Faculty

Faculty members in the Department of Plant Pathology come from many different backgrounds and focus on a variety of disciplines.

Megan Kennelly, PhD

Department Head
Horticultural Crops

Eduard Akhunov, PhD

University Distinguished Professor | Wheat Genetics Resource Center Director
Wheat Genetics & Genomics

Alina Akhunova, PhD

Research Professor | Integrated Genomics Director
Genomics

Kelsey Andersen Onofre, PhD

Assistant Professor
Wheat & Forage Crops

Rodrigo Borba Onofre, PhD

Assistant Professor
Row Crops

Myron Bruce, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Applied Wheat Pathology

David Cook, PhD

Associate Professor | Graduate Program Director
Plant-Microbe Interactions

Giovana Cruppe, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Wheat Blast

Erick DeWolf, PhD

Professor
Plant Disease

John Fellers

Associate Professor

Dal-Hoe Koo, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Wheat Cytogenetics

John Leslie, PhD

University Distinguished Professor
Plant Fungi

Chris Little, PhD

Professor
Diseases & Fungal Pathogens

Sanzhen Liu, PhD

Professor
Plant & Microbe Genomes

Shahideh Nouri, PhD

Associate Professor
Plant Viruses

Judy O'Mara

Instructor | Plant Diagnostic Lab Director
Plant Diagnostics

Jessica L. Rupp Noller, PhD

Associate Professor
Wheat Pathology

Jim Stack, PhD

University Distinguished Professor | Great Plains Diagnostic Network Director
Plant Diagnostics

Richard Todd, PhD

Associate Professor
Molecular Genetics

Chris Toomajian, PhD

Associate Professor
Genomics

Harold Trick, PhD

Professor
Plant Molecular Biology