Dr. Florent Trouillas
Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension
Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis
Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Email: flotrouillas@ucanr.edu
Office Phone: (559) 646-6566
PhD, Plant Pathology, 2009, University of California, Davis
Florent is an associate professor of Cooperative Extension at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (UC’s largest off-campus agricultural research facility, located in Parlier, California). He is part of the UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, and specializes in fruit and nut crop pathology. Trouillas completed his Ph.D. at UC Davis before joining the faculty in 2014.
Dr. Renaud Travadon
Assistant Project Scientist
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: rtravadon@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., National Institute for Agricultural Research, Rennes, France,
Renaud joined the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis in 2009 where he started working on the complex of grapevine trunk diseases. His research interests include infection biology, population genetics, plant tolerance to biotic stresses, epidemiology and ecology. In the Trouillas laboratory, Dr. Travadon is elucidating the etiology of a sudden decline of sweet cherry trees recently observed in California, as well as the population biology of a re-emerging canker disease on almond trees caused by Ceratocystis.
Dr. Tawanda Maguvu
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Plant Pathology
Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Email: tmaguvu@ucdavis.edu
PhD Agricultural and Environmental Biology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Tawanda is using whole genome sequence analyses and phylogenomic to describe Pseudomonas species diversity associated with almond and other stone fruits in California.
Sampson Li
Master Student
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: gsli@ucdavis.edu
Sampson works to characterize the biology and epidemiology of fungal canker pathogens associated with sweet cherry
Alejandro Hernandez
PhD Student
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
Email: aihernandez@ucdavis.edu
Alejandro studies Phytophthora crown and root rot associated with pistachio, and works to develop management strategies.
Rosa Jaime Frias
Laboratory Assistant
Department of Plant Pathology
Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Office Phone: (559) 646-6570
Former Lab members
Nicholas Morris
Maria Crespo Palomo
Cassie Carranza
Leslie Holland
Daniel P. Lawrence
Mohamed T. Nouri
Olivia Vu