Athens Extension Specialists


Production Horticulturist/Organic

Timothy Coolong Professor & SARE State Coordinator; Emphasis: Vegetable production
Horticulture Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program - Southern Region

Food Safety Specialist

Laurel L Dunn Extension Coordinator and Assistant Professor
Food Science & Technology

Athens Research Faculty


Organic Production

Kate Cassity-Duffey Assistant Professor; Emphasis: Organic production
Horticulture

Controlled Environment Horticulture

Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi Associate Professor; Emphasis: Controlled environment horticulture
Horticulture

Cucurbit Breeder

Cecilia E. McGregor Professor; Emphasis: Cucurbit breeding, genetics & genomics
Horticulture Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (IPBGG)

Ripening and Post-Harvest Physiology

Savithri Nambeesan Assistant Research Scientist; Emphasis: Ripening & post-harvest physiology
Horticulture

Tomato Breeder

Esther van der Knaap Professor; Emphasis: Tomatoes, plant development, genetics & genomics
Horticulture Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (IPBGG)

Controlled Environment Physiology

Marc W. van Iersel Vincent J. Dooley Professor; Emphasis: Controlled environment agriculture, plant physiology & nutrition
Horticulture

Griffin Extension Specialist


Consumer Fruits and Vegetables

Bob Westerfield Senior Public Service Associate; Emphasis: Consumer fruits & vegetables
Horticulture

Griffin Research Faculty


Entomologist

Tifton Extension Specialists


Weed Scientist

Stanley Culpepper Professor - Extension Weed Scientist
Crop & Soil Sciences National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL)

Postharvest Horticulturist

Angelos Deltsidis Assistant Professor & Post-harvest Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Post-harvest fruit & vegetables physiology
Horticulture

Plant Pathologist

Bhabesh Dutta Associate Professor and Extension Vegetable Disease Specialist
Plant Pathology

Economist

Agricultural & Applied Economics

Team Leader & Extension Horticulturist

Ted McAvoy Assistant Professor & Vegetable Production Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Vegetable production
Horticulture

Entomologist

Tifton Research Faculty


Virologist

Sudeep Bag Assistant Professor- Crop Virology
Plant Pathology

Nemotologist

Intiaz Amin Chowdhury Assistant Professor of Cotton and Vegetable Crop Nematology
Plant Pathology

Research Horticulturist

Juan Carlos Diaz-Perez Professor; Emphasis: Vegetable production & plasticulture
Horticulture

Entomologist

David G Riley Professor
Entomology