Professor
University of Georgia
Tifton, Georgia, United States
Dr. Brenneman was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and received his B.S. in Biology from Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) and his Ph. D. in Plant Pathology from Virginia Tech. He joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in 1986 and currently serves as professor of plant pathology with responsibilities for research and extension programming on peanuts and pecans, two of the major crops in Georgia. He also teaches Introductory Plant Pathology and has mentored numerous graduate students and post-docs. His research program has been broad, including discovery of pecan truffles in Georgia, but his main focus has always been on developing improved, more cost-efficient methods of disease control for peanut and pecan farmers. He has helped develop most of the fungicides currently used by peanut farmers today, and co-released 11 peanut cultivars from collaborative work with Drs. Branch, Holbrook, and Brown. He has published over 160 refereed articles, and several hundred abstracts. He is a Fellow and past-president of the American Peanut Research and Education Society (APRES), and a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and was named the 2016 D. W. Brooks award winner for excellence in research by the UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Science.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM HST