Research Expertise and Interest
disease ecology, plant disease, vector-borne, Xylella fastidiosa, emerging diseases
Research Description
We are interested in three broad research areas: i) ecology of emerging diseases, ii) pathogen transmission biology, and iii) insect-microbe interactions.
In the News
What a Century-Old Grapevine Reveals About a Disease That Plagues Wine Country
Berkeley researchers used bacterial DNA from a 120-year-old herbarium specimen to reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in California.
AAAS Adds Ten New Fellows From UC Berkeley
Ten members of the UC Berkeley community – including nine faculty and one staff member — have been elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, one of the most distinctive honors within the scientific community.
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