Faculty

Jill Kanaley

June 30, 2021

Jill Kanaley

Educational background Ph.D., University of Illinois M.S., University of Illinois BA-BPHE, Queen’s University Courses taught NEP3850W: Physiology of Exercise NEP4940: Internship in Exercise Physiology NEP8501: Advanced Topics in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology NEP8850: Advanced Exercise Physiology NEP8860: Exercise Endocrinology NEP8870: Exercise Metabolism NEP8095: Master’s Internship…

Christopher Hardin

June 30, 2021

Christopher Hardin

Craig Schenck

June 30, 2021

Craig Schenck

To deal with relentless environmental pressures, plants produce an arsenal of structurally diverse defensive chemicals. These sometimes-complex compounds are derived from much simpler building blocks from primary metabolic pathways. Unlike well-documented diversification of plant specialized metabolic enzymes, core metabolic pathways are highly conserved and evolutionarily constrained because they serve essential metabolic functions, which makes manipulation of these pathways difficult. The expansion and alteration of core metabolism has given rise to the evolution of structurally diverse plant specialized metabolites. However, the underlying mechanisms enabling metabolic diversity and the connections linking core to specialized metabolism are not well known. These knowledge gaps…

Portrait of Pam Bruzina in flowered top

June 29, 2021

Pam Bruzina

Educational background Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison…

Heike Buecking

April 5, 2021

Heike Buecking

Plants are metaorganisms that engage in intimate associations with a wide diversity of microorganisms. Many of these microorganisms are beneficial and help plants to overcome a variety of abiotic and biotic stresses. In our research, we focus particularly on arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and nitrogen fixing rhizobia bacteria. AM fungi played a significant role during land plant evolution and form close interactions with the roots of 70% of land plants, including many agronomically important species, such as corn, soybean, or wheat. AM fungi increase the nutrient acquisition of for example phosphate, nitrogen, sulfur, and potassium from the soil, and improve…

Katherine Hagely

Feb. 9, 2021

Katherine Hagely

Keri Jacobs smiling.

Jan. 21, 2021

Keri L. Jacobs

Dr. Keri L. Jacobs is associate professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Missouri and holds the Partridge Chair in Cooperative Leadership. In 2021, she was named Executive Director of the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership (GICL). In her outreach role, Jacobs partners with cooperatives and their associations to create and deliver director and talent development programs in cooperative governance and finance, and to engage with cooperative boards and leadership in strategic planning. Through collaboration with industry and key stakeholders, she pursues research that seeks to inform and elevate producers’ opportunities through collective action within their supply…

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Jan. 8, 2021

Bhanu Telugu

A medium-skinned woman with medium-length black hair wears glasses and a grey blazer while standing in front of a green houseplant and smiling.

Dec. 11, 2020

So-Yon Park

Host-Parasitic plant interaction is a fascinating model to study Plant-Plant interaction. Park is interested in how mobile RNAs and proteins are exchanged, transferred, and functional in other organisms through the host-parasite interaction. Cuscuta (stem parasitic plant) and Phelipanche (root parasitic plant) growing on Arabidopsis, tomato, and soybean are major parasites used in Park lab. We are also interested in how small RNAs are transported and suppress target genes under drought stress in soybeans. Educational Background B.S., Dankook University, South KoreaPh.D., Seoul National University, South Korea…

Barry Edwards

Sep. 17, 2020

Barry Edwards