Faculty
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Scott Bales, M.S.
Dry Bean Systems Specialist
balessco@msu.edu
(989) 262-8550
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Bruno Basso
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor
basso@msu.edu
517-353-9009
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Chris Blackwood, Ph.D.
Professor
blackw79@msu.edu
517-432-0669
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Gregory Bonito, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
bonito@msu.edu
517-884-6958
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Erin Bosch-Hannah, M.S.
Academic Specialist - Agricultural Industries Coordinator - Education, Agricultural Technologies, Professional Internships
boscher2@msu.edu
517-353-0160
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Erin Burns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Integrated weed management with emphasis on practices to mitigate the development and spread of herbicide-resistant weeds.
burnser5@msu.edu
517-353-0223
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Jan Byrne, Ph.D.
Plant Pathology Diagnostician
byrnejm@msu.edu
517-355-3504
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Kim Cassida, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Extension Specialist - Forages & Cover Crops
cassida@msu.edu
517-353-0278
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Martin Chilvers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
chilvers@msu.edu
517-353-9967
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Karen Cichy, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS Adjunct Associate Professor - Dry bean breeding /genetics emphasizing seed quality, including human nutritional, processing quality and consumer acceptance.
karen.cichy@usda.gov
517-353-0210
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Julie Cotton, M.S.
Program Coordinator, Instructor, and Advisor for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and Ecological Food and Farming Systems programs
cottonj@msu.edu
517-353-0156
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Jon Dahl, M.S.
Senior Specialist-Manager: Soil and Plant Nutrient Laboratory
dahl@msu.edu
517-355-0218
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David Douches, Ph.D.
Professor; Director of MSU Potato Breeding and Genetics Program, Director of USAID Feed the Future Global Biotech Partnership, Director of Plant Breeding Genetics and Biotechnology Graduate Program
douchesd@msu.edu
517-884-6946
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Grace Fleming, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
flemi221@msu.edu
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Eunice Foster, Ph.D.
Professor - Student recruitment and development; K-20 STEM Education; formerly research in Crop Physiology
fosteref@msu.edu
517-353-0135
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Kevin Frank, Ph.D.
Professor and Turf Extension Specialist
frankk@msu.edu
517-353-0147
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David Gilstrap, Ph.D.
Senior Academic Specialist - Sports and Commercial Turf Management Education.
gilstrap@msu.edu
517-353-0140
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Susan Gruber
Undergraduate Advisor and Instructor
grubers@msu.edu
517-353-0326
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Andrey Guber, Ph.D.
Professor - Soil physics, soil hydrology and modeling water flow, solute and microbial transport in soils.
akguber@msu.edu
517-353-0269
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Ray Hammerschmidt, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology & Faculty Coordinator of MSU Plant and Pest Diagnostics
hammers1@msu.edu
517-432-0948
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Linda Hanson, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS Research Plant Pathologist and Adjunct Professor - Focus on soil-borne pathogens, particularly fungi, sugar beet and rotation crops, diversity and interaction w/ cropping systems.
linda.hanson@usda.gov
517-353-0208
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Mary Hausbeck, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor and Extension Specialist
hausbec1@msu.edu
517-355-4534
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Erin Hill, Ph.D.
Weed Science Diagnostician
hiller12@msu.edu
517-432-9693
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Brian Horgan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairperson
horganb@msu.edu
517-353-0120
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Michelle Hulin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
hulinmic@msu.edu
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Krista Isaacs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - International Seed Systems, International agriculture.
isaacskr@msu.edu
517-353-0155
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Alexandra Kravchenko
Professor - Soil spatial variability at scales from micro-aggregates to landscapes; statistical and geostatistical methods of data analysis.
kravche1@msu.edu
517-353-0469
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Sarah Lebeis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
lebeissa@msu.edu
517-353-0165
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Richard Lenski, Ph.D.
Hannah Professor - Microbial ecology, genetics and evolution; evolution of pathogen virulence; experiments with ‘digital’ organisms.
lenski@msu.edu
517-884-5397
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Hui Li, Ph.D.
Professor
lihui@msu.edu
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Chris Long, M.S.
Potato Extension Specialist
longch@msu.edu
517-353-0277
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Emily Merewitz-Holm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Plant physiologist; abiotic & biotic stresses of turfgrass and crop species; whole-plant, biochemical, & molecular techniques.
merewitz@msu.edu
517-353-0203
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Laura Miles, M.S.
