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Faculty

Photo	Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
	Ryan Contreras Associate Department Head / Professor	541-737-5462 Contact person by email	Landscape Plant Breeding
	Laurent Deluc Associate Professor	541-737-4356 Contact person by email	Genomics and genetic engineering in crops
	Patrick Hayes Professor emeritus	Contact person by email	Dr. Patrick Hayes is a Professor Emeritus of Barley Breeding and Genetics at Oregon State University. Since 1986 his research team has focused on barley - in its many forms and uses. Research thrusts have included: development of winter and facultative habit malting barley varieties; the many...
	Jennifer Kling Professor (Sr Res)	541-737-8277 Contact person by email	Plant breeding and genetics curriculum development and distance learning Quantitative genetics Experimental design and statistics Breeding specialty crops for niche markets in Oregon (currently oats, flax, corn and meadowfoam)
	Shawn Mehlenbacher Oregon Hazelnut Ind. Professor	541-737-5467 Contact person by email	The OSU Hazelnut Breeding program develops new cultivars for Oregon's hazelnut industry, with an emphasis on resistance to eastern filbert blight (EFB) and suitability for the kernel market.
	James Myers Professor-Endowed	541-737-3083 Contact person by email	We develop improved vegetable varieties with the main focus being to support gardeners, growers and processors in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). This region of the United States has a unique growing environment, and varieties developed elsewhere may not necessarily be optimally adapted...
	Andrew Ross Professor	541-737-9149 Contact person by email	Fundamental and applied research of cereal grain components, wheat-based foods (focused on food barley, noodles, and artisan breads), and bio-products from cereal grain fractions. Located in the OSU Cereal Breeding & Cereal Genetics Program.
	Vidyasager Sagar Sathuvalli	541-567-6337	Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
	Shaun Townsend Associate Professor (Sr Res)	541-737-5099 Contact person by email	The Aroma Hop Breeding Program is tasked with developing new hop cultivars, adapted for Oregon growing conditions, with a focus on essential oil quality. This program interacts closely with Dr. Tom Shellhammer's program in the Food Science & Technology Department to characterize the...
	Kelly Vining Associate Professor	Contact person by email	Genomics approaches to crop improvement
	Robert Zemetra Professor	541-737-4278 Contact person by email	Wheat Breeding and Genetics

Associated Faculty

Photo	Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
	Nahla Bassil Courtesy Status	541-738-4214 Contact person by email	Plant Geneticist
	Lauren Gwin Associate Professor	541-737-1569 Contact person by email	Community Food Systems
	John Henning Courtesy Appointment	541-738-4145 Contact person by email	USDA-ARS
	Glenn Howe Associate Professor	541-737-9001 Contact person by email
	Pankaj Jaiswal Professor	541-737-8471 Contact person by email	Chia, Rice, Flowering Time, Seed Development, Comparative Plant Genomics, Functional genomics, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Genome Annotation, Biochemical and Regulatory Pathway Databases, Genome Databases, Ontology Development.
	Keith Jayawickrama Dir-NW Tree Imprmnt Coop	541-737-8432 Contact person by email
	Christopher Langdon Professor	541-867-0231 Contact person by email	Research Areas: Aquaculture; nutrition of oysters and other bivalves; microencapsulation; polyculture of abalone; genetic selection of oysters. Chris’s research is broadly interested in aquaculture of oysters and other bivalves, and of sea vegetables such as dulse....
	Garry Stephenson Dir-Ctr Sm Farms/Comm Food Sys	541-737-5833 Contact person by email	Small Farms Specialist

Support Staff

Photo	Person	Contact Information
	Kali Brandt	Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 445 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Joel Davis Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email
	Tanya Filichkin Senior Faculty Research Asst I	541-737-1750 Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 251 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Scott Fisk Senior Faculty Research Asst I	541-737-2912 Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 257 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Hilary Gunn Laboratory Technician 2	Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 423 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Adam Heesacker Senior Faculty Research Asst I	541-737-5828 Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 107 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Laura Helgerson Senior Faculty Research Asst I	541-737-1547 Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 245 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Tyler Hoskins	Contact person by email Greenhouse, West Greenhouse, West 1130A 2801 SW Campus Way 2801 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Shinji Kawai Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email Agricultural & Life Sciences Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017 2750 SW Campus Way 2750 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Mark Larson Senior Faculty Research AsstII	541-737-4093 Contact person by email Crop Science Building Crop Science Building 235 3050 SW Campus Way 3050 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Rebecca Mc Cluskey Senior Faculty Research Assistant	Contact person by email Agricultural & Life Sciences Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017 2750 SW Campus Way 2750 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Nathalia Moretti Faculty Research Assistant	541-737-2949 Contact person by email
	Angela Randazzo	Contact person by email
	Daniela Resende... Courtesy Appointment	Contact person by email
	David Smith Senior Faculty Research Assistant	541-737-3108 Contact person by email Agricultural & Life Sciences Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017 2750 SW Campus Way 2750 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Jacob Snelling Senior Faculty Research Assistant I	541-737-4596 Contact person by email

Graduate Students

Photo	Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
	Mary Holzberger Graduate Research Assistant Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Hops Master of Science, Crop Science Major Professor: David Gent
	Burcu Celebioglu	Contact person by email	Major Advisor, Jim Myers Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: James Myers
	Melike Cirak Graduate Student	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: James Myers
	Mahmut Diker	Contact person by email	Ph.D., Horticulture Major Professor: Laurent Deluc
	Michael Gordon Graduate Students	Contact person by email	Host-induced gene silencing PhD. Molecular and Cellular Biology Major Professor: Steven Strauss , Major Professor: Jared LeBoldus
	Monzarath Hernandez Graduate Student	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: James Myers
	Serhan Mermer Assistant Professor Faculty		Our lab focuses on understanding the toxicology, chemistry, and risk assessment of agrochemicals and pesticides in the environment, agriculture, and human health. My research area includes measuring the environmentally relevant levels of pesticides and agrochemicals in the environment, food,... Ph.D., Horticulture, Entomology (option), and Toxicology (minor)
	Surbhi Nahata	Contact person by email	M.S. Environmental Science Major Professor: Steven Strauss
	Kristin Neill	Contact person by email	Recurrent selection to improve fruit and landscape qualitities of evergreen huckleberry. Interploidy and intersubgeneric hybridization in Cotoneaster. . Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: Ryan Contreras
	Lillian Padgitt-Cobb	Contact person by email	Major Professor: John Henning
	Hayley Park	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Botany and Plant Pathology Major Professor: Posy Busby , Major Professor: Christopher Mundt
	Muhammet Sahin Graduate Student	541-737-5839 Contact person by email	Forages Master of Science, Crop Science Major Professor: David Hannaway
	Elif Sahin Graduate Student	541-737-5839 Contact person by email	Forages Master of Science, Crop Science Major Professor: David Hannaway
	Elizabeth Seeno	Contact person by email	Major Professor: Serkan Ates
	Casey Kellog Wilson	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: James Myers
	Ozgecan Yalcin	Contact person by email	Ozge’s two major projects focus on identifying genome regions that are responsible for traits of economic importance in tetraploid highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, via Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) analysis, and using simple-sequence repeats (SSRs) markers to resolve... Master of Science, Horticulture Major Professor: Nahla Bassil , Major Professor: Chad Finn

Undergraduate Students