James Alfano Co-PI, Professor, UNL
Department of Plant Pathology
Center for Plant Science Innovation
Research Areas: Bacterial pathogens, Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, Plant Immunity
Aim 3, Aim 4
Erin Doyle Assistant Professor, Doane
Department of Biology
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Colorimetric Analysis, Education and Outreach
Aim 1, Aim 2, Education & Outreach
Tessa Durham Brooks Associate Professor, Doane
Department of Biology
Research Areas: Colorimetric Analysis, Root Exudate, Education and Outreach
Aim 2, Education & Outreach
James Eudy Associate Professor, UNMC
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
DNA Microarray and Sequencing Core Facilities, Director
Research Areas:
Katarzyna Glowacka Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Biochemistry
Research Areas: synthetic biology; increase resiliency of crops to climate change
Aim 3
Mark Griep Associate Professor, UNL
Department of Chemistry
Research Areas: Tribal College Science Education, DNA Replication Enzymology
Education & Outreach
Chittibabu Guda Professor, UNMC
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core, Director
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Cancer Genomics
Aim 4
Tomas Helikar Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Biochemistry
Research Areas:
Aim 1, Aim 3, Education & Outreach
Guangyong Li Research Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Plant Pathology
Center for Plant Science Innovation
Research Areas: Plant-bacateria interactions
Marc Libault Associate Professor, UNL
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Research Areas: Plant root response to biotic and abiotic stresses; Plant single cell biology
Aim 1
Etsuko Moriyama Professor, UNL
School of Biological Sciences
Center for Plant Science Innovation
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular Evolution
Aim 1, Aim 3
Toshihiro Obata Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Biochemistry
Research Areas: primary metabolism, metabolomics, abiotic stress, metabolic flux analysis, multi-enzyme complex
Aim 1, Aim 2
Gregory J. Pec Assistant Professor, UNK
Department of Biology
Research Areas: Root ecology, Soil Microbial Ecology
Aim 2, Education & Outreach
Sabrina Russo Associate Professor, UNL
School of Biological Sciences
Research Areas: Plant Ecology & Ecophysiology, Soil-Plant-Microbe Interactions
Aim 2
Rajib Saha Assistant Professor, UNL
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: modeling complex genetic circuits
Aim 3
Daniel Schachtman Professor, UNL
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Center for Plant Science Innovation
Center for Biotechnology, Director
Research Areas: Root Microbiome, Root Exudate, Maize Germplasm
Aim 2
James Schnable Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Center for Plant Science Innovation
Research Areas: Quantitative Genetics, Comparative Genomics, Grain Crop Biology
Aim 1, Aim 3, Aim 4
Julie Shaffer Chair, Professor, UNK
Department of Biology
Research Areas: Microbial Community, Microbiology Education
Aim 2, Education & Outreach
Brandi A. Sigmon Research Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Research Areas: Plant evolution and development, Comparative Genomics
Aim 4
Paul Twigg Professor, UNK
Department of Biology
Research Areas: Molecular Biology
Aim 2, Education & Outreach
Karin van Dijk Associate Professor, UNL
Department of Biochemistry
Research Areas:
Aim 2, Aim 4, Education & Outreach
Karrie Weber Associate Professor, UNL
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Research Areas:
Aim 2, Education & Outreach
Jinliang Yang Assistant Professor, UNL
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Research Areas: Quantitative Genetics and Statistical Genomics
Aim 1, Aim 4
