Bin Wu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Horticulture, Texas A&M University
• M.S. Cell Biology/ Landscape & Ornamental Horticulture, Sichuan Normal University/ Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry
• B.Eng. Biological Engineering, Panzhihua University, China

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Auburn University, 2025 – Present
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, 2022 – 2025

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Alabama Nursery and Landscape Association
• International Camellia Society
• Agriculture Honor Society, Gamma Sigma Delta
• International Plant Propagators’ Society- Southern Region of North America (IPPS-Southern Region of NA)
• American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS)
• Southern Region American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS-Southern Region)
• Texas Nursery & Landscape Association (TNLA)

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

1) National Level

• ASHS PhD Student Scholars Award (Aug 2022)
• Norman F. Childers Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the 2022 Annual Meeting of ASHS-Southern Region in New Orleans, LA (Feb 2022)
• 1st Place in Charlie Parkerson Student Research Competition at the 2021 Annual Meeting of IPPS-Southern Region of NA in Mobile, AL (Oct 2021)
• 2nd Place in 2021 Paul Thomas Pi Alpha Xi Digital Photo contest for Horticulture in Production (Aug 2021)

2) State Level

• 1st Place in Student Competition (Ph.D. Category) in the 2022 Lone Star Hort Forum held by TNLA in College Station, TX (Jan 2022)
• 1st Place in graduate students’ Poster Contest at the 32nd Annual Texas Plant Protection Conference (Dec 2020)

3) University Level

• Nominated by the Department of Horticultural Sciences to the 2022 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Graduate Research (Feb 2022)
• 1st Place in the graduate students’ Poster Contest at the 2021 Texas A&M University Plant Breeding Symposium “Plant Breeding’s Global Reach” (Feb 2021)
• 2nd Place in the graduate students’ Poster Contest at the 2020 Texas A&M University Plant Breeding Symposium “Foresight 2020: Tuning Crops for Future Needs” (Feb 2020)

Being part of the AU Hort team as an Assistant Professor of Ornamental Horticulture, focusing on ornamental crop production, I see tremendous opportunities to collaborate with Alabama’s nursery and greenhouse community, helping our state’s flourishing green industry continue to thrive. My research program is all about listening to what growers want and supports their current and future needs related to outdoor nursery crop production, greenhouse floriculture, potted plant production, pest management, and new and emerging systems, including highly controlled environments.

• HORT 2020– Horticulture Crop Production (3 Credit Hours)
• HORT 5220/6220– Greenhouse Management Science (4 Credit Hours)
• HORT 5230/6230– Nursery Management (4 Credit Hours)