Faculty research profiles are listed below grouped by research areas. You will learn about the primary focus of each faculty's research program and are encouraged to contact them if you are interested in collaboration or graduate studies. Visit their faculty page for more details about their research, teaching, and publications.

Sustainable Horticulture

Plant-Environment Interactions

Landscape Systems and Design/Landscape Architecture

Controlled Environment Agriculture

Sustainable Horticulture

 

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Ashley Adair

Mailing Address:
Ashley Adair
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Organic Agriculture

  • Organic agriculture (horticultural crops and agronomic crops)
  • Organic certification
  • Cover crops
  • Extension education

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Dr. Moriah Bilenky

Mailing Address:
Dr. Moriah Bilenky
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Sustainable Vegetable Cropping Systems

  • Sustainable Horticulture
  • Sustainable vegetable production
  • Organic agriculture
  • Cover crops
  • Crop rotation

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Kyle Daniel

Mailing Address:
Kyle Daniel
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Commercial Landscape and Nursery Crops

  • Landscaping
  • Trees/Shrubs
  • Nursery Production
  • Weed Control
  • Sustainable Landscapes
  • Ornamental Plants
  • Sustainable Production of Landscape Plants
  • Landscape Maintenance
  • Extension
  • Green Industry Education
  • Tree Roots
  • Green Industry
  • Response of Landscape Plants to Climate Change
  • Urban Plants
  • Native Plants
  • Invasive Plants

As a Departmental Ombudsperson, I am happy to engage with undergraduate students about anything, but especially about issues or events, personal or academic, that have adversely affected studies or ability to focus on academics. All interactions are confidential. Suggestions intended to be helpful may be made, but are not required, and are non-binding. Sometimes just having someone to talk to who will listen and who is supportive is enough!

Dr. Wenjing Guan

Dr. Wenjing Guan

Mailing Address:
Dr. Wenjing Guan
Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center
4369 N. Purdue Rd.
Vincennes, IN 47591

Area of Specialization: Commercial Vegetable and Melon Production & Vegetable Grafting

  • Commercial fruit and vegetable production
  • High tunnel
  • Pest management
  • Local food
  • Urban farming
  • Small farm

Steve Hallett

Dr. Steve G. Hallett

Mailing Address:
Dr. Steve Hallett
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: SMALL FARM SUSTAINABILITY, WEED SCIENCE

  • Undergraduate teaching: SFS program
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Diversity & Food Justice
  • Purdue Student Farm
  • Environmental writing

Dr. Peter Hirst

Dr. Peter Hirst


Mailing Address:
Dr. Peter Hirst
Purdue University
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Pomology

Dr. Lori Hoagland

Dr. Lori Hoagland

Mailing Address:
Lori Hoagland
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Agroecology, soil nutrient and heavy metal cycling, pathogen biocontrol, food quality, and safety

  • Urban agriculture
  • Soil health
  • Organic vegetable production
  • Microbiomes

Petrus Langenhoven

Petrus Langenhoven

Mailing Address:
Petrus Langenhoven
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURE AND HYDROPONIC CROP PRODUCTION

  • Vegetable production
  • Open field production
  • High tunnel production
  • Hydroponics
  • Small farms

Liz Maynard

Liz Maynard

Mailing Address:
Liz Maynard
Purdue Horticulture
1101 Glendale Boulevard, Suite 101A
Valparaiso, IN 46383
Ph: 219-548-3674

Area of Specialization: Vegetable Production

  • Vegetable farming – field and high tunnel production, research
  • Vegetable farming – Extension, outreach
  • NW Indiana

Stephen Meyers

Stephen Meyers

Mailing Address:
Stephen Meyers
625 Agriculture Mall Dr
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Weed management in specialty crops

  • Hort crops weeds
  • Weed-crop interactions
  • Weed ecology
  • Production horticulture
  • Integrated pest management (IPM)

Dr. Kathryn Orvis

Dr. Kathryn Orvis

Mailing Address:
Kathryn Orvis
625 Agriculture Mall Dr
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Horticulture/Youth Education

  • Using plants for teaching
  • STEM education
  • Youth gardening
  • Extension education
  • Plant science education
  • Urban agriculture

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Miranda Purcell

Mailing Address:
Miranda Purcell
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Viticulture

  • Wine grapes
  • Table grapes
  • Vineyards

Ariana P. Torres

Ariana P. Torres

Mailing Address:
Ariana P. Torres
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Specialty Crops Marketing, with the end of promoting economic sustainability for the Horticulture Industry.

