People

Clara Cruet Burgos

Prebreeding Program Leader

CSU

Linly Banda

Grain Quality Lead

CSU

Safietou Fall

Elite Gene Pool Lead

CSU/CERAAS Senegal

Chloee McLaughlin

Pangenomics Lead

HudsonAlpha

Rubí Raymundo

Climate Resilience Lead

CSU

Ashton Sturm

Global Partnership Lead

CSU

Carl VanGessel

Pest Resilience Lead

CSU

Naomi Fosu Adoma

KNUST - Kena Lab

Yazachew Genet

CSU - Rhodes/McKay Labs

Rae McDowell

CSU - Rhodes Lab

Gloria Mensah

CSU - Morris Lab

Ted Monyak

CSU - Morris Lab

(BMGF Artemis funded)

Ebenezer Ogoe

UNL - Rice Lab

Temitope Olatunde

KSU - Felderhoff Lab

Portia Osei-Obeng

KSU - Felderhoff Lab

KT Samuel Owusu-Ansah

CSU - Morris Lab

(NSF EDGE funded)

Israel Tawiah Tetteh

KNUST - Kena Lab

Kidist Tolosa

CSU - McKay Lab

Caleb Yeboah

UNL - Rice Lab

Geoff Morris

Project Director

Colorado State University

Davina Rhodes

Project Associate Director

Colorado State University

Cyril Diatta

NARS Prebreeding Partner

ISRA - CNRA Senegal

Jacques Faye

NARS-CGIAR Marker Deployment

CIMMYT Senegal

Terry Felderhoff

Molecular Breeding

Kansas State University

Harish Gandhi

OneCG Dryland Cereal Breeding Lead

CIMMYT Kenya

Alex Kena

PanGenomeBreedR software

KNUST Ghana

Arjun Khakhar

Trait Biotechnology

Colorado State University

John Lovell

Pangenomics

HudsonAlpha

John Mckay

Trait Genetics

Colorado State University

Gael Pressoir

Systems Design

Chibas - Haiti

Brian Rice

Breeding Simulation

University of Nebraska

Lauren Farina

Graduate Research Assistant–

Trait Biotechnology 

CSU - Khakhar Lab

Alyssa Rosenow

Research Associate –
Field Phenotyping

CSU

David Zapata

Research Associate –
Laboratory Phenotyping

CSU

Rica Amore Saludares

Research Associate –
Prebreeding Operations

CSU

Robert Asiedu

Emeritus Director International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) - West Africa

Jan Leach

Colorado State University

Dept of Agricultural Biology

University Distinguished Professor