William W. Turechek is a research plant pathologist at the USDA-ARS Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, Florida. He received his MS in plant pathology from the University of Georgia and his PhD in plant pathology from The Ohio State University; he then spent 15 months at Oregon State University in Corvallis as a postdoctoral associate. Turechek joined Cornell University in 2001 as an assistant professor in tree fruit and berry pathology, and he joined the USDA-ARS Fruit Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, in 2004. He obtained his current position in Fort Pierce in 2006. Turechek has served as a senior editor for the APS journals
Plant Disease and
Phytopathology, and he currently is serving on the editorial board of
PhytoFrontiers. His area of expertise is plant disease epidemiology with an emphasis on diseases that occur in annual vegetable production and strawberry.
