Lead Researchers

Adina Howe

Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University

Andrew Leakey

Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Andy VanLoocke

Associate Professor of Agronomy, Iowa State University

Anna Hale

Research Geneticist, USDA ARS

Bin Peng

Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Brian Pfleger

Karen and William Monfre Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Bruce Dien

Research Chemical Engineer, USDA

Carl Bernacchi

Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Christopher Rao

Professor and Robert W. Schaefer Scholar of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Costas Maranas

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University

D.K. Lee

Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Rokhsar

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California at Berkeley

Daniel Voytas

McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development; Director, Center for Precision Plant Genomics, University of Minnesota

Diego Jarquin

Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of Florida

Edgar Cahoon

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln