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Terry Bates

Senior Research Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Director

Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Lab

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Viticulture
  • Digital agriculture
  • Concord (juice grape) production
Susan Brown

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Plant breeding (apples)
  • Marker-assisted breeding
Lance Cadle-Davidson

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Sustainable management of grapevine fungal and oomycete diseases
  • Host-pathogen co-evolution and disease resistance
  • Enhanced breeding using genomic tools
Kerik Cox

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Orchard fungal ecology
  • Fungicide resistance
  • Pesticide stewardship, fruit pathology
Laura Dougherty

Research Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

Contact

  • led88 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Apple Genomics
Gennaro Fazio

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

Contact

  • gennaro.fazio [at] ars.usda.gov

Interest

  • Plant breeding
  • Apple rootstocks
Marc Fuchs

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Virus diseases of fruit and vegetable crops
  • Grape viruses
  • Plant virus-insect vector interactions
Laurie George

PSA Midwest Regional Extension Associate

Food Science

Cornell AgriTech

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Katie Gold

Assistant Professor and Susan Eckert Lynch Faculty Fellow

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Plant disease detection and epidemiology
  • Grape pathology
  • Remote sensing and imaging spectroscopy
Phillip Griffiths

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Vegetable breeding (brassicas and beans)
  • International agriculture
  • Molecular breeding and diagnostics
Benjamin Gutierrez

Adjunct Assistant Professor (USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit)

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

Contact

  • blg82 [at] cornell.edu
Frank Hay

Senior Extension Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Fusarium basal rot of garlic
  • Root knot and lesion nematode of potato
  • Stemphylium leaf blight of onion
Yu Jiang

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Agricultural robotics and artificial intelligence
  • Image processing
  • High throughput plant phenotyping
Awais Khan

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

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Interest

  • Mechanisms of host disease resistance in apples; particularly to fire blight and apple scab
  • Quantitative genetics, genomics, genetic diversity, and pre-breeding
  • Rapid disease detection, pathogen identification, and high-throughput phenotyping tools
Gregory Loeb

Professor

Department of Entomology

Cornell AgriTech

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