D. Timothy C. Paulitz

CURRICULUM VITAE

University of California, Riverside                              1984                 Ph. D.

      Major:  Plant Pathology

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona       1979                B.S

             Major: Botany  Minor: Plant Pathology

Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS Root Disease and Biological Control Research Unit, Pullman, WA  June 2000-present

Associate Professor, Dept. Plant Science, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada,  June 1994-June 2000.

      Assistant Professor, Dept. Plant Science, Macdonald Campus of McGill                                                    University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada,  Dec. 1989-April 1994.

        Postdoctoral Research Associate, USDA-ARS Horticultural Research Laboratory,      Corvallis, Oregon .  Sept. 1987- Nov. 1989.

Visiting assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  Sept. 1984-Sept. 1987.

Biological control of soilborne pathogens in greenhouse and horticulture crops. Root diseases of wheat and barley, including Pythium, Fusarium, and Rhizoctonia. Spatial analysis of soilborne pathogens. Epidemiology of Fusarium head blight of wheat, including disease gradients and spore dispersal. Mechanisms of biological control, including induced resistance and antibiosis by fluorescent pseudomonads. 

Published over 60 refereed papers and 10 book chapters.

From 1990-2000, I supervised 18 MSc students, 3 PhD students, and 5 postdoctoral researchers

Past associate and senior editor of Phytopathology, and section editor of Plant and Soil.  Present section editor of Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology