Full Name
Achala KC
Job Title
Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology
Company
Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Achala KC is an assistant professor at the department of botany and plant pathology at Oregon State University. She is a plant pathologist stationed in OSU's Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center in Central Point. She earned her master's and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from North Dakota State University in Fargo and completed post-doctoral training in tree fruit pathology from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Her research programs at OSU are focused on understanding the epidemiology of tree fruit and wine grape diseases and developing integrated disease management programs. Grapevine red blotch disease and grapevine trunk diseases are her current active research areas under the wine grape disease program.