| Name | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Anderson Professor |
Breeding and Genetics of Spring Wheat, Intermediate wheatgrass, and Field pennycress |
[email protected] |
| Prabin Bajgain Research Assistant Professor |
Breeding & Genomics of Perennial Cereal Crops |
[email protected] |
| Roger Becker Professor - Extension Agronomist |
Extension Agronomist; Weed Management |
[email protected] |
| Rex Bernardo Professor and Endowed Chair in Corn Breeding and Genetics |
Maize breeding and statistical genetics |
[email protected] |
| Mary Brakke Teaching Assistant Professor |
[email protected] | |
| Jeffrey A Coulter Professor and Extension Agronomist |
Corn-based cropping systems |
[email protected] |
| Shaun Curtin Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Legume and cereal genomics |
[email protected] |
| Kathryn J Draeger Adjunct Assistant Professor, Statewide Director, Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships |
Supply Chains, Local Food Systems, Resilience in the face of disruption (space weather and solar storms), community engagement, sustainable development and higher education |
[email protected] |
| Beverly R Durgan Dean, UMN Extension, Professor of Weed Science |
Small grain weed management systems |
[email protected] |
| Nancy Jo Ehlke Professor |
Turf grasses and native legumes genetics and breeding; management strategies |
[email protected] |
| Axel Garcia y Garcia Associate Professor, Sustainable Cropping Systems Specialist |
Nitrogen and water use in rainfed and irrigated agoecosystems and crop production in northern conditions |
[email protected] |
| Katy Guthrie Teaching Assistant Professor |
[email protected] | |
| Jo Heuschele Research Agronomist (Biochemistry), Adjunct Assistant Professor |
[email protected] | |
| Candy Hirsch Professor |
Maize Genetics and Genomics |
[email protected] |
| Mitch Hunter Associate Director of Forever Green Initiative; Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Forever Green Initiative |
[email protected] |
| Gregg Johnson Associate Professor |
Integrated weed management (Southern ROC, Waseca). Cropping Systems |
[email protected] |
| Nicholas R Jordan Professor |
Agroecology, eco-social systems, agricultural diversification |
[email protected] |
| Jake Jungers Associate Professor |
Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, crop diversity, water quality, climate change, forages, perennial grains, cropping systems |
[email protected] |
| Jennifer A Kimball Assistant Professor |
Wild rice breeding, genetics, and conservation |
[email protected] |
| Aaron Lorenz Professor |
Soybean Breeding and Genetics |
[email protected] |
| M David Marks Adjunct Professor |
Domestication of pennycress |
[email protected] |
| Peter L Morrell Professor |
Computational Biology |
[email protected] |
| Gary J Muehlbauer Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department Head, Agronomy and Plant Genetics |
Wheat and Barley Molecular Genetics |
[email protected] |
| Helene Murray Executive Director, MISA |
Sustainable and Organic Agriculture; Multifunctional Agriculture; Local Food Systems |
[email protected] |
| Seth L Naeve Professor and Extension Agronomist |
Soybean management. |
[email protected] |
| Andrew Read Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Wheat and oat genetics, disease resistance genes, Oxford Nanopore Tech sequencing |
[email protected] |
| Walid Sadok Associate Professor |
Plant physiology, Agronomy, Climate change |
[email protected] |
| Debalin Sarangi Assistant Professor and Extension Weed Scientist |
Applied Weed Science, Herbicide resistance, Weed Ecology and Management |
[email protected] |
| Fawad Shah Visiting professor (affiliated) |
[email protected] | |
| Craig C Sheaffer Professor |
Alfalfa and Cropping Systems |
[email protected] |
| Kevin P Smith Professor |
Breeding and Genetics of Barley, Oat, and Silphium |
[email protected] |
| Robert Stupar Professor |
Legume molecular genetics |
[email protected] |
| Samantha Wells Associate Professor |
Sustainable system scientist with research focusing on agronomy, oilseed crops, and cover crops. Applied statistics consultant, teaching graduate-level courses in applied statistical design and storytelling. Member of the LGBTQIA+ community, supporting diversity, inclusion, and justice in higher education and beyond. |
[email protected] |
| Jochum J Wiersma Extension Professor, Small Grains Specialist |
Small grains production and management |
[email protected] |
| Zhanyou Xu Alfalfa Breeder, adjunct associate professor |
Genomic selection, machine learning, deep learning, germplasm evaluation and field breeding. |
[email protected] |
Emeritus Faculty
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Vernon B Cardwell Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Burle G Gengenbach Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Jeffrey L Gunsolus Emeritus Professor and Extension Weed Scientist |
[email protected] |
| Leland L Hardman Professor Emeritus, Extension |
[email protected] |
| Dale R Hicks Professor Emeritus, Extension |
[email protected] |
| Hans Joachim Jung Adjunct Professor Emeritus (USDA-ARS) |
[email protected] |
| JoAnn F S Lamb Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Gordon C Marten Adjunct Professor Emeritus (USDA-ARS) |
[email protected] |
| James H Orf Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Paul M Porter Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Steve R Simmons Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor/Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Robert E Stucker Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Carroll P Vance Adjunct Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |