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	Dr. Eduard Akhunov University Distinguished Professor eakhunov@ksu.edu Wheat genome diversity and evolution. Disease resistance genes. Genetic and genomic tools and resources for wheat improvement.
	Dr. Alina Akhunova Research Professor, Director-Integrated Genomics Facility akhunova@ksu.edu Genomics, molecular biology, gene expression.
	Dr. Kelsey Andersen Onofre Assistant Professor andersenk@ksu.edu Extension and research for wheat and forage crops.
	Dr. Rodrigo Borba Onofre Assistant Professor onofre@ksu.edu Extension program - row crops, including soybean, sorghum, corn, and others.
	Dr. Myron Bruce Research Assistant Professor myronbruce@ksu.edu Applied wheat pathology
	Dr. David Cook Associate Professor, Director-Plant Pathology Graduate Program decook@ksu.edu Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Chromatin Dynamics, Technology applications
	Dr. Jared Crain Research Assistant Professor jcrain@ksu.edu Genomic selection efforts in intermediate wheatgrass. New genomic and phenomic tools in perennial crop breeding.
	Dr. Giovana Cruppe Research Assistant Professor gicruppe@ksu.edu Wheat blast research
	Dr. Erick DeWolf Professor dewolf1@ksu.edu Plant disease epidemiology and ecology. Development of disease management strategies for fungal diseases of wheat including Fusarium head blight, tan spot, leaf rust and stripe rust
	Dr. Marty Draper Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture maddr@ksu.edu
	Dr. Bernd Friebe Research Professor friebe@ksu.edu Cytogenetics, molecular cytogenetics and evolution of wheat. Transfer, cytogenetic identification, and characterization of wheat-alien translocations.
	Dr. Jagger Harvey Research Professor jjharvey@ksu.edu Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss, at Kansas State University.
	Dr. Megan Kennelly Professor, Department Head kennelly@ksu.edu Extension, diagnostics, and research for diseases of horticultural crops (vegetables, fruit, trees, flowers, and turfgrass).
	Dr. Dal-Hoe Koo Research Associate Professor dkoo@ksu.edu Wheat cytogenetics
	Dr. John Leslie University Distinguished Professor jfl@ksu.edu Biochemical, molecular, and population genetics of model and plant pathogenic fungi.
	Dr. Chris Little Professor crlittle@ksu.edu Sorghum, soybean, and cotton diseases. Seedling, root, stalk and seed diseases. Fungal pathogens of row crops.
	Dr. Sanzhen Liu Associate Professor liu3zhen@ksu.edu Cloning and characterization of pathogen resistance and drought resistance genes. Assembly and annotation of plant and microbe genomes.
	Dr. Shahideh Nouri Assistant Professor shahidehnr@ksu.edu Plant virology, virus-vector interactions, insect-specific viruses, virome, virus evolution, the development of new techniques to control viral infections
	Judy O'Mara Instructor, Director of KSU Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory jomara@ksu.edu Plant disease diagnostics. Undergraduate teaching.
	Dr. Trevor Rife Research Assistant Professor trife@ksu.edu Modernization of plant breeding programs around the world by optimizing data collection, management, and analysis.
	Dr. Jessica Rupp Assistant Professor jrupp@ksu.edu Wheat pathology
	Dr. Jim Stack Professor, Director: Great Plains Diagnostic Network jstack@ksu.edu Plant biosecurity. Plant disease diagnostics. Plant health-public health interface.
	Dr. Richard Todd Associate Professor rbtodd@ksu.edu Molecular genetics, genomics and cell biology of nitrogen utilization and metabolic gene regulation in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.
	Timothy Todd Instructor nema@ksu.edu Strategies for durable resistance in soybean to Heterodera glycines. Nematode diseases in corn and wheat. Population and community ecology of soil nematodes.
	Dr. Christopher Toomajian Associate Professor toomajia@ksu.edu Population genetics, molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics; plant and fungal genetics/genomics; bioinformatics.
	Dr. Harold Trick Professor hnt@ksu.edu Plant molecular biology and genetic enhancement of crop plants for tolerance/resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses and value-added traits.
	Dr. Barbara Valent University Distinguished Professor, Interdepartmental Genetics Program Chair bvalent@ksu.edu Effector biology and biotrophic strategies of Magnaporthe (Pyricularia) oryzae, causal agent of rice blast. Biology and management of wheat blast.
	Dr. Wei Wang Research Assistant Professor wwang0604@ksu.edu

	Dr. Bob Bowden Adjunct Professor rbowden@ksu.edu
	Dr. Justin Faris Adjunct Professor justin.faris@ndsu.nodak.edu
	Dr. John Fellers Adjunct Professor jfellers@ksu.edu
	Dr. Manjit Kang Adjunct Professor manjit5264@yahoo.com
	Dr. Jesse Poland Adjunct Professor jpoland@ksu.edu
	Dr. Brett Summerell Adjunct Professor brett.summerell@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

	Dr. William Bockus Emeritus bockus@ksu.edu
	Dr. Bikram Gill Emeritus University Distinguished Professor bsgill@ksu.edu
	Dr. Doug Jardine Emeritus jardine@ksu.edu
	Dr. Lowell Johnson Emeritus ljohnson@ksu.edu
	Dr. James C. Nelson Emeritus jcn@ksu.edu
	Dr. Fred Schwenk Emeritus fws@ksu.edu
	Dr. Frank White Emeritus fwhite@ksu.edu

Faculty Directory

Dr. William Bockus

Dr. Bikram Gill

Dr. Doug Jardine

Dr. Lowell Johnson

Dr. James C. Nelson

Dr. Fred Schwenk

Dr. Frank White