Faculty

Tifton Campus Faculty

Mark Abney Professor and Extension Coordinator
Douglas Amaral Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist | Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
Sudeep Bag Associate Professor- Crop Virology
Chuck Bargeron Senior Public Service Associate & Director
Lisa Baxter Associate Professor and State Forage Specialist
Akshaya Biswal Assistant Research Scientist; Emphasis: Peanut Genetics, Breeding, Genomics, Genetic Engineering & Genome Editing
William D. Branch Georgia Seed Development Professor in Peanut Breeding and Genetics
Nino Brown Assistant Professor of Peanut Breeding
Peng Chee Professor | Cotton Breeding and Genetics, Host- Plant Resistance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genomics
Intiaz Amin Chowdhury Assistant Professor of Cotton and Vegetable Crop Nematology
Ye (Juliet) Chu Assistant Professor, Emphasis: Blueberry breeding
Josh Clevenger Faculty Investigator | HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Joann Conner Associate Research Scientist; Emphasis: Apomixis, plant reproduction
Patrick J. Conner Professor & Tifton REI Coordinator; Emphasis: Pecan & muscadine breeding
Albert K. Culbreath Professor, Foliar fungal diseases and Tomato spotted wilt of peanut
Stanley Culpepper Professor - Extension Weed Scientist
Angelos Deltsidis Assistant Professor & Post-harvest Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Post-harvest fruit & vegetables physiology
Juan Carlos Diaz-Perez Professor; Emphasis: Vegetable production (conventional, organic & sustainable); plasticulture; environmental physiology
Claudia Dunkley Public Service Associate
Bhabesh Dutta Professor and Extension Vegetable Disease Specialist
Vasilia Fasoula Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist and Consultant
Timothy Lane Grey Assistant Dean, Tifton Campus | Professor
Guy Hancock Public Service Associate
Alejandra Maria Jimenez Madrid Director- Plant Molecular Diagnostic Lab
Joseph LaForest Senior Public Service Associate
Lauren Lazaro Assistant Professor | Extension Precision Agriculture Specialist
Ted McAvoy Assistant Professor & Vegetable Production Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Vegetable production
Elizabeth McCarty Forest Health Outreach Specialist
J.Michael Moore Extension Agronomist - Tobacco
Amol Nankar Assistant Professor; Emphasis: vegetable breeding
Jonathan E. Oliver Associate Professor - Fruit Pathologist
Peggy Ozias-Akins Distinguished Research Professor; Emphasis: Molecular genetics of plant development, peanuts
Laxmi Pandey Plant Disease Diagnostician
Luan Oliveira Assistant Professor and Precision Ag Extension Specialist
Cristiane Pilon Associate Professor - Row Crop Physiology
Eric P. Prostko Extension Agronomist - Weed Science
Phillip Marion Roberts Professor, REI Coordinator (Tifton Campus), Associate Dept Head
Zilfina Rubio Ames Assistant Professor and Small Fruit Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Blueberry, small fruits
M'Randa Sandlin Academic Professional Associate
Taylor Randell Singleton Assistant Professor | Extension Sustainability Specialist
Amanda R Smith Senior Public Service Associate
Mary Sutton Assistant Professor & Citrus Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Citrus production
Miaoying Tian Ji/Georgia Vegetable Industry Distinguished Professorship in Plant Pathology; Associate Professor
Lenny Wells Professor & Pecan Extension Specialist; Emphasis: Pecans