UGA Forage Crop Breeding and Genetics
Personnel

Technical staff

Donald Wood
dtwood@uga.edu
Winterville, GA Breeding program manager
Yanling Wei
yweiuga@uga.edu
China
MS, Iowa State University, 2006
Genetics lab program manager
MS student in Statistics
Jonathan Markham
jonboy@uga.edu
Tifton, GA
BS, UGA, 2007
Field research associate
MS student in Plant Protection and Pest Management
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
Xuehui Li
xligalee@uga.edu
China
PhD student
Outbreeding depression, inbreeding depression and heterosis in M. sativa diploids and tetraploids
Rafael Reyno
rreyno78@uga.edu
Uruguay PhD student
Aluminum tolerance in alfalfa
Comparison of selection methodologies
Muhammet Sakiroglu muhammet@uga.edu

Ağrı, Turkey
BS, Harran Univ., Urfa, Turkey, 2001
MS, Iowa State Univ., 2006

PhD student
Taxonomic studies on the Medicago sativa-falcata complex diploids
Association mapping in diploid alfalfa

Undergraduate Students

  Dan    
  Jace    

Former Students

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
Julia Olmstead
juliaolmstead@gmail.com
MS, 2007
Sustainable Agriculture
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis
Valentin Picasso
vpicasso@gmail.com

PhD, 2008
Sustainable Agriculture

Director, Unidad de Posgrados y Educación Permanente
Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de la República O. del Uruguay
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
Joe Robins
Joseph.Robins@ars.usda.gov

PhD, 2004
Genetics

USDA-ARS Research Geneticist, Logan, UT
  Babita Thapa PhD, 2008
Plant Physiology
Co-advised with Allen Knapp
 
Mindy (Ryerson) Weishaar

MS, 2003
Plant Breeding

 

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