Kansas State University

Dr. Eduard Akhunov

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

Dr. Bob Bowden

Adjunct Professor
rbowden@ksu.edu

Dr. Myron Bruce

Research Assistant Professor
myronbruce@ksu.edu

Applied wheat pathology

Dr. David Cook

Assistant Professor
decook@ksu.edu
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Chromatin Dynamics, Technology applications

Dr. Giovana Cruppe

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. John Fellers

Adjunct Professor
jfellers@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. 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 Assistant Professor
dkoo@ksu.edu

Wheat cytogenetics

Dr. John Leslie

Distinguished Professor
jfl@ksu.edu
Biochemical, molecular, and population genetics of model and plant pathogenic fungi.

Dr. Chris Little

Professor
crlittle@ksu.edu
Sorghum and soybean 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. Jesse Poland

Associate Professor
jpoland@ksu.edu
Wheat genetics and germplasm improvement; marker technologies, association genetics and genomic selection for use in breeding. Resistance to wheat rusts.

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

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.