Amanda Gevens

Amanda Gevens, Ph.D., is the Department Chair of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 2009. Her expertise is in the ecology and management of diseases of potato, vegetable, hops, and mint crops. She has expertise on late blight, a serious oomycete disease of potato and tomato crops, fungicide resistance management, biopesticide efficacy, and pathogen diversity in agricultural ecosystems. She is affiliated with Cooperative Extension, and in that role works closely with growers and processors along with home gardeners of organic and conventional systems to solve disease management problems.