Paul Severns
Assistant Professor of Plant Disease Epidemiology
Areas of expertise
Plant BiologyZoologyCrop and Pasture ProductionMicrobiologyEcologyEvolutionary Biology
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Botany/Plant Biology
Oregon State University, OR, United States (2009)
Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology
Oregon State University, OR, United States (1998)
Awards and Honors
- Student Career Success Influencer Award 2023 (2024)
- UGA Junior Teachng Academy Fellow (2021)
Courses
- PATH 7000: Master's Research (Fall 2025)
- AESC 6100: Applied Agricultural Data Science (Fall 2025)
- PATH 7000: Master's Research (Spring 2026)
- PATH 8160: Special Topics in Plant Pathology (Spring 2026)
- PATH 8310: Epidemiology of Plant Diseases (Spring 2026)
- PATH 8310L: Epidemiology of Plant Diseases (Spring 2026)
- GRSC 7001: GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar (Spring 2026)
- PATH 7000: Master's Research (Summer 2026)
- PATH 7000: Master's Research (Fall 2026)
- AESC 6100: Applied Agricultural Data Science (Fall 2026)
- GRSC 7001: GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar (Fall 2026)
- PATH 4960R: Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research I (Fall 2026)
Scholarly Works
- Cucurbit Leaf Crumple Virus: An Important Pathogen of Cucurbit and Snap Bean Crops, MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY, (2026).
- Integrating host resistance and in-furrow fungicide applications for leaf spot management in peanut, Proceedings American Peanut Research and Education Society, (2026).
- Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum can disseminate similarly from both cotton bacterial blight resistant and susceptible cultivars under field conditions., Plant Dis, (2026).
- Harnessing Allelopathic Autotoxicity for Invasive Plant Management: Knowledge Gaps and Future Research Directions, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, (2026).
- Influence of neighboring peanut genotypes on leaf spot servity and epidemic development in field conditions, Phytopathology, (2026).
Contact
Mailing Address
2315 Miller Plant Sci
120 Carlton St.
Athens, GA 30602
Shipping Address
2315 Miller Plant Sci
120 Carlton St.
Athens, GA 30602
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