IFAS DIRECTORY
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Dina Liebowitz
Director and Senior Lecturer, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: sustainable agriculture, agroecology, food systems
1207 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611
dinalieb@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1928

CG
Christopher C. Gunter (Chris)
Professor and Chair, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Artificial Intelligence
1253 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611
cc.gunter@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 294-6795

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Shinsuke Agehara
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Gulf Coast REC - Balm
Specialty: Horticulture, consumer
14625 CR 672
Wimauma, FL 33598
sagehara@ufl.edu

Tel: (813) 419-6583

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Ute Albrecht
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Southwest Florida REC - Immokalee
Specialty: citrus, plant physiology
2685 State Road 29 N
Immokalee, FL 34142
ualbrecht@ufl.edu

Tel: (239) 658-3422 Fax: (239) 658-3403
Foreign language: German

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Fernando Alferez
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Southwest Florida REC - Immokalee
Specialty: Citrus Horticulture
2685 State Road 29 N
Immokalee, FL 34142
alferez@ufl.edu

Tel: (239) 658-3426 Fax: (239) 658-3403

KB
Kelly Balmant
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
1207 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
balmant@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1928

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Gilles J. Basset
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty:
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
gbasset@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4808

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Susan K. Boehlein
Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Enzymology, starch biosynthetic pathway, plant biochemistry
1143 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
sboehlei@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-3991 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Nathan S. Boyd
Associate Center Director and Professor, Ph.D.
Gulf Coast REC - Balm
Specialty: Weed Management and Artificial Intelligence
14625 CR 672
Wimauma, FL 33598-6101
nsboyd@ufl.edu

Tel: (813) 419-6613

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Jeffrey K. Brecht (Jeff)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Postharvest Physiology
1217 Fifield
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
jkbrecht@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4778 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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JC
Jose X. Chaparro
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Fruit tree breeding and genetics
Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
jaguey58@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4821 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Carlene A. Chase
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Weed Physiology
1245 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
cachase@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4770 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Christine D. Chase (Chris)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Genetics
2215 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
cdchase@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4862 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Jonathan H. Crane
Professor and Associate Center Director, Ph.D.
Tropical REC - Homestead
Specialty: Tropical Fruit Production and Physiology
18905 SW 280th Street
Homestead, FL 33031
jhcr@ufl.edu

Tel: (786) 217-9271 Fax: (305) 246-7003

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Peter J. Dittmar
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Weed Science, Vegetable crops, Fruit crops
1233 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
pdittmar@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4771 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Vicente J. Febres
Research Assistant Scientist, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Citrus, Plant pathology, Plant Molecular Biology
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
vjf@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4799 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Robert J. Ferl (Rob)
Director and Professor, Ph.D.
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnical Research - ICBR
Specialty: Molecular Biology
152 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex
PO Box 103622
Gainesville, FL 32610-3622
robferl@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-8030 Fax: (352) 273-8070

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Felipe Ferrao
Research Assistant Scientist, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Blueberry Breeding, Statistical, Quantitative Genetics, Genomics
1253 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
lferrao@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1928

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Kevin M. Folta
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Photomorphogenesis, Genomics, Science Communication
Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
kfolta@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4812 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Frederick G. Gmitter
Professor, Ph.D.
Citrus REC - Lake Alfred
Specialty: Citrus Genetics and Breeding
700 Experiment Station Rd
Lake Alfred, FL 33850-2299
fgmitter@ufl.edu

Tel: (863) 956-8878 ext. 18878 Fax: (863) 956-4631

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Jude W. Grosser
Professor, Ph.D.
Citrus REC - Lake Alfred
Specialty: Plant Cell Genetics
700 Experiment Station Rd
Lake Alfred, FL 33850-2299
jgrosser@ufl.edu

Tel: (863) 956-8680 ext. 18680 Fax: (863) 956-4631

JG
Jiahn-Chou Guan (Guan)
Research Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Strigolactone biology
R315 CGRC, 2033 Mowry Road
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611
guanjc@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-8118

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Jeffery L. Gustin
Research Assistant Scientist, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Maize, Machine Vision
1301 Fifield Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
jgustin@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-7574

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Andrew D. Hanson
Eminent Scholar, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Metabolic biochemistry & engineering, Synthetic biology
2143 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
adha@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4856 Fax: (352) 392-5653
Foreign language: French, Spanish

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Ramdas Kanissery
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Southwest Florida REC - Immokalee
Specialty: Weed Science
2685 State Road 29 N
Immokalee, FL 34142
rkanissery@ufl.edu

Tel: (239) 658-3455 Fax: (239) 658-3403

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Jeongim Kim
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Plant secondary metabolism, plant hormones, medicinal plants
2550 Hull Rd
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
jkim6@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4779

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Harry J. Klee
Eminent Scholar, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Biology
Bldg 885
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
hjklee@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-8249 Fax: (352) 846-2063

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Karen E. Koch
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Biology
2147 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
kekoch@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4833 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Xiaoying Li
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Tropical REC - Homestead
Specialty: Horticulture/Vegetable
18905 SW 280 ST
Homestead, FL 33031
xiaoying.li@ufl.edu

Tel: (786) 217-9260

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Guodong Liu (David)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Crop Nutrition
1229 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
guodong@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4814 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Tie Liu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Postharvest genomics, functional genomics, systems biology
1213 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
tieliu@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 846-2638

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Donald R. McCarty (Don)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Genetics
2237 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
drm@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4846 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Amethyst Merchant
Lecturer, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
1253 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
amethyst@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1928

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Geoffrey Meru
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Tropical REC - Homestead
18905 SW 280th ST
Homestead, FL 33030
gmeru@ufl.edu

Tel: (786) 217-9287 Fax: (305) 246-7003

CM
Charlie Messina
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Predictive breeding, crop modeling physiology
1253 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
cmessina@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1928
Foreign language: English, Spanish

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Patricio Munoz
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: blueberry breeder
2211 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
p.munoz@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4837 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Gerardo Nunez
Lecturer, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Berry crop physiology and nutrition, horticulture education
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
g.nunez@ufl.edu

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Anna-Lisa Paul
Research Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Plant Molecular Genetics, Space Biology
2104 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
alp@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4855 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Balasubramanian Rathinasabapathi (Saba)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Plant Physiology
2231 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
brath@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4847 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Marcio F. Ribeiro De Resende
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Corn breeding, quantitative genetics, genomics bioinformatics
2135 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
mresende@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4772

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Mark A. Ritenour
Professor, Ph.D.
Indian River REC - Ft. Pierce
Specialty: Postharvest
2199 S Rock Rd
Fort Pierce, FL 34945-3138
ritenour@ufl.edu

Tel: (772) 772-7359 Fax: (772) 468-5668

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Steven A. Sargent (Steve)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Postharvest Technology for Fresh Fruits/Vegetables
1211 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
sasa@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4780
Foreign language: Portuguese (Brazilian); Spanish (intermediate)

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Ali Sarkhosh
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Tree Fruit, Viticulture
2115 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
sarkhosha@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4788

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Bruce A. Schaffer
Professor, Ph.D.
Tropical REC - Homestead
Specialty: Ecophysiology of Subtropical and Tropical Plants
18905 SW 280th Street
Homestead, FL 33031
bas56@ufl.edu

Tel: (786) 217-9265 Fax: (305) 246-7003

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Andrew M. Settles (Mark)
Director and Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Plant Genetics
Bldg. 885
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
settles@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-7571 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Muhammad A. Shahid
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
North Florida REC - Quincy
Specialty: Horticulture
155 Research Road
Quincy, FL 32351
mshahid@ufl.edu

Tel: (850) 875-7150 Fax: (352) 846-6617

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Eric H. Simonne
Professor and District Director, Ph.D.
Office of District Directors - Northeast
Specialty: Vegetable Production
2142 Shealy Dr. Rm 205
PO Box 110220
Gainesville, FL 32611-0220
esimonne@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 392-1781 Fax: (352) 394-3544
Foreign language: French, Spanish

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Masaharu Suzuki (Masa)
Research Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Genetics Seed Biology
1117 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
masaharu@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4854 Fax: (352) 392-5653

DT
Denise M. Tieman
Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Fruit flavor
Bldg 885
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
dtieman@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 213-0348

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Danielle D. Treadwell
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: vegetable production, organic farming, cover crops
Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
ddtreadw@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4775 Fax: (352) 846-0909

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Pavlos Tsouvaltzis
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Southwest Florida REC - Immokalee
Specialty: Vegetable Horticulture
2685 State Road 29 N
Immokalee, FL 34142
ptsouv@ufl.edu

Tel: (239) 658-3410 Fax: (239) 658-3403

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Carlos E. Vallejos (Eduardo)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Molecular Biology & Physiology
2243 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
vallejos@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4845 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Tripti Vashisth
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Citrus REC - Lake Alfred
Specialty: Citrus horticulture and production
700 Experiment Station Road
Lake Alfred, FL 33850
tvashisth@ufl.edu

Tel: (863) 956-8846 Fax: (863) 956-4631

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Christopher I. Vincent
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Citrus REC - Lake Alfred
Specialty: Citrus/tree physiology

Lake Alfred, FL 33850
civince@ufl.edu

Tel: (863) 956-8757 Fax: (863) 956-4631

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Cătălin Voiniciuc
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Plant Synthetic Biology, Cell Wall Glycoengineering
2432 Hull Road, Room 0003B
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
cvoiniciuc@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4782
Foreign language: Romanian, French, German

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Vance M. Whitaker
Professor, Ph.D.
Gulf Coast REC - Balm
Specialty: Strawberry Breeding
14625 CR 672
Wimauma, FL 33598
vwhitaker@ufl.edu

Tel: (813) 419-6608

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Jeffrey G. Williamson (Jeff)
Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Deciduous Fruit Industry
2113 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
jgrw@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4823 Fax: (352) 392-5653

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Flavia Zambon
Assistant Professor
Indian River REC - Ft. Pierce
2199 S. Rock Road
Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
f.zambon@ufl.edu

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Xin Zhao
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Vegetable Production, Organic Agriculture, Protected Culture
1301 Filield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
zxin@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4773 Fax: (352) 392-6479

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Mingqi Zhou
Research Assistant Scientist, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Space Biology and Biotechnology
Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
mqzhou@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4853
Foreign language: Chinese

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Lincoln Zotarelli
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Horticultural Sciences
Specialty: Vegetable Production
1241 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611-0690
lzota@ufl.edu

Tel: (352) 273-4949 Fax: (352) 392-5653
Foreign language: Portuguese

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