Tom Hsiang, PhD

Dr. Tom Hsiang is a professor in the School of Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, specializing in fungal diseases of plants. Before arriving in Guelph he worked on tree and landscape plant diseases in Washington State, US, where he obtained his Ph.D. (University of Washington) and conducted post-doctoral studies (Washington State University) both in Forest Pathology. He is from Vancouver, BC and obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in Forest Biology and Pathology at the University of British Columbia. His current teaching and research involve diseases of trees and turfgrasses, particularly biology and genomics of fungal pathogens as well as disease management. He has done extensive work with snow molds of grasses and fungicide resistance.