Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and State Extension Specialist for Ornamental Plant Pathology
The Ohio State University
Francesca Hand is an Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and State Extension Specialist for Ornamental Plant Pathology at The Ohio State University. Previously, she received a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Florence, Italy and she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California Davis. The purpose of her research and extension program at OSU is to investigate disease epidemiology, biology and ecology of fungal, oomycete and bacterial pathogens, from which she develops detection and control strategies.
