SCRI Team

Project Directors

Frank Louws Director NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management
Professor and Extension Specialist
Deptartment of Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC 27695
frank_louws@ncsu.edu    
Josh Freeman Assistant Professor, NFREC – University of Florida        Quincy, FL 32351 joshuafr@ufl.edu    
Richard Hassell Professor, CREC-Clemson University, Charleston, SC 29424 rhassel@clemson.edu    
Matthew Kleinhenz Professor, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science,
The Ohio State University
Wooster, OH 44691
kleinhenz.1@osu.edu    
Chieri Kubota Professor, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
kubota.10@osu.edu    
Erin Rosskopf Research Microbiologist, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory
Fort Pierce, FL 34945
erin.rosskopf@usda.gov
Xin Zhao Professor, Horticultural Sciences Department
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
zxin@ufl.edu    

Key Personnel

Clemson University

Paula Agudelo Professor Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences pagudel@clemson.edu
Anthony Keinath Professor of Plant Pathology tknth@clemson.edu
Gilbert Miller Distinguished County Agent and Area Vegetable Specialist GMLLR@exchange.clemson.edu

Kansas State University

Cary Rivard
Director, Kansas State Research and Extension Horticulture and Forestry and Extension Vegetable and Fruit Crop Specialist crivard@ksu.edu

North Carolina State University

Chris Gunter Assistant Professor and Vegetable Production Specialist, Department of Horticultural Science chris_gunter@ncsu.edu
Katie Jennings Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Science katie_jennings@ncsu.edu
David Monks Professor, Assistant Director of Research, NCARS, Department of Horticultural Science david_monks@ncsu.edu
Dilip Panthee Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Science Dilip_Panthee@ncsu.edu
Penny Perkins-Veazie Professor, Department of Horticultural Science penelope_perkins@ncsu.edu
Jonathan Schultheis Professor, Department of Horticultural Science jonathan_schultheis@ncsu.edu

The Ohio State University

David Francis Professor, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science francis.77@osu.edu
Joe Scheerens Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science scheerens.1@osu.edu

The Pennsylvania State University

Francesco Di Gioia
Assistant Professor, Vegetable Crop Science fxd92@psu.edu

USDA Horticultural Research Laboratory (Fort Pierce, FL)

Scott Adkins Research Plant Pathologist scott.adkins@usda.gov

U.S. Vegetable Laboratory (Charleston, SC)

Shaker Kousik Research Plant Pathologist shaker.kousik@usda.gov
Pat Wechter Research Plant Pathologist pat.wechter@usda.gov

University of Arizona

Young-Jun Son Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering and Director, Program in Advanced Integration of Manufacturing Systems and Technologies (AIMST) son@sie.arizona.edu
Russell Tronstad Professor and Specialist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics tronstad@ag.arizona.edu

University of California

Brenna Aegerter
Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops, Plant Pathology bjaegerter@ucanr.edu
Margaret Lloyd
Small Farms Advisor, Organic Vegetable Crops mglloyd@ucanr.edu
Gene Miyao
Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops emmiyao@ucdavis.edu

University of Florida

Jeffrey K. Brecht Professor, Horticultural Sciences Department and Director, UF/IFAS Research Center for Food Distribution & Retailing jkbrecht@.ufl.edu
Zhifeng Gao Associate Professor, Food and Resource Economics. zfgao@ufl.edu

Washington State University

Carol Miles
Professor,  Department of Horticulture milesc@wsu.edu