Shunping Ding, Ph.D.

Dr. Ding is an assistant professor of Plant pathology with a joint appointment in the Wine and Viticulture and Horticulture and Crop Science Departments. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences in the School of Life Science, Henan University, China and her M.Phil. in Microbiology in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. She earned a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked on potato early blight and brown spot disease.

Dr. Ding teaches courses that involve plant pathology, grapevine diseases, and plant disease management. Her research interests include studying fungicide resistance in grapevine pathogens, grapevine disease diagnosis and epidemiology, and testing sources of disease resistance in grapes. She is also interested in working to increase the sustainability of wine grape production.