People

Geoffrey Morris

Associate Professor

Crop Quantitative Genomics

Rubí Raymundo

Research Scientist 

Drought Resilience Trait Discovery

S.M. Abdul-Awal

Research Scientist

Allele Mining

Brian Rice

Postdoc

USAID SMIL Durable Adaptation

Alex Kena

Postdoc 

ILCI Trait Discovery & Artemis

Clara Cruet-Burgos

Postdoc

ILCI Trait Discovery

John Spiekerman

Postdoc

USAID SMIL Durable Adaptation & BMGF Green Evolution

Carl VanGessel 

Postdoc

BMGF Green Evolution

Samuel Abebrese

Postdoc

 Allele Mining Project 

Safietou Fall

PhD Student

USAID SMIL GENMIL Pearl Millet & ILCI Trait Discovery

Gina Cerimele

PhD Student

USCP Trait Discovery for Iron Deficiency Chlorosis

Nneka Okereke

PhD Student

 CWRF Wheat Drought Project 

Ashton Sturm

Research Coordinator


Theresa Ankamah-Yeboah

Visiting Scholar Lecturer & Assistant Coordinator for Academic Programmes, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) - University of Ghana


Joining the lab

Lab Alumni

Jacob Easley

Research Assistant

Currently:  Music Producer


Michelle Peterson

Research Assistant

Currently: Peace Corps

Carl VanGessel 

PhD Student

Currently: Postdoc in the Crop Adaptation Lab


Tony Schuh

MS Student

Currently: GRA and PhD student in the Simon Lab at UW Madison 

Kristen Johnson 

MS Student

Currently: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senate

Gina Cerimele

MS Student

Currently: GRA and PhD student in the Crop Adaptation Lab

Terry Felderhoff

Senior Research Scientist

Currently:  Research Assistant Professor - Sorghum molecular breeding KSU

 

Sandeep Marla

Postdoc 

Currently: Senior Research Scientist - KSU Plant Pathology

Kebede Muleta 

Postdoc 

Currently: Molecular Geneticist, HM.CLAUSE - Limagrain

Jacques Faye 

PhD Student

Currently: Research Scientist ISRA-CERAAS (Senegal national program)

Fanna Maina 

PhD Student

Currently: Research Scientist INRAN (Niger national program)

Noah Winans

Undergraduate Researcher

Currently: Graduate student, Texas A&M Sorghum breeding

Matt Davis

Assistant Scientist

Currently: Associate Scientist - KSU Sorghum molecular breeding

Sridevi Nakka

Postdoc 

Currently: Postdoc Heartland Plant Innovations 

Sophie Bouchet 

Postdoc Research Associate

Currently: Principal  Scientist - Wheat Genomics, INRA-France

Marcus Olatoye

PhD Student 

Currently: Research Geneticist - USDA ARS Hops program

Yi Li 

Postdoc - Heartland Plant Innovations 

Currently: Calyxt 

Bassirou Mbacké 

Visiting scholar (USDA Borlaug Fellow) - University of Thies

Jianan Wang

 Postdoc, Sorghum Genomics Toolkit

Currently: Assistant Professor, Hainan University

Zhenbin Hu 

Postdoc, TERRA-REF

Currently: Postdoc, St. Louis University

Shayna Braun 

Research Assistant

Currently: Cross Country Genetics

Rich Brown 

Research Technologist (UAV)

 Currently: General Electric

Ben Coomes 

Undergraduate Researcher

Qingling Li

Undergraduate Researcher

Karina Bertolino

Undergraduate Researcher

Austin Ebert

Undergraduate Researcher

Currently: USDA-ARS

Obembe Oladipo 

Research Assistant

Sam Knauss 

Undergraduate Researcher

Tarik Eluri

Postdoc - G2P Bridge (FFAR)

Tarik Eluri

Program manager

Currently: Sustainability manager, US Soybean Export Council