  • Consumer preferences for foods/plants
  • Economic feasibility of horticultural technologies
  • Marketing and market access
  • Social media marketing

Plant-Environment Interactions

Cale Bigelow

Dr. Cale Bigelow

Mailing Address:
Dr. Cale Bigelow
Purdue University
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Turf Science, Ecology, Nutrition and Management

  • Plant Sciences
  • Urban soils
  • Turf science
  • Golf courses and athletic fields
  • Lawns
  • Urban sustainability

Ray Bressan

Ray Bressan

Area of Specialization: Stress Physiology

Avtar Handa

Dr. Avtar Handa


Mailing Address:
Dr. Avtar Handa
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Postharvest and Molecular Biology

  • Tomato
  • Salt stress
  • RNAseq transcriptome analyses
  • Transgenic genotype comparison

Dr. Lori Hoagland

Dr. Lori Hoagland

Mailing Address:
Lori Hoagland
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Agroecology, soil nutrient and heavy metal cycling, pathogen biocontrol, food quality, and safety

  • Urban agriculture
  • Soil health
  • Organic vegetable production
  • Microbiomes

Ying Li

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Ying Li
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Histone modification; Environmental responses; Systems Biology; Plant Genetics

  • Plant genetics/molecular genomics

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Michael Mickelbart

Mailing Address:
Michael Mickelbart
915 W. State St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Plant environmental acclimation

  • Drought tolerance
  • Plant physiology
  • Water-use efficiency
  • Plant development

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Dr. Aaron Patton

Mailing Address:
Dr. Aaron Patton
Purdue Turf Program
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Turfgrass Science and Turfgrass Weed Science

K.G. Raghothama

K.G. Raghothama

Mailing Address:
K. G. Raghothama
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Molecular Biology of Plant Nutrition

  • Tropical horticulture
  • International horticulture
  • Plant nutrition

Kranthi Varala

Kranthi Varala

Mailing Address:
Kranthi Varala
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Molecular basis and regulation of plant abiotic stress tolerance

Josh Widhalm

Josh Widhalm

Mailing Address:
Joshua Widhalm
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Plant natural product metabolism

  • Plant biology
  • Metabolism
  • Functional genomics
  • Biotechnology
  • Synthetic biology

Landscape Systems and Design/Landscape Architecture

 

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David Barbarash

Dave Barbarash
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Yiwei Huang

Yiwei Huang

 huan1655@purdue.edu
 Urban EXP, Dr. Yiwei Huang's Lab Site
 Link to Profile Page

Mailing Address:
Yiwei Huang
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Therapeutic and Edible Gardens for Urban Underrepresented Communities and Public Perception of Sustainable Outdoor Design

  • Age factors (children and senior) and environment needs
  • Green infrastructure and stormwater management
  • Therapeutic landscape

Aaron W. Thompson

Aaron W. Thompson

Mailing Address:
Aaron W. Thompson
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 479077

Area of Specialization: Land Use Planning and Natural Resource Management

  • Environmental design
  • Landscape planning
  • Public-sector jobs (i.e. National Park Service)
  • Community engagement

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Paul Siciliano

Mailing Address:
Paul Siciliano
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: History & Theory of Landscape Architecture

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Planting Design (eco-connected landscapes)
  • Landscape Plant Materials
  • Public Gardens

Controlled Environment Agriculture

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Celina Gómez

Mailing Address:
Celina Gómez
625 Agriculture Mall Dr
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Controlled Environment Agriculture

  • Vertical farming
  • Hydroponics,
  • Vegetable gardening
  • Indoor propagation

Dr. Wenjing Guan

Dr. Wenjing Guan

Mailing Address:
Dr. Wenjing Guan
Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center
4369 N. Purdue Rd.
Vincennes, IN 47591

Area of Specialization: Commercial Vegetable and Melon Production & Vegetable Grafting

  • Commercial fruit and vegetable production
  • High tunnel
  • Pest management
  • Local food
  • Urban farming
  • Small farm

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Dr. Cary Mitchell

Mailing Address:
Dr. Cary Mitchell
Purdue University
625 Agriculture Mall Dr.
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Plant Physiology & Controlled Environment Agriculture

As a Departmental Ombudsperson, I am happy to engage with undergraduate students about anything, but especially about issues or events, personal or academic, that have adversely affected studies or ability to focus on academics. All interactions are confidential. Suggestions intended to be helpful may be made, but are not required, and are non-binding. Sometimes just having someone to talk to who will listen and who is supportive is enough!

Krishna Nemali

Krishna Nemali

Mailing Address:
Krishna Nemali
625 Agriculture Mall Dr
West Lafayette, IN 47907

Area of Specialization: Develop new and affordable technologies that improve sustainability (i.e., reduce input waste, minimize environmental impact, and increase profits) in controlled environment agriculture.

  • Controlled Environment Agriculture
  • Hydroponics
  • Indoor/Vertical Farming
  • Home Hydroponics
  • Nutritional Quality
  • Food Safety
  • Outreach and Engagement
  • Greenhouse Production
  • Protected Horticulture
  • Automation and Sensors
  • Digital Phenotyping
  • Smart Sensors