Technical staff
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Donald Wood dtwood@uga.edu |
Winterville, GA | Breeding program manager |
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Yanling Wei yweiuga@uga.edu |
China MS, Iowa State University, 2006 |
Genetics lab program manager MS student in Statistics |
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Jonathan Markham jonboy@uga.edu |
Tifton, GA BS, UGA, 2007 |
Field research associate MS student in Plant Protection and Pest Management |
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Wesley Dean wesleydn2@gmail.com |
Conyers, GA BS, UGA, 2007 |
Greenhouse manager and field research associate MS student in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics |
Postdoctoral Associates and Visiting Scientists
| Dr. M. Hammad Nadeem Tahir mhammadnadeem@yahoo.com |
Pakistan | Visiting postdoctoral scientist, 2008-2009 | |
| Dr. Xiaojuan Wang xiaojuanwang@lzu.edu.cn | China | Visiting scholar, 2009-2010 |
Graduate Students
| Ananta Acharya ananta@uga.edu |
Nepal MS, Univ. of Florida, 2008 |
PhD student Association mapping in switchgrass |
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Xuehui Li xligalee@uga.edu |
China |
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Rafael Reyno rreyno78@uga.edu |
Uruguay | PhD student Aluminum tolerance in alfalfa Comparison of selection methodologies |
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Muhammet Sakiroglu muhammet@uga.edu | Ağrı, Turkey |
PhD student Taxonomic studies on the Medicago sativa-falcata complex diploids Association mapping in diploid alfalfa |
Undergraduate Students
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Former Students
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Baldomero Alarcón-Zúñiga | PhD, 2003 Plant Breeding |
Assistant professor, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico |
| Patricia Cazcarro | MS, 2000 Plant Breeding |
Manager, Enzo Clinical Labs, Farmingdale, NY | |
| Cara Lea Council ccouncil@unm.edu |
MS, 2001 Genetics |
Undergraduate biology lab coordinator, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | |
| Fred Iutzi f-iutzi@wiu.edu |
MS, 2006 Sustainable Agriculture Co-advised with Jean-Luc Jannink |
Research Agronomist, Department of Agriculture, Western Illinois University | |
| Kathy Klos kklos@wsu.edu |
PhD, 1999 Plant Breeding |
Research Associate, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State Univ. | |
| Rocky Lemus RLemus@pss.msstate.edu |
MS, 2000 Plant Breeding |
Extension Forage Specialist, Assistant professor, Mississippi State University | |
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Julia Olmstead juliaolmstead@gmail.com |
MS, 2007 Sustainable Agriculture |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis |
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Valentin Picasso vpicasso@gmail.com |
PhD, 2008 |
Director,
Unidad de Posgrados y Educación Permanente Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de la República O. del Uruguay |
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Heathcliffe Riday Heathcliffe.Riday@ars.usda.gov |
MS, Iowa State Univ., 2001 PhD, Iowa State Univ., 2003 Plant Breeding |
USDA-ARS Research Geneticist, Madison, WI |
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Joe Robins Joseph.Robins@ars.usda.gov |
PhD, 2004 |
USDA-ARS Research Geneticist, Logan, UT |
| Babita Thapa | PhD, 2008 Plant Physiology Co-advised with Allen Knapp |
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Mindy (Ryerson) Weishaar | MS, 2003 |