Layla Crawford, Ph.D.
Dr. Crawford is a study director, assistant radioactive safety officer, and plant pathologist for Landis International. She joined Landis International in April 2007 after spending a 2-year post-doctoral appointment at the University of Georgia where she coordinated the monitoring of Asian soybean rust for the state of Georgia. Dr. Crawford has designed, managed, and conducted field and greenhouse research studies on a wide variety of foliar and soil-borne fungal diseases of agricultural and ornamental crops. She also has experience in crop maintenance, sampling, disease scouting, fungicide and nematicide evaluations, statistical analysis, and report writing. Dr. Crawford has managed both GLP and non-GLP projects including residue, metabolism, efficacy, plant emergence and vigor, phytotoxicity, and inhalation exposure studies. She also conducts small-scale greenhouse, in vitro, and microplot research studies on-site at Landis International.
Dr. Crawford earned her Ph.D. degree in Plant Pathology from the University of Georgia and received her B.S. in Biology from Georgia Southern University.
