Education:

• Ph.D. Sciences Agronomiques (avec la Plus Grande Distinction), Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux. BELGIUM. (1983).

• M..Sc. Plant Protection, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. (1979).

• B.Sc. Agriculture and  Ingenieur Agricole (with distinction). American University of Beirut (1977).

Courses Taught:

• AGSC 232 - Principles of Plant Pathology

• AGSC 294 - Applied Plant Protection (shared course)

• AGSC 295 - Pesticides (shared course)

• AGSC 311 - Advanced Principles

• AGSC 323 - Plant Virology

• AGSC 322a - Plant Parasitic Fungi and Bacteria

• AGSC 388b - Integrated Pest Management (course coordinator)

• AGSC 396 - Graduate seminar (Coordinator)

• AGSC 347 - Biological control of crop pests (shared course)

• AGSC 332 - Plant-Pest Interactions (shared course)

Research

Research of Interest

• Integrated pest management, including biocontrol and plant extracts

• Improvement or development of diagnostic techniques for plant pathogens (viruses, phytoplasma),

• Breeding for disease resistance using molecular biology tools: marker assisted selection

• Genetic engineering, transgenic plants based on gene silencing or pathogen derived resistance

• Plant virology.

Selected Publications:

• El-Mohtar C., Atamian H., Dagher R., Abou-Jawdah Y., Salus M., and Maxwell D. (2007). Marker assisted selection of tomato genotypes with I2 gene of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Plant Disease 91: 758-762.

• Eid, S., Abou-Jawdah, Y., El-Mohtar, S., Sobh, H. and Havey, M. (2006). Tolerance in Cucumber to Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus. Plant disease 90: 645-649.

• Abou-Jawdah Y., Sobh H., Cordahi N., Kawtharani H., Nemer G., Maxwell D.P. and Nakhla M.K. (2004). Immunodiagnosis of Prune dwarf virus using antiserum produced to its recombinant coat protein. Journal of Virological Methods 121: 31-38.

• Hourani, H. and Abou-Jawdah, Y. (2003). Immunodiagnosis of cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus using polyclonal antibodies developed against recombinant coat protein. Journal of Plant Pathology 85 (3): 197-204.

• Abou-Jawdah, Y., Karakashian, A., Sobh, H., Martini M. and Lee I.M. (2002). An epidemic of almond witches'-broom in Lebanon: classification and phylogenetic relationship of the associated phytoplasma. Plant Disease 86: 477-484.

• Abou-Jawdah, Y., Sobh, H and Salameh, A. (2002). Antimycotic activities of selected plant flora, growing wild in Lebanon, against phytopathogenic fungi. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 50: 3208-3213.

• Abou-Jawdah, Y., H. Sobh, A. Fayyad, H. Lecoq, B. DelEcolle and J. Trad-Ferre. (2000). Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus – a new threat to cucurbits in Lebanon. Journal of plant Pathology  82 (1): 55-60.

• Abou-Jawdah, Y., H. Sobh, A. Fayyad and S. El-Zammar. (2000). Incidence and management of virus diseases of cucurbits in Lebanon. Crop Protection 19: 217-224.

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