Mehdi Kabbage is a research group leader and professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an engineering degree from l’Ecole d’Ingenieurs de Purpan in Toulouse, France, and MS and PhD from Kansas State University, focusing on plant-fungal interactions. His research program aims to gain a better understanding of necrotrophic fungal pathogenesis on various crops, including the role of programmed cell death (PCD) in shaping disease outcomes.