Department Faculty



Dr. Phillip Mulder, Jr.
Department Head
Entomology Plant Pathology
Dr. Jim Criswell
Extension Pesticide Coordinator		 Dr. Carol Bender
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction
Dr. Jack Dillwith
Insect Biochemistry, Metabolomics		 Dr. Kenneth Conway
Mycology and Horticultural Pathology
Dr. Jonathan Edelson
DASNR Administration		 Dr. John Damicone
Vegetable and Field Crop Diseases
Dr. Kristopher Giles
IPM in Agricultural Settings		 Dr. Jacqueline Fletcher
Plant/food Biosecurity and Phytobacteriology
Dr. Richard Grantham
Insect/Arthropod Diagnostics, Agbiosecurity		 Dr. Carla Garzón
Soilborne Plant Pathogens
Dr. Carmen Greenwood
Insect Ecology		 Dr. Robert Hunger
Wheat Pathology
Dr. Deborah Jaworski
Tick-host Interactions		 Dr. Stephen Marek
Plant Pathogenic Fungi
Dr. Haobo Jiang
Arthropod Innate Immune Responses		 Dr. Francisco Ochoa-Corona
Agbiosecurity, Bioforensics
Dr. Brad Kard
Structural/Urban Pests		 Jennifer Olson
Plant Disease Diagnostics, Agbiosecurity
Dr. George Opit
Stored Product Entomology		 Dr. Damon Smith
Turf and Horticultural Epidemiology
Dr. Eric Rebek
Ornamental/Turfgrass Pest Insects		 Dr. Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz
Molecular and Cellular Plant Virology
Dr. Michael Reiskind
Medical Entomology/Mosquito Ecology		 Dr. Nathan Walker
Turfgrass IPM/Pathology
Dr. Tom Royer
IPM, Field Crops Entomology		 Dr. Astri Wayadande
Insect Vectors of Pathogens
Dr. Andrine Shufran
Youth Outreach
Dr. Justin Talley
Livestock Entomology
Adjunct Entomology Faculty Adjunct Plant Pathology Faculty
Charles Abramson
OSU Psychology
Norm Elliott
USDA-ARS
Forrest Mitchell
Texas A&M
Thomas Phillips
KSU
Gary Puterka
USDA-ARS
Hal Reed
Oral Roberts
James Reinert
Texas A&M
Kevin Shufran
USDA-ARS
 Benny Bruton
USDA-ARS
Hassan Melouk
USDA-ARS
Thomas Mitchell
NCSU
Jerry Moore
OSU CVRS-Perkins
Kirankumar Mysore
Noble Foundation
Richard Nelson
Noble Foundation
Alejandro Penaloza-Vazquez
OSU Ento & Plant Path
Marilyn Roossinck
Noble Foundation
Vincent Russo
USDA-ARS
Kay Scheets
OSU Botany
ChangMing Ye
OSU Ento & Plant Path