Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley will start Jan. 2007 at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He will be the new extension plant pathologist
in the Department of Crop Sciences with research and extension
responsibilities on diseases of field crops. Dr. Bradley is currently
an extension plant pathologist at North Dakota State University
(NDSU) in the Department of Plant Pathology where his research
responsibilities include diseases of broadleaf crops. He has been
at NDSU for four and one half years. Prior to NDSU, Dr. Bradley
was a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Idaho
working with soilborne diseases of small grains. He received his
PhD and MS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne in
Plant Pathology, where he worked with soybeans.
Leonor Leandro
Leonor Leandro is a new assistant professor in pathology at the
Department of Plant Pathology at Iowa State University (ISU). Her
research focuses on the biology and epidemiology of fungi that
cause soybean diseases, specifically soilborne pathogens. She has
also studied sudden death syndrome and plans to work with Asian
Soybean Rust. During her postdoc at North Carolina State University,
Dr. Leandro conducted research on fungal ecology in strawberry
root rot management systems. She obtained her PhD in Plant Pathology
at ISU and her MS in Environmental Science from the University
of Nottingham, UK.
Dean Malvick
Dean Malvick is an assistant professor of plant pathology and extension
specialist for the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. His
responsibilities include disease issues facing soybean and corn
production, and he has focused on soybean diseases, especially
soilborne root and stem diseases. Dr. Malvick relocated to
Minnesota from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
the summer of 2005, where he was an assistant professor in the
Department of Crop Sciences for four and one half years and worked
on soybean, corn, and alfalfa diseases. After earning his
PhD and prior to UI, he worked as a Research Pathologist for two
and one half years for a seed company in southern Wisconsin.
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