Professor of Plant Pathology
476 Hutchison Hall, University of California, Davis CA 95616
telephone: (530) 752 5046
e-mail: jleveau (at) ucdavis.edu
Areas of specialization: Phyllosphere microbiology – Bacterial mycophagy – Bioreporter technology – Single-cell microbial ecology – Microbial exploitation of phytohormones – Structure and function of plant microbiota (the phytobiome) – Biocontrol of plant disease
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
07/17-present – Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Department of Plant Pathology, Davis, CA, USA
07/12-06/17 – Associate Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Department of Plant Pathology, Davis, CA, USA
07/08-06/12 – Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Department of Plant Pathology, Davis, CA, USA
02/02-10/15 – Senior scientist
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Department of (Terrestrial) Microbial Ecology, Heteren (now Wageningen), The Netherlands website
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
| INSTITUTION AND LOCATION | DEGREE | YEAR(S) | AREA |
| University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA | postdoc | 1998-2002 | Plant microbiology |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland | Ph.D. | 1993-1998 | Microbiology |
| Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands | M.Sc. | 1988-1992 | Biology |
| Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands | B.Sc. | 1987-1988 | Biology |
TEACHING
Instructor of record for the following UC Davis courses:
SAS 13: Disease and Society, Fall Quarter, 3 units (100% instructor)
GDB 103: The Microbiome of People, Animals, and Plants, Spring Quarter, 3 units (100% instructor)
[PLP 201B: Plant Disease, Fall Quarter, 3 units (50% instructor)]
Supervisor: of past and present PhD students: Sachie Höppener-Ogawa (2008), Francesca Mela (2011), Mitja Remus-Emsermann (2012), Nilesh Maharaj (2016), Isaac Greenhut (2016), Emily Rustad (2018), Sandra Mosquera (2018), Lorena Rangel (2019), Hung Doan (2019), Peter Henry (2019), Tyler Laird (2024), Gillian Bergmann (2025), Eduardo Ruiz, Aly Rasmussen, and Mira Conyers.
Lead Faculty Advisor: for the UC Davis major in Global Disease Biology (GDB) (since 2015)