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Statistical modeling is an important part of my research program. I also work in several interdisciplinary projects with other plant pathologists and plant scientists to better understand and manage plant diseases. My research on disease epidemiology serves as a model for similar diseases on many crops. Research on head blight involves risk assessment and epidemic prediction, dispersal, environmental effects on epidemics, disease dynamics, crop loss assessment and prediction of toxin contamination, and development of optimal management methods. For the past 15 years, I have conducted most of my basic and applied research on Fusarium head blight of wheat and barley, caused primarily by Fusarium graminearum. I worked for 30 years on anthracnose of strawberry, caused by Colletotrichum acutatum, leather rot, caused by Phytophthora cactorum, and fungal diseases of grapes. I do not have a specific crop responsibility, although I have worked a great deal with fungal diseases of strawberry and other fruit crops, fungal diseases of wheat, and virus diseases of different crops. This basic work has increased our understanding of how fungal spores move within fields and between fields, and has shown how to better control some economically important diseases. In the past, I have worked heavily on determining how rainfall affects splash dispersal of fungal spores. Previously, I developed approaches for assessing the threat of plant pathogens as bioterrorism weapons against U.S. I use mathematics and statistics to characterize disease epidemics in time and space with the goal of determining which biological and physical factors best predict: disease outbreaks, invasion, persistence, and the magnitude of disease spread. My research is focused on understanding and describing plant diseases at the population level and relating disease intensity to crop losses and toxin contamination.

The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholarġ0th Recipient of the Jakob Eriksson Prize in Plant Pathology

Brian McSpadden Gardener, Farewell ReceptionĪmerican Phytopathological Society Award of Distinction.

50th Anniversary of Dept of Plant Pathology.

Professional Master in Plant Health Mgt.

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