Faculty Research

The graduate faculty is composed of members from several units, including the Departments of Plant Biology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources, Landscape Architecture, Enviromental Sciences, Chemistry and the Department of Biological Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences New Brunswick. Faculty may also be affiliated with the Center for Theoretical and Applied Genetics, the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, the Bureau of Biological Research and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Turfgrass Science.

1. Faith Belanger – plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction, fungal endophyte/grass interaction.
2. Joan W. Bennett – Fungal Genetics, Mycology, Mycotoxins, Volatile Organic Compounds
3. Stacy Bonos – Plant breeding and genetic improvement; perennial grasses for turf and biofuel; inheritance of disease resistance and stress tolerance; molecular and traditional breeding approaches
4. A.J. Both – plant management: controlled environment agriculture; greenhouse systems; (alternative) energy systems
5. Raul I. Cabrera – high-value ornamental crops (nursery and greenhouse), mineral nutrition and applied crop physiology, crop irrigation and fertilization management, industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa), soilless substrates and hydroponics, fertilizer use efficiency and pollution, irrigation water sources, urban landscape management
6. Juan Dong – plant cell and development/molecular genetics: cell polarity, asymmetric cell division, stomatal development and patterning
7. Edward Durner – plant management: applied physiology; statistics; CSA management, student farms, organic food production, Physalis production, statistical analysis
8. Paul G. Falkowski – Biogeochemical cycles, photosynthesis, biological oceanography, molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics, physiological adaptation, plant physiology, evolution, mathematical modeling, symbiosis
9. Joel Flagler – people-plant relationships: horticultural therapy, ornamental horticulture
10. Andrea Gallavotti – plant development/molecular biology: maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture; meristem development
11. Thomas J. Gianfagna – postharvest pathology and physiology of fruit and cut flowers; Plant natural products and human health, endophytic fungi, mechanisms of disease resistance
12. Joseph Goffreda – plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, nectarine, apple, and apricot breeding
13. Ann B. Gould – plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology
14. Joseph Heckman – plant management: Soil, soil fertility, soil testing, mineral nutrition, plant health, organic farming, organic farming history, compost, traditional food systems 
15. Bradley I. Hillman – plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant and fungal virology; fungal molecular biology; biocontrol
16. Bingru Huang – Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology
17. Donald Kobayashi – plant bacteriology: biological control; bacterial genomics; bacterial/fungal interactions; biotechnology
18. Eric Lam – epigenetics; programmed cell death; stress tolerance; renewable biomass; duckweeds; RNA therapeutics
19. Michael Lawton – Disease Resistance, Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens, Fusarium Head Blight, Toxins, Programmed Cell Death, Physcomitrella patens, Functional Genomics.
20. Thomas Leustek – metabolic control and engineering of plant metabolism, sulfur assimilation, nutrition, sensing, amino acid biosynthesis and regulation
21. Pal Maliga – molecular biology/biotechnology/ plant breeding and genetic improvement: plastid molecular biology
22. Thomas Molnar – plant breeding and genetic improvement; ornamental and edible tree crops with a current focus on large-bracted dogwoods and hazelnuts
    
23. James Murphy – turfgrass management, turf edaphology, adaptation of turfgrass species and cultivars to traffic stress
24. Peter Oudemans – plant pathology: blueberry/cranberry, Colletrotrichum physalospora coleophoma, GIS, NEWA
    
25. James Polashock – plant breeding and genetic improvement/plant pathology: blueberry and strawberry improvement
26. Ilya Raskin – biotechnology/phytochemistry/natural products/dietary supplements/functional foods/plant diversity/pharmacognosy/international development/biodiversity
27. Mark Gregory Robson – Pesticide toxicology, human and ecological risk assessment.
28. James E. Simon – 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
29. Lena Struwe – Global plant diversity and evolution, biogeography and spatial patterns, historic and contemporary ethnobotany and sustainable bioprospecting of natural products
30. Nilgun Tumer – molecular biology/biotechnology/biochemistry: molecular biology; cellular translation; viral infection
31. Nicholi Vorsa – plant breeding, genetic improvement, fruit quality, polyphenolics, blueberry and cranberry breeding, genetic mapping
32. James F. White Jr. – plant pathology; symbiosis; endophytic microbes; nutritional endosymbiotic systems; associative nitrogen fixation
33. Qing-Li Wu – natural products chemistry and plant medicine
34. Ning Zhang – Fungal ecology, phylogenetics and genomics, and molecular detection of fungal pathogens.