BPSC Faculty

Current BPS Faculty

For a list of our current Emeriti faculty, click here.

Mary Lu Arpaia

phone (559) 646-6561

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

Julia Bailey-Serres

phone (951) 827-3738
email julia.bailey@ucr.edu

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

James Baird

phone (951) 827-5630

email james.baird@ucr.edu

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

Christopher Catano

phone (951) 827-1723

email christopher.catano@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor
Botany & Plant Sciences
Tel:
E-mail: christopher.catano@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/christopher.catano

Meng Chen

phone (951) 827-5635

email meng.chen@ucr.edu

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

Sean Cutler

phone (951) 827-6990

email sean.cutler@ucr.edu

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

Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh

phone (951) 827-6370

email katayoon.dehesh@ucr.edu

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

Ashraf El-kereamy

phone (951) 827-2280

email ashraf.elkereamy@ucr.edu

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

Thomas Eulgem

phone (951) 827-7740

email thomas.eulgem@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Department Chair, 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

Exequiel Ezcurra

phone (951) 827-4368

email exequiel.ezcurra@ucr.edu

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

Jorge Ferreira

phone (951) 369-4830

email jorge.ferreira@usda.gov

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

Juan Pablo Giraldo

phone (951) 827-3583

email juanpablo.giraldo@ucr.edu

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

Thomas Girke

phone (951) 732-7072

email thomas.girke@ucr.edu

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

Venugopala Reddy Gonehal

phone (951) 827-3482

email venu.gonehal@ucr.edu

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/

Simon Cornelis "Niels" Groen

phone (951) 827-4230

email simong@ucr.edu

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

Bao-Lam Huynh

phone (951) 827-7330

email : baolam.huynh@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Nematology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-7330
E-mail: baolam.huynh@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/baolam.huynh

Darrel Jenerette

phone (951) 827-7113

email darrel.jenerette@ucr.edu

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

Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia

phone (951) 827-3987

email arthur.jia@ucr.edu

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

Hailing Jin

phone (951) 827-7995

email hailing.jin@ucr.edu

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

Robert Jinkerson

phone (951) 827-2271

email robert.jinkerson@ucr.edu

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

Adam Jozwiak

phone (951) 827-4401

email adamj@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Molecular Biochemistry
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4401
E-mail: adamj@ucr.edu

Isgouhi Kaloshian

phone (951) 827-3913

email isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu

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

Sunil Kenchanmane Raju

phone (951)827-8672

email sunilkuk@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Plant Resilience
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 867-8672
E-mail: sunilkumar.kenchanmaneraju@ucr.edu

https://profiles.ucr.edu/sunilkumar.kenchanmaneraju

Daniel Koenig

phone (951) 827-3212

email daniel.koenig@ucr.edu

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

Loralee Larios

phone (951) 827-4001

email loralee.larios@ucr.edu

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

Bai-lian Larry Li

phone (951) 827-4776

email bai-lian.li@ucr.edu

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

Amy Litt

phone (951) 827-2113

email amy.litt@ucr.edu

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

Adam J. Lukaszewski

phone (951) 827-3946

email adam.lukaszewski@ucr.edu

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

Kerry Mauck

phone (951) 827-5444

email kerry.mauck@ucr.edu

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

Peggy Mauk

phone (951) 827-4274

email peggy.mauk@ucr.edu

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

Milt McGiffen

phone (951) 827-0839

email milt.mcgiffen@ucr.edu

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

Donald Merhaut

phone (951) 827-1523

email donald.merhaut@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

Dawn Nagel

phone (951) 827-4425

email dawn.nagel@ucr.edu

Plant circadian clock and temperature responses

Contact Info:
Title: Associate 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

David Nelson

phone (951) 827-4397

email david.nelson@ucr.edu

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

Contact Info:
Title: 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/

Olakunle Olawole

phone (951) 827-8324

email olakunle.olawole@ucr.edu

Microbiology and Plant Pathology

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Molecular Bacterial Plant Interactions
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951)827-8324
E-mail: olakunle.olawole@ucr.edu

