases of commercial fruits, vegetables, and dark tobacco.
E. (Gene) Burgess, Professor and Extension Coordinator, Knoxville.
Pesticide Safety Education Program, tobacco insect control, and livestock
pest control.
Craig Canaday, Associate Professor, West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
Vegetable diseases and their control; improved control of yield-threatening
pathogens of Tennessee vegetable crops using new technologies, biological
agents, and cultural practices.
Warren Copes, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Pat Donald, Adjunct Associate Professor, West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
Soybean cyst nematode cultural management, biotic and abiotic effects on
nematode reproduction, soybean cyst nematode population variability.
Reid Gerhardt, Professor (Liaison), Knoxville.
Medical and veterinary entomology, biology and ecology of mosquitoes,
epidemiology of La Crosse and West Nile virus, and control of ticks,
biology, ecology and population management strategies for muscoid flies
affecting cattle, epidemiology of emerging arthropod-borne diseases in
Tennessee.
Jerome Grant, Professor, Knoxville.
Pest management and applied ecology of insects, biological control and
biodiversity, classical biological control of selected arthropod pests
and weeds through induction of natural enemies, bionomics and management
of insect pests of wheat, development of sustainable area-wide weed
management practices for improved land utilization.
Kimberly Gwinn, Associate Professor, Knoxville.
Use of natural products as pesticide alternatives; secondary metabolism
of fungi; physiology of plant diseases.
C. H. Hadden (Emeritus)
Reza Hajimorad, Assistant Professor, Knoxville.
Frank Hale, Professor, Soil, Plant and Pest Center.
Development and implementation of state-wide Extension educational programs
for an IPM approach to commercial fruit, vegetable (including greenhouse),
ornamental (including landscape and greenhouse), turf (including landscape
and sports turf), and dark tobacco insect and mite control. Coordination
of insect and mite identification and control recommendations at the
Soil, Plant and Pest Center.
J. W. Hilty (Emeritus)
L. F. Johnson (Emeritus)
Juan Jurat-Fuentes, Assistant Professor, Knoxville.
Research interests include the use of proteomic and functional genomic approaches to characterize microbe-insect host interactions, physiological and molecular characterization of insect resistance to pathogens, and development of in vitro and in vivo models to investigate insect pathogenesis.
Uriel Kitron, Adjunct Professor.
Paris Lambdin, Professor, Knoxville.
Research emphasis on the biosystematics, biology, and phylogenetics of
the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), insect biodiversity, and
biological control of ornamental and forest insect pests.
Kurt Lamour, Associate Professor, Knoxville.
Research interests include functional genomics of plant pathogens in the
genus Phytophthora, population biology and epidemiology, and
the development of high-throughput tools for genomic discovery.
G. L. Lentz (Emeritus)
Adriean Mayor, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Hayes McDonald, Adjunct Associate Professor.
Danny Mead, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Kevin Moulton, Assistant Professor, Knoxville.
Arthropod Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity.
Melvin Newman, Professor, West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
Diseases of field crops (soybeans, cotton, corn, sorghum, wheat, and
small grains).
Rebecca Nichols, Adjunct Assistant Professor, NPS.
Aquatic insect ecology and long-term monitoring; the All-Taxa Biodiversity
Inventory (ATBI) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Bonnie Ownley, Associate Professor, Knoxville.
Biology, biocontrol and epidemiology of soilborne plant pathogens. Ecology
and population dynamics of soil microorganisms.
Russ Patrick, Professor, West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
Insect Pest Management (IPM) in corn, forages, sorghum, small grains
and stored grains, and forage insects.
C. D. Pless (Emeritus)
Tim Rhinehart, Adjunct Professor.
John Skinner, Professor
and Apiculture Specialist, Knoxville.
Apiculture-bee, disease control, and parasitic mite control, pollination
ecology, bee biology, pollination of squash, pumpkin and sunflower.
C. J. Southards (Emeritus)
Scott Stewart, Associate Professor, West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
Insect pest management in cotton and other field crops grown in Tennessee.
R. (Bob) Trigiano, Professor, Knoxville.
Cell and tissue culture of ornamental plants/plant pathology. Primary
interests: somatic embryogenesis, enzyme physiology, DNA fingerprinting
of fungi and woody ornamentals, gene discovery.
Karen Vail, Professor, Knoxville.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of pests found in and around structures.
Research emphasis on management of ants and termites, and IPM of child-serving
facilities.
Alan Windham, Professor, Soil, Plant and Pest Center.
Disease control in woody ornamentals, turf, flowers and forages, and
fescue endophyte.
Mark Windham, Professor, Knoxville.
Disease of woody ornamentals and nursery crops, establishing resistance
to dogwood anthracnose, biotechnology of ornamental plants, histology
of anthracnose infections and breeding disease resistance in flowering
dogwoods, Chinese dogwood, and hybrids.
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