Tifton Campus Personnel Directory

Mark Abney Assistant Professor

mrabney@uga.edu 229-386-3097

Angelita L Acebes Assistant Professor

aacebes@uga.edu 229-386-3059

Emran Ali Assistant Research Scientist (Principal Investigator of Plant Molecular Diagnostic Lab)

emran.ali@uga.edu 229-386-7230

Sudeep Bag Assistant Professor- Crop Virology

sudeepbag@uga.edu 229-386-3042

Chuck Bargeron Senior Public Service Associate & Co-Director

cbargero@uga.edu 229-386-3298

Lisa Baxter Assistant Professor and Extension Forage Agronomist

baxterl@uga.edu 229-386-3459

Elizabeth Benton Forest Health Outreach Specialist

ebenton@uga.edu 229-386-3298

John K. Bernard Professor

jbernard@uga.edu 229-391-6856

William D. Branch Professor

wdbranch@uga.edu 229-386-3561

Timothy Branner Brenneman Professor, Peanut and Pecan Disease Management

arachis@uga.edu

Jason H. Brock Plant Disease Diagnostician - Row Crops and Commercial Vegetables

jbrock@uga.edu 229-386-7495

Gary J. Burtle Associate Professor

gburtle@uga.edu 229-386-3218

Peng Chee Professor

pwchee@uga.edu 229-386-7274

David C. Clabo Assistant Professor

david.clabo@uga.edu 229-386-3672

Joann Conner Assistant Research Scientist; Areas of Interest: Apomixis

jconner@uga.edu 229-386-7274

Patrick J. Conner Professor; Areas of Interest: Pecan breeding

pconner@uga.edu 229-386-3903

D. Barry Croom Professor and Academic Program Coordinator

dbcroom@uga.edu 229-386-3116

Alexander S. Csinos Professor Emeritus

csinos@uga.edu 229-386-3373

Albert K. Culbreath Professor, Foliar fungal diseases and Tomato spotted wilt of peanut

spotwilt@uga.edu 229-386-3156

Stanley Culpepper Professor - Extension Weed Scientist

stanley@uga.edu 229-386-3328

Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro da Silva Assistant Professor; Area of Interest: Vegetables

adasilva@uga.edu 229-386-3806

Juan Carlos Diaz-Perez Professor; Areas of Interest: Vegetables, plasticulture, protected agricultural technologies

jcdiaz@uga.edu 229-391-6861

Claudia Dunkley Public Service Associate

cdunkley@uga.edu 229-386-3363

Bhabesh Dutta Assistant Professor and Extension Vegetable Disease Specialist

bhabesh@uga.edu 229-386-7495

Esendugue Greg Fonsah Professor

gfonsah@uga.edu 229-386-3512

Timothy Lane Grey Professor

tgrey@uga.edu 229-386-7239

Abolfazl Hajihassani Assistant Professor of Nematology - Vegetable Research

abolfazl.hajihassani@uga.edu 229-386-3010

Wayne W Hanna Professor

whanna@uga.edu 229-386-3184

Glendon H. Harris Professor, Extension Agronomist - Environmental Soil & Fertilizer

gharris@uga.edu 229-386-3006

Pingsheng Ji Professor - Vegetable Diseases and Applied Microbiology

pji@uga.edu 229-386-3160

Arthur Lee Jones Associate Professor

leejones@uga.edu 229-386-3340

Robert C Kemerait Jr Professor

kemerait@uga.edu 229-386-3355

Joseph LaForest Public Service Assistant

laforest@uga.edu 229-386-3298

Vasileios Liakos Assistant Research Scientist

vliakos@uga.edu 229-472-7425

Yangxuan Liu Assistant Professor

Yangxuan.Liu@uga.edu 229-386-3512

Duncan McClusky Librarian IV

mcclusky@uga.edu 229-386-3447

Walter Scott Monfort Associate Professor

smonfort@uga.edu 229-386-3696

J.Michael Moore Extension Agronomist - Tobacco

jmmoore@uga.edu 229-386-3006

David J. Moorhead Professor - Silviculture

moorhead@uga.edu 229-386-3298

Jonathan E. Oliver Assistant Professor - Fruit Pathologist

jonathanoliver@uga.edu 229-386-3036

Peggy Ozias-Akins Professor; Areas of Interest: Molecular genetics of plant development

pozias@uga.edu 229-386-3902

Cristiane Pilon Assistant Professor - Row Crop Physiology

cpilon@uga.edu 229-386-7274

Wesley Porter Assistant Professor

wporter@uga.edu 229-386-7328

Eric P. Prostko Extension Agronomist - Weed Science

eprostko@uga.edu

Adam N Rabinowitz Assistant Professor

adam.rabinowitz@uga.edu 229-386-3512

Glen C. Rains Professor

grains@uga.edu 229-386-3520

David G Riley Professor

dgr@uga.edu 229-386-3374

Phillip Marion Roberts Extension Entomologist - Cotton

proberts@uga.edu 229-386-3424

Rochelle Sapp Leadership Development Specialist

rsapp@uga.edu 979-571-3067

Jason Schmidt Assistant Professor

jschmid2@uga.edu 229-386-3374

Brian M Schwartz Associate Professor

tifturf@uga.edu 229-386-3272

Amanda R Smith Public Service Associate

a.smith@uga.edu 229-386-3512

Erick Smith Assistant Professor; Areas of Interest: Pomology

ericks@uga.edu 229-386-7495

John L Snider Associate Professor

jlsnider@uga.edu 229-386-7197

Alton N Sparks Professor

asparks@uga.edu 229-386-3424

Katherine L. Stevenson Professor and REI Coordinator, Epidemiology and Fungicide Resistance

ks@uga.edu 229-386-3652

Sha Tao Assistant Professor

stao@uga.edu 229-386-3216

Michael D Toews Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health

mtoews@uga.edu 229-386-3374

Ronald Scott Tubbs Associate Professor

tubbs@uga.edu 229-386-3360

Jennifer J. Tucker Assistant Professor

jjtucker@uga.edu 229-386-3215

George Vellidis Professor

yiorgos@uga.edu 229-386-3442

Lenny Wells Professor; Areas of Interest: Pecans

lwells@uga.edu 229-386-3424

Joe W. West Assistant Dean for the UGA Tifton Campus

dirtif@uga.edu 229-386-3338

Jared Whitaker Assistant Professor & Extension Cotton Agronomist

jared@uga.edu 229-386-3006

Ashley M. Yopp Assistant Professor

ayopp@uga.edu 229-386-3065

Faculty

Tifton Campus Faculty