Faculty

Faculty involvement and their active research focus:

Stacy Bonos	Plant breeding genetic improvement of turfgrass, switchgrass; disease resistance and stress tolerance
Tiemi Curry	Plant tissue culture to support the breeding programs
Andrea Gallavotti	Maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture, meristem development
Joseph Goffreda	Plant breeding and genetic improvement of peach, apricot, nectarine and apple
Josh Honig	DNA fingerprinting, sequencing, genotyping, marker-assisted selection, genetic linkage mapping to support breeding programs
Bingru Huang	Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology
Eric Lam	Epigenetics, duckweed, genomics technologies, programmed cell death regulators
Michael Lawton	Functional genomics; mechanisms of stress tolerance
Tom Leustek	Metabolic control and engineering of plant metabolism, sulfur assimilation, nutrition, sensing, amino acid biosynthesis and regulation
Pal Maliga	Molecular biology, biotechnology, plant breeding, genetic improvement, plastid molecular biology
Tom Molnar	Plant breeding, genetic improvement, edible and ornamental tree crops; hazelnuts, dogwoods
Gina Sideli	Plant breeding, genetic improvement, cranberry, blueberry, polyphenolics
James Simon	Plant breeding, genetic improvement, new crop development, herbs, fruits and vegetables
Mark Zander	Plant (epi)genomics, plant immunity, plant hormone signaling, transcriptional regulation, plant stress responses