RAMIN YADEGARI - Key Persons


Alexander Bucksch

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Alexandra Dalaya


Alonso Favela

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Amritha Wickramage

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice
  • Assistant Professor of Practice - School of Plant Sciences

Barry Pryor

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences, BIO5
Dr. Pryor's research interests include biological and cultural control of disease in field, tree, and vegetable crops, phylogenetic analysis and species concepts in fungi, secondary fungal metabolites, and environmental mycology. Additional...

Bentley Fane

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences, BIO5, Department of Immunobiology, Genetics - GIDP, Applied Biosciences - GIDP

Brooke Sykes


Bud Antle Endowed

Job Titles:
  • Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor
  • Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Carl Schmalzel

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist, Senior
  • Research Specialist, Senior - School of Plant Sciences

Ciara Garcia


Cory Keith


Dakota Salyer


David Baltrus

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences
The Baltrus lab is interested in understanding microbial evolution with a focus on the mechanisms and costs of adaptation and guided by expectations from genomics and population genetics.

David Galbraith

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director
  • Interim Director - School of Plant Sciences
David Galbraith received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Cambridge University. He was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Research Interests Dr. Galbraith's research interests include biological instrumentation, developmental and tissue-specific gene expression in eukaryotes, functional genomics and proteomics, and issues in biodiversity. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in 2002, and served as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology from 2011-2017. He is also an Associate Editor for Cytometry, and was a founding Associate Editor for Plant Methods. He served as Secretary of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (I.S.A.C.) from 2016-2020.

Dennis T. Ray

Job Titles:
  • University Distinguished Professor
  • University Distinguished Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • University Distinguished Professor - School of Plant Sciences, Arid Lands Resource Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Dr. A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor and Curator, RLG Mycological Herbarium
  • Professor and Curator, RLG Mycological Herbarium - School of Plant Sciences
  • Research Lab / Affiliation

Dr. Duke Pauli

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Dr. Ursula Schuch

Job Titles:
  • Extension Specialist and Professor
  • Extension Specialist and Professor - School of Plant Sciences
Dr. Schuch's research addresses issues in plant production and landscape management with the goal to provide information on how to produce and maintain healthy, functional plants with minimum inputs.

Dr. Zhongguoo Xiong

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Edward Nigh

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Eliot Herman

Job Titles:
  • Biosciences Research Laboratories 218B
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences, Bio5

Emma Jong


Emmanuel Miguel Gonzalez


Eric Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences

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Frans Tax

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Molecular and Cellular Biology

Gaby Cordova

Job Titles:
  • Accountant II
  • Accountant II - School of Plant Sciences

Giovanni Melandri

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Hailey Buell


Hiu Tung (Cecilia) Chow


J. Bruce Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

James OLeary

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Jeff Dangl

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Jeffrey C. Silvertooth

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Extension Specialist - Environmental Science - Soil, Water and Environmental Science
  • Professor, Extension Specialist - Environmental Science - Soil, Water and Environmental Science, the School of Plant Sciences
Jeffrey Silvertooth received a Ph.D. in Soil Science (Soil Fertility) at Oklahoma State University in 1986. He also has a Master's degree in Agronomy, which he also received from Oklahoma State University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Agronomy from Kansas State University. Here at the University of Arizona, he teaches a courses in the Management of Arid Lands and Salt Affected Soils, Introduction to Soil Science, and Soil Fertility (SWES Dept.), Crop Science and Production (PLS Dept.), along with a Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences modular course and freshman colloquium. His research interests are directed towards the development of crop production management strategies (primarily irrigated cotton, cantaloupes, and chilies (green, red, and jalapenos)) that optimize the soil-plant system agronomically and economically, with full consideration of the short- and long-term impact of inputs environmentally. A study of the soil-plant relationships regarding nutrients essential to cotton, cantaloupes, and chiles is an important part of the program as well as the management of salinity and sodicity in agricultural soils. The overall goal, by interacting with other programs, is to reduce the level of inputs such as irrigation water, fertilizers, and pesticides and maintain profitability and sustainability in both the short- and long-term agricultural production systems in the desert Southwest. Dr. Silvertooth has received several awards and recognitions including the Ag-100 Award for Excellence in Agricultural Research and Extension, 1996 and the Arizona Farm Bureau Environmental Protection and Technology Award, 1995, and he became a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy in 2010. Silvertooth, J.C. 1993/1999. Management of arid lands and salt affected soils - notes and reference manual. SWES 401/501. University of Arizona. (220 pages).

