Faculty

Department of Horticulture faculty

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Name	Area of Concentration	Graduate Field/s
Nina Bassuk Professor nlb2@cornell.edu	Urban horticulture, horticultural physiology, landscape management, nursery crops, plant propagation, soil management, woody landscape plants	Horticulture Landscape Architecture
Terence R. Bates Sr. Research Associate trb7@cornell.edu	Viticulture
Taryn Bauerle Assist Prof bauerle@cornell.edu	Root biology	Horticulture
Robin Bellinder Professor rrb3@cornell.edu	Weed science, vegetable production	Horticulture International Agriculture and Rural Development Plant Protection Soil and Crop Sciences
Thomas Björkman Associate Professor tnb1@cornell.edu	Vegetable crop physiology	Horticulture Plant Biology
Lori Brewer Senior Extension Associate ljb7@cornell.edu	Adult outreach in garden-based learning, state leadership of Master Gardener Volunteer program, horticultural citizen science
Mark Bridgen Professor mpb27@cornell.edu	Plant breeding, tissue culture, floriculture and greenhouses	Horticulture Plant Breeding
Susan Brown Professor and Associate Chair skb3@cornell.edu	Plant breeding (apples)	Plant Breeding
Lailiang Cheng Associate Professor lc89@cornell.edu	Nutrition physiology of fruit crops	Horticulture
Peter Davies Professor pjd2@cornell.edu	Plant biochemistry and physiology	Horticulture Plant Biology
Laurie Drinkwater Associate Professor led24@cornell.edu	Agroecology, soil quality	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Horticulture Soil and Crop Sciences
Marcia Eames-Sheavly Senior Extension Associate me14@cornell.edu	Garden-based learning, children and youth development
Susheng Gan Associate Professor sg288@cornell.edu	Plant senescence, gene regulation, post-harvest biology, genomics, bioenergy	Horticulture Plant Biology
Phillip Griffiths Associate Professor pdg8@cornell.edu	Breeding and genetics of Brassica and Phaseolus crops	Horticulture Plant Breeding
Donald Halseth Associate Professor deh3@cornell.edu	Potato and dry bean production	Horticulture
Stephen A. Hoying Senior Extension Associate sah19@cornell.edu	Fruit cultural practices	Horticulture
Jenny Kao-Kniffin Assistant Professor jtk57@cornell.edu	Weed science, urban ecology, rhizosphere biology	Horticulture
Alan N. Lakso Professor anl2@cornell.edu	Fruit crop physiology and culture	Horticulture Plant Biology
Timothy E. Martinson Senior Extension Associate tem2@cornell.edu	Viticulture Extension
Neil Mattson Assistant Professor nsm47@cornell.edu	Greenhouse horticulture	Horticulture
Michael Mazourek Assistant Professor mm284@cornell.edu	Plant and biochemical genetics, vegetables	Plant breeding
Ian Merwin Professor im13@cornell.edu	Tree fruit, viticulture and enology, orchard weed and soil management, agroecology	Horticulture International Agriculture and Rural Development
William Miller Professor wbm8@cornell.edu	Floriculture, greenhouse and nursery crops, physiology, post-harvest management	Horticulture
Jane Mt. Pleasant Associate Professor jm21@cornell.edu	Plants and human well-being, indigenous agriculture	American Indian Studies International Agriculture and Rural Development Soil and Crop Sciences
Kenneth Mudge Associate Professor kwm2@cornell.edu	Agroforestry, plant propagation, nursery crops, physiology, woody landscape plants, horticultural distance learning	Horticulture
Travis Park Associate professor tdp9@cornell.edu	Agricultural science education	Education
Scott Peters Associate professor sp236@cornell.edu	Adult and extension education	Education International development
A. Martin Petrovic Professor amp4@cornell.edu	Turfgrass science	Horticulture
Marvin Pritts Professor and Chair mpp3@cornell.edu	Small fruit production	Horticulture
Donald Rakow E N Wilds Director, Cornell Plantations dr14@cornell.edu	Public garden management	Horticulture
Anusuya Rangarajan Senior Extension Associate ar47@cornell.edu	Fresh market vegetable production, sustainable agriculture, reduced tillage, organic vegetable production, small farms	Horticulture
Stephen Reiners Associate Professor sr43@cornell.edu	Vegetable systems	Horticulture
Bruce Reisch Professor bir1@cornell.edu	Breeding and genetics (grapes)	Horticulture Plant Breeding
Terence Robinson Professor tlr1@cornell.edu	Orchard production systems and management, fruit tree physiology	Horticulture
Frank Rossi Associate Professor fsr3@cornell.edu	Turfgrass science	Horticulture
Lawrence B. Smart Associate Professor lbs33@cornell.edu	Breeding and genomics of willow bioenergy crops	Horticulture Plant breeding
Alan Taylor Professor agt1@cornell.edu	Seed science and technology	Horticulture Soil and Crop Sciences
Justine Vanden Heuvel Associate Professor jev32@cornell.edu	Viticulture	Horticulture
Christopher Watkins Professor cbw3@cornell.edu	Postharvest science	Food Science and Technology Horticulture
Courtney Weber Associate Professor caw34@cornell.edu	Plant breeding and genetics (berries)	Horticulture Plant Breeding
Thomas Whitlow Associate Professor thw2@cornell.edu	Urban ecology	Horticulture Landscape Architecture
H. Christian Wien Professor hcw2@cornell.edu	Crop management or crop science Floriculture Horticultural Sciences Vegetables	Horticulture International Agriculture and Rural Development
David Wolfe Professor dww5@cornell.edu	Environmental and stress physiology, soil health and water management, climate change, agroecology, vegetable crops.	Horticulture Soil and Crop Sciences
Kenong Xu Assistant Professor kx27@cornell.edu	Tree fruit genomics	Horticulture

Adjunct faculty:

Angela Baldo, Computational Biologist, USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit & Grape Genetics Research Unit, Geneva.
Gennaro Fazio, Geneticist, USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva.
Joanne Labate, Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva.
Jason Londo, Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS Grape Genetics Research Unit, Geneva
Larry D. Robertson, Geneticist, USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva.
Gan-Yuan Zhong, Research Leader, USDA-ARS Grape Genetics Research Unit, Geneva.

Courtesy:

John Sanford, Courtesy Associate Professor, Dept. of Horticulture, Geneva.
Sonja Skelly, Courtesy Senior Lecturer, Director of Education, Cornell Plantations