Current BPS Faculty
Mary Lu Arpaia
phone (559) 646-6561
email marylu.arpaia@ucr.edu
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
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
Christopher Catano
phone (951) 827-1723
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: Associate Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-4397
E-mail: david.nelson@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
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
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
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
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
Patricia Springer
phone (951) 827-5785
Contact Info:
Title: Professor and Geneticist
Botany and Plant Sciences
Tel: (951) 827-5785
E-mail: patricia.springer@ucr.edu
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
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
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
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
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
Contact Info:
Title: Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division
Botany and Plant Sciences
E-mail: janet.franklin@ucr.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
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
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