Matt Kasson

Matt Kasson has spent his career studying canker diseases of trees and woody plants, fungus-arthropod interactions, and fungal biological control of invasive plants, pests, and pathogens while teaching courses in forest pest management and general plant pathology. He now serves as Associate Professor of Forest Pathology and Mycology at West Virginia University in Morgantown where he has been on the faculty since 2014. From 2017-2022, he served as Director of The International Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM), which was housed at WVU from 1990-2022. A longtime member of the American Phytopathological Society, Matt has served as the Potomac Division President, Chair and Potomac Division Representative for Division Forum, Chair and member of the Forest Pathology Committee, and member of the Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Academic Unit Leaders Forum.