Jeffrey Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Research Professional II
  • Research Professional II - School of Plant Sciences

Jesse Woodson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Jose Carvalho de Souza Dias

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Specialist, Plant Sciences
  • Assistant Specialist, Plant Sciences - School of Plant Sciences / Maricopa Agricultural Center
Dr. Dias joined the School of Plant Sciences Department, at the University of Arizona, in January 2022. He is based at the Maricopa Agricultural Center where he serves as an Assistant Professor and Extension Weed Scientist. Dr. Dias statewide...

Joseph Myers

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff
  • Research Staff - School of Plant Sciences

Judith Brown

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Regents Professor
  • Regents Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • Regents Professor - School of Plant Sciences, BIO - 5 Faculty, Department of Entomology - Joint, UA Plant Virus Diagnostics Laboratory, Director

Karen Schumaker

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Laura Krings


Leslie Bonilla

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Finance and Administration
  • Manager, Finance and Administration - School of Plant Sciences

Lizeth Enriquez

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Generalist II
  • Human Resources Generalist II - School of Plant Sciences

Lizette Montes

Job Titles:
  • Accountant I
  • Accountant I - School of Plant Sciences

Marc Orbach

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Director, Keating Select Agent BSL3 Laboratory

Mario Marquez

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Systems Administrator
  • Systems Administrator, Principal - School of Plant Sciences

Mark Beilstein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Matthew A. Jenks

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Bud Antle Endowed Chair for Excellence
  • Professor, Bud Antle Endowed Chair for Excellence - School of Plant Sciences
Jenks' research seeks to elucidate whole plant and cellular mechanisms underlying plant adaptability to both biotic and abiotic environmental stress, with a main focus on the plant cuticle.

MD Nafis Ul Alam


Merle Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Michael McClure

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Michelle McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor
  • Associate Research Professor - School of Plant Sciences
Dr. McMahon researches phylogenetic and phylogenomic methods, systematics of the legume family (Fabaceae), and phylogenetic diversity of regional floras. She also directs the UA Herbarium.

Ming-Min Lee

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist
  • Research Specialist - School of Plant Sciences

Mohammad Pessarakli

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
  • Research Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Monica Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Neda Arad


Ravi Palanivelu

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Rebecca Mosher

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor
  • Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Rebecca Schomer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Richard Jorgensen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Robert Leonard

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Robert McDaniel

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Rod A. Wing

Job Titles:
  • Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor
  • Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor - School of Plant Sciences

Samantha Orchard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice
  • Associate Professor of Practice - School of Plant Sciences
Previously worked as a scientist in the biotechnology industry and now facilitates student learning of biotechnology. Specialties are heterologous protein production and industrial use of microbes. [Dr. Orchard does not train graduate students.]

Sebastian Calleja


Seunghee Lee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Research Scientist
  • Assistant Research Scientist - School of Plant Sciences

Sheri Steidl

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff
  • Research Staff - School of Plant Sciences

Snigdha Rai

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Post - Doctoral Research Associate

Sofia Avelar


Steven Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Tanya M. Quist

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice
  • Associate Professor of Practice - School of Plant Sciences
Tanya Quist received a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Purdue University's Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture where she studied in the Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology. Her thesis and post-doctoral work used whole...

Timmy Kendall

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist
  • Research Specialist - School of Plant Sciences

Timothy Rast

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist, Senior
  • Research Specialist, Senior - School of Plant Sciences

Valerie Teetor

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist, Senior
  • Research Specialist, Senior - School of Plant Sciences

William McCloskey

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Xue Pan


Zhongguo Xiong

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor