People Type: Staff

Ben is a Researcher in the Vegetable Entomology lab in the Department of Entomology, and works part time for Dr. Gevens and the Vegetable Pathology lab by managing this website and developing and maintaining decision support tools.

As an assistant researcher in Gevens Vegetable Pathology lab, my work has been focusing on potato late blight, one of the most devastating plant diseases in the world. My recent research work is to collect and genotype Phytophthora infestans isolates, which is the pathogen causing late blight on potatoes and tomatoes. Different P.infestans isolates migrate …