Department of Botany & Plant Sciences

Contact Info:
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist, Subtropical Horticulture
CE - Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (559) 646-6561
E-mail: marylu.arpaia@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/marya

Mechanisms that enable crops to be resilient to floods and other climate change stresses,Mechanisms of gene activity control from chromatin to the translated mRNA, Technologies that enalble analysis of gene regulation in specific populatoins of cells

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Geneticist
Tel: (951) 827-3738
E-mail: julia.bailey@ucr.edu

 https://profiles.ucr.edu/julia.bailey

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist, Horticulture
CE - Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5630
E-mail:  james.baird@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jbaird

Light and temperature signaling in plants

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Cell Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5635
E-mail: meng.chen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mengc

Small regulatory RNAs, RNA modifications, and epigenetics in plants

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Plant Cell & Molecular Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3988
E-mail: xuemei.chen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/xuemeic

Agricultural Plant Genomics and Breeding, Resource development: high-density genotyping, genome sequences, markers, germplasm Cowpea, (Vigna unguiculata): biotic & abioitic stress, seed quality, domestication traits Dehydrin proteins and multigene family.

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division and Professor and Geneticist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3318
E-mail: timothy.close@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/timclose

Plant Biology, Chemical Biology, Molecular Genetics, Biotechnology

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-6990
E-mail: sean.cutler@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/cutler

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Molecular Biochemist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-6370
E-mail: katayoon.dehesh@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/kdehesh

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, Horticulture
CE - Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2280
E-mail: ashraf.elkereamy@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ashrafe

Evolutionary Genetics, Population Genetics, Biotechnology Risk Assessment, Gene flow, Hybridization, Invasive species evolution

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4194
E-mail: norman.ellstrand@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ellstrand

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7740
E-mail: thomas.eulgem@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/teulgem

Desert ecology, Coastal ecology, Conservation biology, Ethnobotany

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor of Ecology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4368
E-mail: exequiel.ezcurra@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/exequiel

Contact Info:

Title: Research Plant Physiologist, Ph.D.
US Salinity Laboratory, USDA-ARS

Adjunct Professor-Botany and Plant Sciences  
Tel: (951)-369-4830
E-mail:jorge.ferreira@usda.gov

Conservation biogeography, global change biology, species distribution modeling

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division and Distinguished Professor and Biogeographer
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7020
E-mail:  janet.franklin@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jfrankl

Plant Nanobiotechnology, Plant Physiology, Nanosensors, Nanoparticle-plant Interactions

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor and Plant Physiologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3583
E-mail: juanpablo.giraldo@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/juanpg

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Cheminformatics

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Bioinformatics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 732-7072
E-mail: thomas.girke@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/tgirke

Developmental biology, stem cell dynamics and mathematical modeling

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3482
E-mail: venu.gonehal@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/venug

https://venureddylab.bitbucket.io/

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology

Department of Nematology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4230
E-mail: simong@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Director of Botanic Gardens, Emerita
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7095
E-mail: jodie.holt@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jsh123

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division and Botanist, Emeritus 
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4783
E-mail: anthony.huang@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ahuang

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Landscape Ecologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7113
E-mail: darrel.jenerette@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/gdjen

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3987
E-mail: arthur.jia@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/zhenyuj

Faculty website:  Jia Lab

Gene regulation and signal transduction in plant immunity

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Plant Molecular Geneticist Biology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7995
E-mail: hailing.jin@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/hailingj

Contact Info:
Title:  Assistant Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2271
E-mail:  robert.jinkerson@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rjinkers

Divisional Dean Agricultural & Natural Resources

Contact Info:
Title:  Professor of Nematology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3913
E-mail:  isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ikalosh

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3212
E-mail: daniel.koenig@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dkoenig

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor and Plant Ecologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4001
E-mail: loralee.larios@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/loralee

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Ecologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4776
E-mail:  bai-lian.li@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/bailian

Biotechnology and Biomolecular Engineering

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-1480
E-mail: yanran.li@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/yanranl

https://liyanranlab.weebly.com/ open_in_new

Plant diversity, evolution, and development

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor and Plant Evolution & Develop Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2113
E-mail:  amy.litt@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/amylitt

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division and Plant Physiologist, Emerita
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4663
E-mail:  carol.lovatt@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/lovatt

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3946
E-mail:  adam.lukaszewski@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ajoel

Chemical ecology of pathogen-host-vector interactions

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Entomology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5444
E-mail: kerry.mauck@ucr.edu

https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/kerry-mauck

Contact Info:
Title: Director of Agricultural Operations
CE-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4274
E-mail:  peggy.mauk@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/peggym

Contact Info:
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops
CE-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-0839
E-mail:  milt.mcgiffen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/milt

Molecular genetics, especially genetic engineering and biotechnology. Science Policy.

Contact Info:
Title:Cooperative Extension Specialist, Plant Biotech and Genetics
CE-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7532
E-mail: alan.mchughen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/alanmc

https://mchughenlab.ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist, Horticulture
CE-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-1523
E-mail: donald.merhaut@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/donm

Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor and Plant-Insect Ecologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3927
E-mail: paul.nabity@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/pauln

Plant circadian clock and temperature responses

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4425
E-mail: dawn.nagel@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dawnn

https://dawnnagel.wixsite.com/nagelucr

Mechanisms and evolution of plant hormone signaling pathways, strigolactones, karrikins

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4397
E-mail: david.nelson@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/davidn

https://nelsonlab.ucr.edu/

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Plant Physiologist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3777
E-mail:  eugene.nothnagel@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/nothnagl

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-6370
E-mail:  natasha.raikhel@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/nraikhel

Invasive species, food webs and trophic dynamics, community ecology

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor of Entomology 
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5735
E-mail:   erin.wilson@ucr.edu

Division plane orientation and the cytoskeleton in shape and patterning in plants

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4415
E-mail:  carolyn.rasmussen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/crasmu

Vascular diseases of tree crops

Contact Info:
Title: Professor Coop Extension Specialist, Subtropical Crops
CE-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-6988
E-mail: philippe.rolshausen@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/philrols

https://ucanr.edu/sites/Rolshausen/

Genetics, genomics and breeding of citrus and asparagus; evolution of cultivated citrus

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division  and Professor and Geneticist, Emeritus 
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4137
E-mail: mikeal.roose@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/roose

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Vice Chair of Biology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-6357
E-mail:  joel.sachs@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/joels

Contact Info:

Title: Research Geneticist
US Salinity Laboratory, USDA-ARS

Adjunct Professor-Botany and Plant Sciences  
Tel: (951)-369-4832
E-mail: devinder.sandhu@usda.gov

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Physiological Ecologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4951
E-mail:  louis.santiago@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/santiago

Genetics, genomics, and breeding in citrus

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4441
E-mail:  danelle.seymour@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dseymour

Contact Info:
Title: Department Chair, Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5785
E-mail:  patricia.springer@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/pspringer

Evolutionary Genomics, Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, Population Genomics, Host-Microbe interactions, Mycology and Fungal Biology

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Microbiology & Plant Pathology
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2363
E-mail:  jason.stajich@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jasonst

http://lab.stajich.org/home/

Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor and Plant Cell & Developmental Biologist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2134
E-mail:  jaimie.vannorman@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jaimiev

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Genetics & Geneticist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3706
E-mail:  giles.waines@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4687
E-mail: linda.walling@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/lwalling

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7866
E-mail: susan.wessler@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/swessler

Chemical/Environ. Engineering

Contact Info:
Title: Professor 
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-2471
E-mail:   iwheeldon@engr.ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5898
E-mail: shizhong.xu@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/shxu