Courtesy Faculty in Plant Biology (home department: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources) Email: cvillari@uga.edu Lab: 3-528 Warnell School of Forestry Office: 3-522 Warnell School of Forestry Office Phone: 706-542-2535 Education Education: PhD, Crop Science - Plant Protection Curriculum, University of Padua (Italy), 2012 MS. Plant Health Sciences and Technologies, University of Florence (Italy), 2008 BS, Forest and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence (Italy), 2005 Other Information Of note: Area of Speciality: Forest Biology Biotechnology/Molecular Biology/Genetics Health and Protection Research Areas Detail: Interactions among trees, fungal pathogens and insect herbivores;Symbioses between bark beetles and blue-stain fungi; Secondary metabolism of trees Other Affiliations: Website