About Me
Amanda Gevens is Department Chair and Professor, as well as Extension Plant Pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gevens develops integrated and innovative disease management programs for potato and vegetable crops during production and post-harvest. She addresses many fundamental disease questions with research programming in the focus areas of pathogen ecology and management. Gevens has a particular interest in the study of oomycete vegetable pathogens, such as Phytophthora infestans and P. capsici. She organizes, contributes to, and edits a weekly vegetable crop updates newsletter through the University of Wisconsin Extension which has become highly sought after for in-season production guidance especially for disease and insect control. She earned her BS in Biology from Muhlenberg College in PA, her MS from Purdue University, and her PhD from Michigan State University.