Molecular Detection and Diagnostics
lmiles@msu.edu
517-353-2675
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Timothy Miles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Extension Specialist for diseases of blueberries, grapes, hops and other berry crops.
milesti2@msu.edu
517-355-3964
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James Moran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Stable isotope analysis; biogeochemistry; rhizosphere processes; instrument development
moranja7@msu.edu
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Rachel Naegele, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS Adjunct Assistant Professor - Sugarbeet genetics/breeding
rachel.naegele@usda.gov
517-353-0207
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Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Ph.D.
University Foundation Professor
pouyan@msu.edu
517-432-7653
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Thomas Nikolai, Ph.D.
Senior Turfgrass Academic Specialist - Golf Course Putting Green mechanical and cultural practices, turfgrass health.
nikolait@msu.edu
(517) 353-0133
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Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Wheat Breeding and Genetics
eolson@msu.edu
517-353-0142
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Eric Patterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Weed Geneticist
Patte543@msu.edu
517-353-0467
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Dennis Pennington, M.S.
Wheat Systems Specialist
pennin34@msu.edu
269-832-0497
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Karen Renner, Ph.D.
Professor & Teaching Coordinator, Integrated weed management including weed seed fate and diversified cropping systems influence on weed dynamics.
renner@msu.edu
517-353-0233
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Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, Ph.D.
MSU Foundation Professor-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, and Plant, Soil & Microbiology and Director of MSU’s Plant Resilience Institute
rheeseu6@msu.edu
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John Rogers III, Ph.D.
Professor, Turfgrass Research-Golf Course Renovations-Sports Turf and Golf Turf Management Programs; Turfgrass Research
rogersj@msu.edu
517-353-0136
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Alejandro Rojas
Assistant Professor
rojasfle@msu.edu
517-353-0116
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Joan Rose, Ph.D.
Homer Nowlin Endowed Chair in Water Research; Professor; Co-Director, Center for Water Sciences and Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment
rosejo@msu.edu
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Hatem Rouached, PH.D.
Assistant Professor; Plant Mineral nutrition: sensing, signaling, and transport
rouached@msu.edu
517-353-0157
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Maninder Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cropping Systems Agronomy
msingh@msu.edu
517-353-0226
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Christy Sprague, Ph.D.
Professor, Crops and Soils Sciences Program Director and Extension Specialist
sprague1@msu.edu
517-353-0224
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Christine Sprunger
Assistant Professor
sprunge5@msu.edu
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Kurt Steinke, Ph.D.
Extension Specialist - Soil Science and Associate Professor of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
ksteinke@msu.edu
517-353-0271
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George Sundin, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor and Extension Specialist
sundin@msu.edu
517-355-4573
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Brian Teppen, Ph.D.
Professor - Soil chem., molecular simulation, atomic-scale mechanisms, thermodynamics, kinetics of sorption reactions at mineral surfaces.
teppen@msu.edu
517-353-0481
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Kurt Thelen, Ph.D.
Professor - Bioenergy Cropping Systems; and, Director, MSU-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
thelenk3@msu.edu
517-353-0232
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Addie Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Maize genetics and genomics; quantitative genetics; plant morphology; drought stress; high-throughput phenotyping.
thom1718@msu.edu
517-353-0112
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Lisa Tiemann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor-Soil Biology-Soil ecology & biogeochemistry; mechanisms of soil organic matter formation & microbial controls on soil nitrogen cycling
ltiemann@msu.edu
517-353-0487
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Frances Trail, Ph.D.
Professor - Mycology; host-pathogen interactions.
trail@msu.edu
517-432-2939
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Dechun Wang, Ph.D.
Professor - Soybean genetics/genomics; to improve plant performance, host plant resistance and seed chemical composition.
wangdech@msu.edu
517-353-0219
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Cholani Weebadde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Plant Breeder for International Programs
weebadde@msu.edu
517-353-0159
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Barret Wessel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Pedology
wesselba@msu.edu
517-353-0270
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Jaime Willbur, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Integrated disease management in potato and sugar beet production
willbur1@msu.edu
517-355-4754
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Wei Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor - Environmental and Soil Physics
weizhang@msu.edu
517-353-0471