{"id":127,"date":"2019-11-03T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:33:14","slug":"melissa-g-mitchum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/melissa-g-mitchum\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa G. Mitchum, Barry Bustillo Distinguished                             Professor of Plant Nematology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2019\/12\/melissa100x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plantpath.caes.uga.edu\/people\/faculty\/melissa-mitchum.html\">Department of&nbsp; Plant Pathology<\/a><br><span class=\"affiliation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caes.uga.edu\/about\/personnel\/person.html?pk_id=20899&amp;name=Melissa%20G%20Mitchum\">Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics (IPBGG)<\/a><br>Center for Applied Genetic Technologies (CAGT)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=kx1OIKcAAAAJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2019\/11\/google-scholar-logo-smer2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"61\" height=\"61\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Background<\/strong><br>Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental, Cell, and Molecular Biology Group, Duke University, 2003<br>Ph.D. Plant Pathology, minor Biotechnology, North Carolina State University, 2001<br>M.S. Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, 1995<br>B.S. Biology, University of Puget Sound, 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional and Academic Appointments<\/strong><br>Barry Bustillo Distinguished Professor of Plant Nematology, 2025 to present <br>Department of Plant Pathology &amp; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genomics, University of Georgia, 2019-2025<br>MSMC Endowed Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2018-2019<br>Founder and Director, SCN Diagnostics, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2016-2019<br>Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2017-2018<br>Associate Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2010-2017<br>Assistant Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2003-2010<br>Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental, Cell, and Molecular Biology Group, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2001-2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of&nbsp; Plant PathologyInstitute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics (IPBGG)Center for Applied Genetic Technologies (CAGT) Google Scholar Profile Academic BackgroundPostdoctoral Fellow, Developmental, Cell, and Molecular Biology Group, Duke University, 2003Ph.D. Plant Pathology, minor Biotechnology, North Carolina State University, 2001M.S. Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, 1995B.S. Biology, University of Puget Sound, 1993 Professional and Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}