Recruiting Faculty and their Specialties
Cropping Systems: |
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Bruno Basso |
Crop Modeling, Land Use Sustainability. (basso@msu.edu) |
Kimberly A. Cassida |
Forage Agronomist. Management of forages (hay, haylage, pasture) and cover crops, emphasizing interactions among environments, plants, soils, and livestock. Resilience and sustainability of forage-based cropping systems. (cassida@msu.edu) |
Krista B. Isaacs |
International Seed Systems. Access and availability of preferred, quality seed for smallholder farmers. Crop ecology, participatory research, gender, human nutrition. (isaacskr@msu.edu) |
Maninder Singh |
Cropping systems agronomist. Improve productivity, profitability, and resiliency of corn, soybean, and wheat based cropping systems. (msingh@msu.edu) |
Kurt Steinke |
Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management. Improving the efficiency and refining nutrient management strategies across corn, soybean, sugarbeet, wheat, potato, dry bean, and vegetable cropping systems. Environmental uptake of heavy metals and other environmental contaminants. (ksteinke@msu.edu) |
Kurt D. Thelen |
Cropping systems agronomist with an emphasis on bioenergy and developing systems that increase food, feed, and energy production while safeguarding soil, air, water, and biodiversity. (thelenk3@msu.edu) |
Environmental Soil and Water Sciences: |
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Chris Blackwood |
Areas of expertise include ecology, microbiology, and soil science which focuses on the critical roles of soil-plant-microbe interactions in shaping plant communities, ecosystem processes, and soil carbon dynamics. (cblackwo@kent.edu) |
Andrey Guber |
Soil physics, soil hydrology and modeling water flow, solute and microbial transport in soils. (akguber@msu.edu) |
Alexandra N. Kravchenko |
Spatial variability in agroecosystems as a function of landscape, topography, and soil properties. Statistics, geostatistics and fractal/multifractal methods. (kravche1@msu.edu) |
Hui Li |
Environmental soil chemistry; sorption, transformation, plant uptake of perfluoroalkyl substances, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, dioxins in soils; Development of remediation technology. (lihui@msu.edu.) |
Jim Moran |
Biogeochemistry, spatially resolved analyses of rhizosphere processes, stable isotope analysis, plant-microbe interactions. (moranja7@msu.edu) |
A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi |
Analysis and prevention of non-point source pollution at laboratory, field, watershed and regional scales, watershed/water quality modeling, surface water-groundwater interactions, artificial intelligence (AI), decision support tools, and object-oriented programming. (pouyan@msu.edu) |
Joan B. Rose |
Microbiological water quality and public health safety. Molecular methods for waterborne pathogens including Cryptosporidium and enteric viruses. (rosejo@msu.edu) |
Christine Sprunger |
Soil Health and Ecosystem Ecology: soil ecology, nematology, soil health assessments, global change biology; carbon cycling, socio-ecological systems. (sprunge5@msu.edu) |
Kurt Steinke |
Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management. Improving the efficiency and refining nutrient management strategies across corn, soybean, sugarbeet, wheat, potato, dry bean, and vegetable cropping systems. Environmental uptake of heavy metals and other environmental contaminants (ksteinke@msu.edu) |
Lisa Tiemann |
Soil ecology and biogeochemistry; mechanisms of soil organic matter formation and microbial controls on soil nitrogen cycling. (ltiemann@msu.edu) |
Barret M. Wessel |
Pedology. Genesis, morphology, classification, and management of soils. Experienced in wetlands, lakes, coasts, organic soils, subaqueous soils and sediments. Developing a program in pedagogy/science of teaching and learning. Currently recruiting a graduate student to work on peat and muck soils. (wesselba@msu.edu) |
Wei Zhang |
Environmental soil physics; soil and water quality; food safety; environmental processes and impacts of contaminants (e.g., pharmaceuticals, antibiotic resistance, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and heavy metals); colloids and nanoparticles; emerging contaminants in soil, water and plant systems. We aspire to discover sciences and develop solutions for ensuring clean, safe and healthy soil, water and food. (weizhang@msu.edu) |
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics: |
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Grace Fleming |
Holistic analyses of seed molecular responses to environmental factors (flemi221@msu.edu) |
Sarah L. Lebeis |
Microbial ecology in and around plant tissues. Plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions in natural and synthetic systems. (lebeissa@msu.edu) |
Eric L. Patterson |
Genomics to understand the structure and plasticity of weedy genomes. Genome rearrangements (i.e. transposable elements and copy number variation) as novel sources of genetic variation for weed adaptation to abiotic stresses. (patte543@msu.edu) |
