M.S. Students
| Name | Area of research | Adviser(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Clayton | Apple flavor, high throughput phenotyping | Clark |
| Jonathan Cors | Plant biotechnology and genetic engineering | Watkins, Smanski |
| Lori Croghan | Gene drive, invasive species | A. Smith, N. Anderson |
| Lauren Docherty | Soybean cyst nematode diversity | Chen, Lorenz |
| Amanda Gilbert | Maize pan-genomics | C.N. Hirsch |
| Hannah Jee-Kaitlin Hall | Perennial flax breeding | N. Anderson |
| Alyssa Headley | Woody plants, nickel deficiency | Miller |
| Forest Hunt | Cold hardiness and gene expression in grape | Hegeman |
| Cassandra Kaplan | Industrial hemp, sustainable cropping systems | MIchaels |
| Emily Kolbe | Rose black spot resistance in landscape roses | Clark, Hokanson |
| Alina Smolskaya | Leaf shape and seed number in soybean | Lorenz, Stupar |
| Jillian Turbeville | Hard fescue shade tolerance | Watkins |
| Douglas Vines | Cold hardiness in grapevine | Clark |
Ph.D. Students
| Name | Area of research | Adviser(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Isaias Ariza | Statistical genetics and maize breeding | Bernardo |
| Vincenzo Averello IV | Genetics of tomato cholesterol biosynthesis | Hegeman |
| Maybell Banting | Molecular markers for seed shattering in cultivated wild rice | Kimball |
| Joan Barreto Ortiz | Maize genomics | C.N. Hirsch |
| Liesl Bower-Jernigan | Ornamental flower breeding and molecular genetics | N. Anderson |
| Michael Burns | Maize attributes affecting masa quality | C.N. Hirsch |
| Julian Cooper | Maize phenomics and genomics | C.D. Hirsch |
| Sapphire Coronejo | Genetic diversity in dihaploid and tetraploid potato | Shannon |
| Mary Jane Espina | Fine mapping for resistance to soybean iron deficiency chlorosis | Lorenz, Stupar |
| Isabella Fiore | Iron deficiency chlorosis in soybean | Lorenz, Stupar |
| Rommel Garrido | Maize pangenome | C.N. Hirsch |
| Emily Juhl | Flavor and metabolomics in apple | Hegeman, Luby |
| Sarah Klingenberg | Protein improvement in alfalfa | Stupar, Heuschele |
| Chase Krug | Genomewide association mapping in Silphium | Smith |
| Claire Menard | Maize genomics and bioinformatics | C.N. Hirsch |
| Reneth Millas | Cultivated wild rice breeding and genetics | Kimball |
| Kabita Poudel | Alfalfa genetics and breeding | Sheaffer, Xu |
| Alejandra Quinones | Abiotic stress biology | C.D. Hirsch |
| Albert Radloff | Metabolomics and domestication | N. Anderson |
| Inès Rebollo | Statistical genetics and maize breeding | Bernardo |
| Lucas Roberts | Soybean breeding for winter oilseed intercropping systems | Lorenz |
| Lovepreet Singh | Genotype-environment interaction in soybean | Lorenz |
| Hannah Stoll | Quantifying breeding progress in intermediate wheatgrass (Kernza) | J. Anderson |
| Dorothy Sweet | Maize phenomics and genomics | C.N. Hirsch |
| Timileyin Sunmonu | RNAseq, ploidy level, and recombination in potato | Shannon |
| Heather Tuttle | Polyploidy and gene expression in potato | Shannon |
| Muyideen Yusuf | Phenomic and genomic selection in potato | Shannon |