Faculty

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…

Feb. 9, 2021

Katherine Hagely

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…

Jan. 8, 2021

Bhanu Telugu

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…

Sep. 17, 2020

Barry Edwards

Aug. 25, 2020

Chandra Boosani

Aug. 25, 2020

Kiho Lee

July 6, 2020

Michelle Brimecombe

Brimecombe’s interests are in sport management specifically related to the business side of sport, organizational behavior, player development, sport marketing, brand management and sport policy. Educational background Ph.D., Florida State University, 2012 M.S., Georgia Southern University, 2004  B.S., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2002 Courses taught PRST 2010: Sport Management  PRST 2281: Business of Sport and Recreation PRST 3185: Sport Economics and Finance PRST 3400: Sport and Recreation Marketing PRST 3282: Governance and Policy of Sport PRST 8100: Sport and Recreation Marketing…

June 24, 2020

Pavel Somavat

Educational background Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S., Information and Communications Engineering, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Maharshi Dayanand University, India…