Joan B. Rose |
Microbiological water quality and public health safety. Molecular methods for waterborne pathogens including Cryptosporidium and enteric viruses. (rosejo@msu.edu) |
Plant Breeding and Genetics: |
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Karen A. Cichy |
Dry bean breeding and genetics. Emphasis on seed quality, human nutritional quality, processing quality and consumer acceptance. (cichykar@msu.edu) |
David S. Douches |
Potato breeding and genetics at 4x and 2x. Self-compatibility, breeding for disease and insect resistance and potato quality. Use of wild species, application of genetic engineering/gene editing to potato breeding, gene mapping. (douchesd@msu.edu) |
Eric Olson |
Wheat Breeding and Genetics; development of cultivars with improved agronomics, disease resistance, and end-use quality. (eolson@msu.edu) |
Rachel Naegele |
Sugarbeet genetics and pre- breeding for abiotic and biotic stress resistance with an emphasis on marker development, genomic/genetic resources and identification of new traits. (rachel.naegele@usda.gov) |
Hatem Rouached |
Plant mineral nutrition. Mineral nutrient sensing, signaling and transport in plants. Arabidopsis, tomato, and wheat (rouached@msu.edu) |
Addie Thompson |
Maize genetics and breeding, predictive modeling and computational genomics, plant stress, high-throughput phenotyping. (thom1718@msu.edu) |
Dechun Wang |
Soybean genetics/genomics; improved plant performance, host plant resistance and seed chemical composition to increase soybean value. (wangdech@msu.edu) |
Cholani Weebadde |
Plant Breeder For International Programs. White yam, potato, bean, rice and strawberry breeding and research. (weebadde@msu.edu) |
Plant Pathology |
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Greg Bonito |
Mycology, plant-fungal interactions, truffle ecology, evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis in fungi. (bonito@msu.edu) |
Martin I. Chilvers |
Field crop diseases; molecular diagnostics. Fungal and oomycete biology, epidemiology, genetics, host-pathogen interactions. (chilvers@msu.edu) |
Linda E. Hanson |
Soil-borne pathogens, particularly fungi, sugar beet and rotation crops, diversity and interaction w/ cropping systems. (hansonl5@msu.edu) |
Mary K. Hausbeck |
Vegetables, ornamentals, ginseng and hop disease management. Disease predictors; epidemiology. (hausbec1@msu.edu) |
Michelle Hulin |
Plant-bacteria interactions, molecular plant pathology, population genomics and evolution, bacterial secretion systems and effector biology. (hulinmic@msu.edu) |
Timothy D. Miles |
Small fruit and hop pathologist. Fungicide resistance and molecular diagnostics. (milesti2@msu.edu) |
Alejandro Rojas |
Mycology and Oomycete biology; plant-microbe interactions; population genetics and ecology of pathogenic and beneficial microbes, mainly fungi (rojasfle@msu.edu) |
George W. Sundin |
Fruit tree disease management. Plant bacteriology; host pathogen interactions; plasmid biology; microbial evolution. (sundin@msu.edu) |
Jamie F. Willbur |
Potato and sugar beet diseases. Integrated management strategies. Pathogen biology, ecology, and disease epidemiology; predictive modeling. (willbur1@msu.edu) |
Turfgrass: |
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Kevin W. Frank |
Turfgrass management with emphasis on soil and plant nutrient relationships, winterkill, water flux in putting greens, nutrient fate, and irrigation programs. (frankk@msu.edu) |
Emily (Merewitz) Holm |
Turf and cereal crop grass physiology; abiotic and biotic plant stress (merewitz@msu.edu) |
Thomas A. Nikolai |
Associate Coordinator of the 2-year Golf Turfgrass Management program. (nikolait@msu.edu) |
John N. Rogers, III |
Turfgrass management with emphasis on sports turf construction, establishment, and management; putting green management strategies. (rogersj@msu.edu) |
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Weed Science: |
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Erin E. Burns |
Weed management strategies in corn, potatoes, and forages. Biology, ecology, population dynamics, and integrated weed management of problematic weeds; practices to mitigate the development and spread of herbicide-resistant weeds. (burnser5@msu.edu) |
Eric L. Patterson |
Herbicide effects on plant physiology; evolving timescale of weed resistance. Genomics to understand the structure and plasticity of weedy genomes; Genetic variation for weed adaptation to abiotic stresses. (patte543@msu.edu) |
Karen A. Renner |
Weed and cover crop competition and community dynamics in agroecosystems; Weed seed banks in agroecosystems. Collaborative teaching and learning strategies. (renner@msu.edu) |
Christy L. Sprague |
Weed management strategies in soybean, sugar beets, and dry beans. Understanding weed crop interactions; manipulating interactions to improve weed management systems. (sprague1@msu.edu) |