Genetics Faculty

Only faculty affiliated with ILS are listed on this page. Learn more about Genetics faculty. The Genetics Graduate Coordinator is Michael White (gencoord@uga.edu).

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Jill Anderson

Professor
Genetics

Tessa Andrews

Associate Professor
Genetics

Jeff Bennetzen

Professor
Genetics; Bioinformatics

Douda Bensasson

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Plant Biology

Casey Bergman

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Genetics

Pengpeng Bi

Associate Professor
Genetics

Blake Billmyre

Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Infectious Diseases

Katie Billmyre

Assistant Professor
Genetics

C. Robin Buell

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics
Bioinformatics

Gaelen Burke

Associate Professor
Entomology

Shu-Mei Chang

Professor
Plant Biology

Leigh Anne Clark

Associate Professor
Genetics

Kurt Dahlstrom

Assistant Professor
Microbiology

Kelly Dawe

Distinguished Research Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology

Katrien Devos

Distinguished Research Professor
Bioinformatics; Plant Biology

Diana Downs

Distinguished Research Professor
Microbiology

Kelly Dyer

Professor
Genetics

Arthur Edison

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Genetics

Jonathan Eggenschwiler

Associate Professor
Genetics; Neuroscience

Courtney Ellison

Assistant Professor
Microbiology

David Garfinkel

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Travis Glenn

Professor
Environmental Health Sciences; Bioinformatics; Toxicology

Mary Goll

Associate Professor
Genetics

Brendan Hunt

Associate Professor
Entomology

Jessica Kissinger

Distinguished Research Professor
Bioinformatics; Genetics

James Lauderdale

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Jim Leebens-Mack

Professor
Plant Biology

Zachary Lewis

Professor
Microbiology

Wolfgang Lukowitz

Associate Professor
Plant Biology

Douglas Menke

Professor
Genetics

Ellen Neidle

Professor
Microbiology

Brad Nelms

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology

Andrew Paterson

Regents Professor and Head, Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory
Plant Biology; Genetics; Bioinformatics

Rachel Roberts-Galbraith

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Tania Rozario

Assistant Professor
Genetics

Paul Schliekelman

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics

Bob Schmitz

Professor
Genetics

Mike Strand

Distinguished Research Professor
Entomology

Sweigart, Andrea

Professor
Genetics

C.J. Tsai

Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Bioinformatics; Genetics; Plant Biology

Esther van der Knaap

Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology

Assistant Professor Genetics

Assistant Professor
Genetics

John Wares

Professor
Genetics

White, Michael

Associate Professor
Genetics

Kaixiong Ye

Associate Professor
Genetics; Bioinformatics