Erin Wilson-Rankin

phone (951) 827-5735

email erin.wilson@ucr.edu

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

Carolyn Rasmussen

phone (951) 827-4415

email carolyn.rasmussen@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

Philippe Rolshausen

phone (951) 827-6988

email philippe.rolshausen@ucr.edu

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/

Joel Lawrence Sachs

phone (951) 827-6357

email joel.sachs@ucr.edu

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

Devinder Sandhu

phone (951) 369-4832

email devinder.sandhu@usda.gov

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

Louis Santiago

phone (951) 827-4951

email louis.santiago@ucr.edu

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

Danelle Seymour

phone (951) 827-4441

email danelle.seymour@ucr.edu

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

Patricia Springer

phone (951) 827-5785

email patricia.springer@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: 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

Jason E Stajich

phone (951) 827-2363

email jason.stajich@ucr.edu

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

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Microbiology and 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/

Linda Walling

phone (951) 827-4687

email linda.walling@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

Ian Wheeldon

phone (951) 827-2471

email iwheeldon@engr.ucr.edu

Chemical/Environ. Engineering

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

Tingting Xiang

phone (951) 827-2412

email txiang@ucr.edu

Bioengineering

Contact Info:
Title: Assistant Professor
CFM-Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951)827-2412
E-mail: txiang@ucr.edu

Shizhong Xu

phone (951) 827-5898

email shizhong.xu@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished 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

Emeriti Faculty

Edith Allen

phone (951) 217-4645

email edith.allen@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist and Professor, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 217-4645
E-mail: edith.allen@ucr.edu

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

Timothy Close

phone (951) 827-3318

email timothy.close@ucr.edu

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

Darleen DeMason

phone (951) 827-3580

email darleen.demason@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Botany & Plant Morphologist, Emerita
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-3580
E-mail: darleen.demason@ucr.edu

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

Janet Franklin

email janet.franklin@ucr.edu

jfranklin2@sdsu.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: janet.franklin@ucr.edu

jfranklin2@sdsu.edu

https://jfrankl39.wixsite.com/vale

Victor Gibeault

phone (951) 827-4401

email victor.gibeault@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: CE Environmental Horticulture Specialist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: victor.gibeault@ucr.edu

Arturo Gomez-Pompa

phone (951) 827-4748

email arturo.gomez-pompa@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: University Prof. & Distinguished Prof. of Botany, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: arturo.gomez-pompa@ucr.edu

David A Grantz

phone (559) 646-6599

email david.grantz@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Emeritus,Plant Physiologist & CE Air Quality Specialist
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: david.grantz@ucr.edu

Anthony E Hall

phone (530) 283-3052

email anthony.hall@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Plant Physiology & Crop Ecologist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: anthony.hall@ucr.edu

Robert L Heath

phone (951) 827-5925

email robert.heath@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of Plant Physiology & Biophysics, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: robert.heath@ucr.edu

Jodie Holt

phone (951) 827-7095

email jodie.holt@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Director of Botanic Gardens and Professor of Plant Physiology & Biophysics, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: jodie.holt@ucr.edu

bgdirector@ucr.edu

https://gardens.UCR.edu

Anthony Huang

phone (951) 827-4783

email anthony.huang@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division and Botanist
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: anthony.huang@ucr.edu

Carol J Lovatt

phone (951) 827-4663

email carol.lovatt@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Prof of the Graduate Division & Plant Physiologist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail carol.lovatt@ucr.edu

Eugene A Nothnagel

phone (951) 827-3777

email eugene.nothnagel@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Prof of the Graduate Division & Plant Physiologist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail eugene.nothnagel@ucr.edu

Natasha Raikhel

phone (951) 827-6370

email natasha.raikhel@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail natasha.raikhel@ucr.edu

Mikeal L. Roose

phone (951) 827-4137

email mikeal.roose@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor of the Graduate Division
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail mikeal.roose@ucr.edu

John G Waines

phone (951) 827-3706

email john.waines@ucr.edu

Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Geneticist, Emeritus
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail john.waines@ucr.edu

Susan Wessler

phone (951) 827-7866

email susan.wessler@ucr.edu

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

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

Department of Botany & Plant Sciences

Current BPS Faculty

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Current BPS Faculty

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COLLEGE OF NATURAL &
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES