Biotechnology and Genomics

John I. Yoder

• Professor
• Emeriti

Plant-plant interactions, plant molecular genetics, parasitic weeds

• 530-752-1741
• 530-902-4150
• jiyoder@ucdavis.edu
• Website
• Parasitic Plant Genome Project
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101 ASMUNDSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Gail Taylor

• Professor and Department Chair, Department of Plant Sciences
• Faculty
• Department Chair
• Plant Sciences Executive Committee - Chair

Plant adaptation to a changing climate, genetics and genomics of leafy salad crops, non-food woody biomass crops for bioenergy. Sustainability, ecosystem services, plants and the Sustainable Development Goals.

• 530-752-9165
• 530-902-6013
• gtaylor@ucdavis.edu
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• Big Ideas - Smart Farm
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1210 PES
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Venkatesan Sundaresan

• Professor
• Faculty

Plant reproduction: Embryo sac development (Arabidopsis and Rice); Functional genomics: small RNAs, microbiomes (Rice)

• 530-754-9677
• sundar@ucdavis.edu
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2133 LSA
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Dina Ann St. Clair

• Professor Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Faculty

Plant breeding, genetics and genomics of quantitative traits; quantitative genetics; use of wild species in crop and germplasm improvement; QTL introgression; marker-assisted selection and genomics in breeding.

• 530-752-1740
• dastclair@ucdavis.edu
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114 ASMUNDSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Daniel E. Runcie

• Assistant Professor
• Faculty

Computational and statistical plant biology, crop and gene network modeling, quantitative and evolutionary genomics

• 530-746-8829
• deruncie@ucdavis.edu
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278 Robbins
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Dan E. Parfitt

• Pomologist
• Emeriti

Genetics of fruit crops - genetic diversity, germplasm use, pistachio breeding

• 530-752-7031
• deparfitt@ucdavis.edu
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2025 WICKSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

David Neale

• Distinguished Professor
• Emeriti

My primary research interest is in the discovery and understanding of the function of genes in forest trees, especially those controlling complex traits

• dbneale@ucdavis.edu
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UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Richard W. Michelmore

• Distinguished Professor and Director of the Genome Center
• Faculty

Comparative functional genomics of disease resistance, lettuce genomics and breeding

• 530-752-1729
• rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu
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4311 GBSF
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Maeli Melotto

• Associate Professor
• Faculty
• Plant Sciences Executive Committee - Agricultural Plant Biology

Area of expertise: Biology of plant-microbe interactions, plant defenses against human and plant pathogens, stomatal immunity, bacterial pathogenesis

• 530-752-1747
• melotto@ucdavis.edu
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104 MANN LAB
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

David James Mackill

• Adjunct Faculty

• 530-752-4940
• djmackill@ucdavis.edu
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2140 PES
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616