Gary L. Altman
Teaching Instructor
gla32@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6321
Horticultural Therapy, People-Plant Relationships, Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Evaluation and Return to Work Coordination, Green Industry Job Development/Job Placement
Sonia Arora
Teaching Instructor
sonia.arora@rutgers.edu
848-932-6337
Medicinal plants, ethnopharmacology, structural bioinformatics, computer aided drug design, nutraceuticals, natural products & human health
Faith Belanger
Associate Professor
belanger@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6389
Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction, fungal endophyte/grass interaction
Joan W. Bennett
Distinguished Professor
bennett@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6223
Fungal Genetics, Mycology, Mycotoxins, Volatile Organic Compounds
Thierry E. Besancon
Associate Extension Specialist in Weed Science
thierry.besancon@rutgers.edu
609-726-1590 Ext. 4442
Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
Stacy Bonos
Professor
bonos@rutgers.edu
848-932-6367
Plant breeding and genetic improvement; perennial grasses for turf and biofuel; inheritance of disease resistance and stress tolerance; molecular and traditional breeding approaches
Raul I. Cabrera
Associate Extension Specialist in Nursery Production & Management
cabrera@njaes.rutgers.edu
856-391-7632
Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Ming-Yi Chou
Assistant Extension Specialist
mingyi.chou@rutgers.edu
848-932-6395
Turfgrass Pathology, microbial ecology, multi-omic, fungicide efficacy
Tiemi N. Curry
Research Associate
curry@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6374
Plant tissue culture/biotechnology: plant cell, tissue and organ culture – research development and production; plant micropropagation, for selected, highly valued Rutgers hybrid breeding programs
Rong Di
Associate Research Professor
di@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6350
Molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular biology, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, biofuel
Juan Dong
Professor
dong@waksman.rutgers.edu
848-445-7034
Plant cell and development/molecular genetics: cell polarity, asymmetric cell division, stomatal development and patterning
Edward Durner
Associate Professor
durner@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6366
Plant management: applied physiology; statistics; CSA management, student farms, organic food production, Physalis production, statistical analysis
Matthew Elmore
Assistant Extension Specialist
matthew.elmore@rutgers.edu
848-932-6324
Weed science in turfgrass, landscapes, pastures and forages
Joel Flagler
County Agent
flagler@sebs.rutgers.edu
201-336-6781
People-plant relationships: horticultural therapy, ornamental horticulture
Andrea Gallavotti
Associate Professor
andrea.gallavotti@rutgers.edu
848-445-6421
Plant development/molecular biology: maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture; meristem development
Thomas J. Gianfagna
Professor
gianfagna@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6369
Postharvest pathology and physiology of fruit and cut flowers; Plant natural products and human health, endophytic fungi, mechanisms of disease resistance
Joseph Goffreda
Associate Professor
goffreda@sebs.rutgers.edu
609-758-7311 ext. 13
Plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, nectarine, apple, and apricot breeding
Ann B. Gould
Associate Extension Specialist
gould@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6398
Plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology
Serpil Guran
Courtesy Professor
sg795@rutgers.edu
848-932-6398
Food-Energy-Water Nexus and Waste synergy by promoting integration of organic waste into development of closed-loop bio-economy
Joseph Heckman
Extension Specialist in Soil Fertility
heckman@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6333
Plant management: Soil, soil fertility, soil testing, mineral nutrition, plant health, organic farming, organic farming history, compost, traditional food systems
Bradley I. Hillman
Professor
bradley.hillman@rutgers.edu
Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant and fungal virology; fungal molecular biology; biocontrol
Joshua A. Honig
Assistant Research Professor
josh.honig@rutgers.edu
848-932-6281
Plant molecular biology/plant breeding: DNA genotyping, DNA fingerprinting, DNA sequencing, genetic linkage mapping, and marker assisted selection (MAS), turfgrass breeding
Bingru Huang
Distinguished Professor
huang@sebs.rutgers.edu
732-932-9711 ext. 302
Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology
H. Rodolfo Juliani
Part-Time Lecturer
hjuliani@rutgers.edu
848-932-6240
Donald Kobayashi
Professor, Department Chair
kobayashi@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6393
Plant bacteriology: biological control; bacterial genomics; bacterial/fungal interactions; biotechnology
Norman Lalancette
Associate Extension Specialist in Tree Fruit Pathology
lalancette@njaes.rutgers.edu
856-391-7624
Plant pathology: tree fruit pathology; epidemiology and plant disease control
Eric Lam
Distinguished Professor
lam@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6351
Epigenetics; programmed cell death; stress tolerance; renewable biomass; duckweeds; RNA therapeutics
Michael Lawton
Associate Professor
lawton@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6166
Disease Resistance, Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens, Fusarium Head Blight, Toxins, Programmed Cell Death, Physcomitrella patens, Functional Genomics.
Thomas Leustek
Professor, SEBS - Dean of Academic Programs
leustek@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6296
Metabolic control and engineering of plant metabolism, sulfur assimilation, nutrition, sensing, amino acid biosynthesis and regulation
Xiao-Ping Li
Associate Research Scientist
xpli@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6355
Mechanisms of cellular toxicity of ricin and Shiga toxins. Fragment based antidotes development against ricin and Shiga toxins
Desmond Lun
Courtesy Professor
desmond.lun@rutgers.edu
856-225-6094
Bioinformatics, systems biology, metabolic engineering
website
Pal Maliga
Distinguished Professor
maliga@waksman.rutgers.edu
848-445-5329
Molecular biology/biotechnology/ plant breeding and genetic improvement: plastid molecular biology
John E. McLaughlin
Assistant Research Professor
mclaughj@rutgers.edu
848-932-6274
Yeast genetics, plant pathology, trichothecene mycotoxins, ribosome inactivating proteins
Paul Meers
Assistant Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Biotechnology
paul.meers@rutgers.edu
848-932-6230
Membrane dynamics and intercellular vesicle transport (including membrane fusion; protein-lipid interactions): drug delivery/transfection technologies, nanotechnology, biofilms, spectroscopic assays and imaging
Thomas Molnar
Associate Professor
thomas.molnar@rutgers.edu
848) 932-6330
Plant breeding and genetic improvement; ornamental and edible tree crops with a current focus on large-bracted dogwoods and hazelnuts
Xenia Morin
Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Agriculture and Food Systems
xmorin@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-3502
Food systems studies. Local through global food production and its ability to respond to climate change while maintaining health, the environment and economic sustainability.
