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Brenna J. Aegerter Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable Crops, Plant Pathology
2101 East Earhart Ave, Suite 200
Stockton, CA, 95206-3924
Email: bjaegerter@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 953-6114

Jose L Aguiar
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops and small farms
81-077 Indio Blvd.
Indio, 92201-2552
Email: jlaguiar@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 342-2467

Aziz Baameur
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small Farms, cultivar evaluation, nutrient management, irrigation, specialty crops, cucurbits, oriental vegetables
Email: azbaameur@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (408) 282-3127

Jianlong Bi Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor Entomology
Specialty: Entomology
Email: jbi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831-759-7359

Marita Cantwell
Title: CE Vegetable Specialist
Specialty: Postharvest physiology, handling, and storage of vegetables, including specialty and fresh cut vegetables.
Dept. Plant Sciences MS#3, UC Davis
Davis CA, 95616-8746
Email: micantwell@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7305 (530) 754-6127 (lab)

Michael D Coffey
Title: Professor   Plant Pathologist
Specialty: Phytophthora and Powdery Mildew Diseases and their control: Taxonomy, Systematics, Phylogeny and Molecular Diagnosis of Phytophthora. Powdery mildews: disease resistance, fungicides
Plant Pathology Department, University of California
Riverside, 92521
Email: michael.coffey@ucr.edu
Phone: 951 827-4764

Surendra Dara
Title: Strawberry and Vegetable Crops Advisor
Specialty: Entomology
624 A West Foster Rd
Santa Maria, 93455
Email: skdara@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 805-934-6240

Oleg Daugovish
Title: Strawberry and Vegetable Crop Advisor
Specialty: Ag and Environmental Issues for Veg Crops and Strawberries
Email: odaugovish@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 645-1454

R Michael Davis
Title: CE Plant Pathologist
Specialty: Diseases of vegetable & field crops
Email: rmdavis@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0303

Maria de la Fuente Ph. D.
Title: Farm Advisor San Benito and Santa Clara Counties
Specialty: Mushrooms, compost, specialty vegetables, plant pathology and soil microbiology.
Email: medelafuente@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 637-5346 SBC (408) 282-3131 SCC

Theodore M DeJong
Title: Professor   CE Pomologist-AES   Plant Physiologist-AES
Specialty: Environmental physiology; crop physiology; carbon partitioning and crop modeling; pomology; physiology and management of fruit tree crops; peach rootstock development and physiology; dried plum breeding
Mail stop 2
Davis, 95616
Email: tmdejong@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1843

Robert L Gilbertson
Title: Associate Professor
Specialty: Seed pathology, virology
Email: rlgilbertson@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-3163

Timothy K Hartz
Title: CE Vegetable Crops Specialist
Specialty: Improved management regimes for commercial vegetable production, cultural practices for warm-season vegetable crops
Email: tkhartz@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1738

Junda Jiang
Email: djjiang@ucdavis.edu

Manuel J Jimenez
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small farms, vegetable crops, integrated pest management
4437 S. Laspina St.
Email: mjjimenez@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3316

Steven T Koike
Title: Plant Pathology Farm Advisor
Specialty: Plant pathology research and education for vegetable, fruit and ornamental crops; plant disease diagnostics; food safey research and extension.
Email: stkoike@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7356

Michelle Le Strange
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops, turf & landscape management, weed management (vegetable crops, turf and ornamentals), Master Gardener Program Advisor
4437-B South Laspina St.
Tulare, 93274
Email: mlestrange@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3320

Deb Mathews
Title: CE Specialist and Plant Pathologist
Specialties: Virology, diseases of vegetables and ornamentals
Affiliation: UCR Dept Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Email: dmathews@ucr.edu
Phone: 951-827-3864

Milton E McGiffen Jr
Title: CE Specialist and Plant Physiologist
Specialty: Vegetable Crops, Invasive Species, Weed Science, Sustainable Agriculture, and Alternatives to Methyl Bromide
4101 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: milt@ucr.edu
Phone: (909) 560-0839 (951) 827-5989

Gene Miyao
Title: Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops
Specialty: Processing tomato production.
Email: emmiyao@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 666-8732

Richard H. Molinar M.S.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small farms, vegetable crops, organic farming, insect/weed management, specialty crops, sugar peas, strawberries, eggplant, squash, Asian vegetables such as basil, lemongrass, green beans, long beans, gailon, bittermelons, refugee farmers, Hmong, Lao, fluent in Spanish
Email: rhmolinar@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7555

Eric T. Natwick
Title: Entomology Advisor
Specialty: Entomology, Pest Management
Email: etnatwick@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 352-9474

Joe Nunez
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops
Email: jnunez@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661) 868-6222

Carlos F Quiros
Title: Professor   Geneticist-AES
Specialty: Genetics of breeding of celery and brassicas, evolution of polyploids, molecular cytogenetics
Email: cfquiros@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1734

Richard Smith
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable Crop Production & Weed Science
Email: rifsmith@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7357

Trevor V Suslow
Specialty: Postharvest pathology, Microbial food safety, postharvest transportation
Mann Laboratory Mail Stop 3
Davis, 95616-8780
Email: tvsuslow@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-8313

John T Trumble
Title: Entomologist   Professor
Specialty: Plant compensation for insect herbivory; impact of air and heavy metal pollution on plant-insect interactions; biological and microbial control in sustainable agriculture; chemical ecology
Department of Entomology
Riverside, 92521
Email: john.trumble@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5624

Thomas Turini M.S.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops
Email: taturini@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7157