Johan Leveau (PI)

Professor of Plant Pathology

476 Hutchison Hall, University of California, Davis CA 95616

telephone: (530) 752 5046

e-mail: jleveau (at) ucdavis.edu

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Areas of specialization: Phyllosphere microbiology – Bacterial mycophagy – Microbial metagenomics – Bioreporter technology – Single-cell microbial ecology – Microbial exploitation of phytohormones – Structure and function of plant microbiota (the phytobiome)

 

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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)

PLP 201B: Plant Disease, Fall Quarter, 3 units (50% instructor)

GDB 103: The Microbiome of People, Animals, and Plants, Spring Quarter, 3 units (100% instructor)

 

Past guest lecturer for the following UC Davis courses:

SAS 1: Critical Inquiry, MIB 200A: Biology of Prokaryotes, PLS 174: Microbiology and Safety of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, PLP 298: Advanced Plant Pathology Lab

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, Gillian Bergmann, and Eduardo Ruiz.

Lead Faculty Advisor: for the UC Davis major in Global Disease Biology (GDB) (since 2015)

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