Instructors
Braham Dhillon
Braham is an Assistant Professor in the Plant Pathology Department at University of Florida and located in Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center. He is a molecular plant pathologist working on fungal pathogens of palms, other woody plants and crops of agricultural significance. His research (70%) and extension (30%) programs focus on leveraging pathogen biology for diagnostics and management of fungal pathogens and disease challenges faced by nurseries and stakeholders.
Jose C. Huguet-Tapia
Jose is a Research Assistant Scientist in the Plant Pathology Department at the University of Florida. He is a molecular microbiologist and bioinformatician and leads the Bioinformatics and Big Data Committee within the Department that focus on computational resources and research within the Department. His interests are on genome evolution of plant pathogenic bacteria and host pathogen interactions.
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Erica M. Goss
Erica is an Associate Professor in the Plant Pathology Department at the University of FLorida. She studies the origins, evolution, population structure, and migration of plant pathogens. She is also interested in microbial ecology and the molecular evoution of virulence and host range as relates to the emergence of new pathogens.
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Liliana M. Cano
Liliana is an Assistant Professor in the Plant Pathology Department at University of Florida and located in Indian River Research and Education Center. Her research areas include the restoration of the Indian River citrus production and its premier crop, grapefruit with a focus in plant-microbe interactions and tools for pathogen-assisted breeding in crop plants.
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Anuj Sharma
Anuj is a postdoctoral associate at University of Florida in the Plant Pathology Department. His research is focuses on bacterial spot of tomato and pepper caused by Xanthomonas species. He is currently working on understanding bacterial fitness and developing bioinformatic pipelines for genomic and transcriptomic analyses.
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Previous instructors
Sujan Timilsina
Sujan is a Research Scientist at Charles River Laboratories, Newark, Delaware. He completed his graduate school at University of Florida and has wide range of experience working with microbial sequences related to population and molecular genetics. His current work revolves around microbial sequence database management. His interests are on population and molecular genomics, bacterial evolution and ecology, host-pathogen interactions and microbial ecology, and computational biology.
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UF Plant Pathology
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