Dr. Kyaw (Joe) Aung
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and genomics
Dr. Carmen Bain
Member
Department of Sociology
Role: Governance and societal issues
Dr. Diane Bassham
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and genomics
Dr. Thomas Baum
Member
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Madan Bhattacharyya
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Alan Culbertson
Member
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Role: ABC transporter function
Dr. Liang Dong
Member
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Role: Micro/nano devices
Dr. Shawn Dorius
Member
Department of Sociology
Role: Demographics and societal issues
Dr. Shui-zhang Fei
Member
Department of Horticulture
Role: Genetic and molecular tools
Dr. Ursula Frei
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Genetic and molecular tools
Dr. Hongqing (Michelle) Guo
Member
Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
Role: Genetic and molecular tools
Dr. Jessica Ji
Member
Crop Bioengineering Center
Role: Plant transformation
Dr. Shan Jiang
Member
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Role: Novel materials for molecule delivery
Dr. Dior Kelley
Advisory council
Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Keunsub Lee
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Molecular and genome-editing technology
Dr. Lingling Liu
Member
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Role: Novel materials for molecule delivery
Dr. Thomas Lubberstedt
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Trait discovery, validation, and allele optimization
Dr. W. Allen Miller
Member
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Role: Cellular and molecular mechanisms
Dr. Siddique Muhammad-Aboobucker
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Trait discovery, validation and integration
Dr. David Peters
Member
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Role: Demographics and societal issues
Dr. Reuben Peters
Member
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Role: Trait discovery, validation and integration
Dr. Lulu Rodriguez
Member
Seed Science Center
Role: Risk communication science
Dr. Maria Salas-Fernandez
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Trait discovery, validation, and integration
Dr. Dipali Sashital
Advisory Council
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Role: Understanding the CRISPR immune system
Dr. Patrick Schnable
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Crop genome informatics, sequencing technology and trait discovery
Josh Strable
Member
Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
Walter Suza
Member
Department of Agronomy
Erica Unger-Wallace
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Dr. Erik Vollbrecht
Advisory Council
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Justin Walley
Member
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Kan Wang
Co-director
Department of Agronomy
Role: Genetic transformation and genome editing technology development
Dr. Steve Whitham
Advisory Council
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Clark Wolf
Member
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Role: Societal impacts and bioethics
Dr. Marna D. Yandeau-Nelson
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Yanhai Yin
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Jianming Yu
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Trait discovery, validation and integration
Dr. Olga Zabotina
Member
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Role: Trait discovery, validation and integration
Emeritus Members
Dr. William Beavis
Member
Department of Agronomy
Role: Modeling and optimization
Dr. Phil Becraft
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Drena Dobbs
Member
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Genomics and computation biology
Dr. Stephen Howell
Member
Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
Role: Trait discovery and validation
Dr. Martin Spalding
Former Director
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Role: Genome editing technology and trait discovery
Dr. Jeffery Wolt
Former Co-director
Department of Agronomy
Role: Societal impacts and bioethics
External Members
Dr. James Birchler
Member
Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri
Role: Crop genome engineering
Dr. Volker Brendel
Member
Department of Biology, Indiana University
Role: Crop genome informatics
Dr. Istvan Ladunga
Member
Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Role: Crop genome informatics
Dr. Xianran Li
Member
USDA-ARS
Role: Computational Bioinformatics
Dr. Bing Yang
Advisory Council
Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri
Role: Genome editing technology and trait discovery