James A. Murphy
Extension Specialist
jamurphy@rutgers.edu
848-932-6326
Turfgrass management, turf edaphology, adaptation of turfgrass species and cultivars to traffic stress
Peter Oudemans
Professor
oudemans@rutgers.edu
609-726-1590 ext. 4420
Plant pathology: blueberry/cranberry, Colletrotrichum physalospora coleophoma, GIS, NEWA
Nrupali Patel
Teaching Instructor, Director, Undergraduate Program in Plant Science
npatel@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6392
Plant Pathology, Molecular Biology, bacterial-fungal interactions, emerging plant bacterial diseases
Ilya Raskin
Distinguished Professor
raskin@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6267
Biotechnology/phytochemistry/natural products/dietary supplements/functional foods/plant diversity/pharmacognosy/international development/biodiversity
website
Mark Gregory Robson
Distinguished Professor
mark.robson@rutgers.edu
848-932-6276
Pesticide toxicology, human and ecological risk assessment
James E. Simon
Distinguished Professor
jimsimon@rutgers.edu
848-932-6239
Plant diversity/natural products/plant breeding and genetic improvement: new crop development, plant domestication of high value crops, NonTimber Forest Species, sustainable development of indigenous resources
Lena Struwe
Professor
lena.struwe@rutgers.edu
848-932-6343
Global plant diversity and evolution, biogeography and spatial patterns, historic and contemporary ethnobotany and sustainable bioprospecting of natural products
Nilgun Tumer
Distinguished Professor
tumer@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6359
Molecular biology/biotechnology/biochemistry: molecular biology; cellular translation; viral infection
Daniel L. Ward
Associate Extension Specialist in Pomology and Associate Research Professor
daniel.ward@rutgers.edu
856-391-7628
Pomology - cultural practices and crop management for fruit crops
James F. White Jr.
Professor
jwhite@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6286
Plant pathology; symbiosis; endophytic microbes; nutritional endosymbiotic systems; associative nitrogen fixation
Qing-Li Wu
Associate Research Professor
qlwu@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6238
Natural products chemistry and plant medicine
C. Andrew Wyenandt
Extension Specialist in Vegetable Pathology
wyenandt@njaes.rutgers.edu
856-391-7644
Phytophthora capsici and anthracnose fruit rot control in bell and other peppers, cucurbit powdery and downy mildew control, fungicide resistance management, fungicide resistance guidelines, basil downy mildew control
Mark Zander
Assistant Professor
mzander@waksman.rutgers.edu
848-445-4684
Plant (epi)genomics, plant immunity, plant hormone signaling, transcriptional regulation, plant stress responses
Ning Zhang
Professor
zhang@sebs.rutgers.edu
848-932-6348
Fungal biodiversity, phylogenetics and genomics; microbiomes associated with turfgrass and bioenergy plants; and molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens.
Faculty Emeriti
Jerry Baron
Emeritus
jbaron@rutgers.edu
IR-4 Project
Plant management/plant pathology: horticultural crop pest management
Chee-Kok Chin
Emeritus
Plant diversity/natural products/plant breeding and genetic improvement: asparagus improvement; bioactive fatty acids
Bruce Clarke
Emeritus
bruce.clarke@rutgers.edu
Plant pathology: turfgrass pathology, ectotrophic root infecting fungi
Hugo K. Dooner
Emeritus
Plant Breeding and Genetics section
Molecular biology/biotechnology: functional genomics; homologous meiotic recombination analysis in maize
Zane R. Helsel
Emeritus Extension Specialist in Agriculture Energy
helsel@rutgers.edu
Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Agriculture Energy, Field and Forage Crop Production
Melvin Henninger
Emeritus
Plant management: plant management: potato and vegetable crop horticulture
Harry W. Janes
Emeritus
hjanes@rutgers.edu
Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Plant management: controlled environmental agriculture; plant environmental interaction
Gojko Jelenkovic
Emeritus
Molecular biology/biotechnology: transgenic plants; gene isolation; gene characterization
Brad Majek
Emeritus
Plant Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions section
Plant management: vegetable and fruit weed control
William Meyer
Emeritus
Plant breeding and genetic improvement: turfgrass breeding
David R. Mears
Emeritus
Plant management: controlled environmental agriculture; greenhouse systems
Elwin R. Orton
Emeritus
Woody ornamentals plant breeding, primarily those of Ilex (hollies) and Cornus (dogwoods)
Thomas Orton
Emeritus
Plant breeding and genetic improvement: vegetable crops; extension in value-added systems development
John Sacalis
Emeritus
Plant diversity/natural products: cut-flower postharvest physiology; turfgrass endophytes; natural products
Nicholi Vorsa
Emeritus
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, fruit quality, polyphenolics, blueberry and cranberry breeding, genetic mapping
Barbara Zilinskas
Emeritus
barbara.zilinskas@rutgers.edu
848-932-6224
Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
Molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular biology and physiology of the response of plants to environmental stress; oxidative stress and antioxidant protective mechanisms; genetic modification of turfgrass species