Inga Meadows, Ph.D.

Inga is a Research Plant Pathologist located at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories in Charlotte, NC. Her interests focus on plant health management particularly dealing with fungal and bacterial pathogens of woody trees and shrubs. Inga also provides technical support to Bartlett's Arborist Representatives and Plant Health Care Specialists in the southeastern United States. Inga is a member of the American Phytopathological Society and the Mycological Society of America.

Inga earned her B.S. in Botany from Oregon State University where she was first introduced to the impacts of forest pathogens as an undergraduate student working in a lab that focused on Swiss needle cast of Douglas fir, sudden oak death, and Port Orford Cedar root disease. She continued her interest in forest pathology earning her M.S. in Plant & Environmental Sciences at Clemson University studying the effects of fire and fire surrogates on forest pathogens in the forests of southern Appalachia. Inga then moved to New Zealand working as a scientist at the Plant Health and Environment Laboratory in Auckland for the Ministry for Primary Industries where she was responsible for providing diagnostics and science-based information on plant pathogens entering the country on plants, produce, and plant products. She then returned stateside to work as an Extension Plant Pathologist for Vegetables and Herbaceous Ornamentals at North Carolina State University. While working, Inga earned her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology which was focused on soil-borne disease occurrence and management in greenhouse floriculture crops in North Carolina.