Paul Vincelli
Department of Plant Pathology
Extension Professor
Provost's Distinguished Service Professor
Specializes In:
- Nucleic acid-based detection of plant pathogens
- Advanced concepts in fungicides, including resistance
- Agricultural Sustainability
- Risks and Benefits of Genetically Engineered Crops
- Climate Change and Agriculture
- Etiology and management of diseases of maize and forages
- Plant Disease Epidemiology
International Experience:
- U.S. Scholar to Nicaragua, Fulbright Program, 2014
- U.S. Specialist to Uruguay, Fulbright Program, 2013
- U.S. Scholar to Uruguay, Fulbright Program, 2005
- Botanist, U.S. Peace Corp, Colombia and Nicaragua, 1977-1980
- Competency with spoken and written Spanish
Selected Awards:
- Recipient, M. Whiteker Award for Excellence in Extension, UK College of Agriculture, 2012
- Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching, UK, 2011
- Great Teacher Award, UK Alumni Association, 2011
- Excellence in Teaching Award, American Phtopathology Society, 2007
- Master Teacher Award, Gamma Signma Delta, Kentucky Chapter, 2004
Other:
- Delivered 23 invited scientific talks ans seminars internationally, mostly in Latin America
- Offered hands-on workshops in molecular detection of plant pathogens in Mexico, Nicaragua, Barbados, and Puerto Rico
- Offered one graduate course and several guest lectures in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico
- Thirty-nine refereed research papers; 25 as first author, one in Spanish
- Over 250 invited presentations regionally, nationally, and internationally