People
Full Time Project Scientists
Linly Banda
End Use Quality Lead
Alex Kena
Program Integration Lead
Safietou Fall
Elite Gene Pool Lead
John Spiekerman
Climate Resilience Lead
Carl VanGessel
Pest Resilience Lead
TBD
Pangenome Biologist Lead
Graduate Research Assistants (Starting Fall 2024)
Yazachew Genet
CSU - Rhodes Lab
Rae McDowell
CSU - Rhodes Lab
Gloria Mensah
CSU - Morris Lab
Adanech Nebsu
CSU - McKay Lab
Ebenezer Ogoe
UNL - Rice Lab
Temitope Olatunde
KSU - Felderhoff Lab
Portia Osei-Obeng
KSU - Felderhoff Lab
Samuel Owusu-Ansah
CSU - Morris Lab
Kidist Tolosa
CSU - McKay Lab
Caleb Yeboah
UNL - Rice Lab
Principal Investigators and Project Partners
Geoff Morris
Projec Director
Colorado State University
Davina Rhodes
Project Associate Director
Colorado State University
Cyril Diatta
NARS Partnerships
ISRA - CERAAS - CNRA
Jacques Faye
NARS Partnerships
ISRA - CERAAS
Terry Felderhoff
Molecular Breeding
Kansas State University
Harish Gandhi
OneCG Dryland Cereal Breeding Lead
CIMMYT
Arjun Khakhar
Trait Biotechnology
Colorado State University
John Lovell
Pangenomics
HudsonAlpha
John Mckay
Trait Genetics
Colorado State University
Gael Pressoir
Systems Design
Université Quisqueya - Haiti
Brian Rice
Breeding Simulation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scott Werner
Bird Resistance
USDA-APHIS, Fort Collins, CO
External Advisors
Robert Asiedu
Emeritus Director International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) - West Africa
Jan Leach
Colorado State University
Dept of Agricultural Biology
University Distinguished Professor
Support Staff
Ashton Sturm
Research Coordinator
Colorado State University
Alyssa Rosenow
Research Associate
Colorado State University
TBD
Research Associate
Colorado State University