Ann C. Cobb
Research Support Specialist I

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
630 West North Street, Barton Lab
Geneva, NY 14456

PHONE:315-787-2376
FAX: 315-787-2389

E-mail: acc3@cornell.edu

Dillard lab website:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/faculty/dillard

B.S. 1971 Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

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Addresses critical disease management issues of vegetables including both applied and extension activities. Overall program efforts concentrate on the biology, etiology, epidemiology, and control of fungal and bacterial diseases of vegetable crops, and dissemination of integrated control strategies to the vegetable industry.

Awards
Employee of the Year - 2002, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station

Professional Organizations
American Phytopathological Society

Invited Seminars
Oregon State University, April 5, 2005. Life without Ronilan, been there, done that. Willamette Valley Bean Mold Task Force, Albany, Oregon April 6, 2005 Life without    Ronilan, been there, done that (with different emphasis).

Research and Extention Areas
Biology, ecology, and management of fungal and bacterial pathogens of vegetable crops
Epidemiology of foliar pathogens
Sustainable disease management strategies
Disease management in transitional and organic cropping systems
Control of pathogens in greenhouse vegetable crops
Specializing in the following genera of pathogenic fungi: Sclerotinia, Botrytis, Colletotrichum,    Puccinia, Alternaria

International Experience
Scientific Exchange visit to the People’s Republic of China July 6-16, 2000. Presented seminars and exchanged ideas with scientists under the auspices of Shenyang University scientists studying biological control of vegetable pathogens and sustainable vegetable production practices.