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Ryan Contreras
Associate Department Head / Professor
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My teaching and research focuses on woody nursery and landscape plants. I teach spring and fall woody plant identification courses, growth and development of horticultural crops, and plant propagation. Research in my lab is closely aligned with the nursery industry...

Laurent Deluc
Associate Professor
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Our group conduct research on functional genomics with a strong emphasis on specialty and cereal crops. We study different aspects of plant biology in the context of a developmental program and in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Our plant models grapevine, a major fruit crop in U.S....

Patrick Hayes
Professor
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We use genetics and plant breeding tools to understand and realize the potential of barley, a most amazing crop and model organism. Our applied efforts are directed at developing varieties and germplasm meeting a range of end uses: malting and brewing; food; and feed. Our basic research is...

Jennifer Kling
Professor (Sr Res)
541-737-8277
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  • 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
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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.

Plant Breeding: Develop new cultivars for Oregon's hazelnut industry, with emphasis on...

James Myers
Professor-Endowed
541-737-3083
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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 to the...

Andrew Ross
Professor
541-737-9149
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Fundamental and applied research of cereal grain components,

Wheat- and barley-based foods,

Fermentation as a vehicle for improving cereal-foods' nutritional profiles.

Advocacy for whole-grain consumption: whole-grains, fiber, human gut microbiome, and human...

Vidyasager Sagar Sathuvalli 541-567-6337

My research focuses on Potato Breeding and Germplasm Improvement using traditional, molecular, and genomic tools. My program will aim at developing new potato cultivars with increased biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, nutrient efficiency and processing quality.

Shaun Townsend
Associate Professor (Sr Res)
541-737-5099
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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
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My research integrates the powerful tools of genomics and bioinformatics with plant breeding. I work with a variety of crops important to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, including mint, hemp, hazelnut, black raspberry, and potato. Common research themes are identification of...

Robert Zemetra
Professor
541-737-4278
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Wheat Breeding and Genetics

Associated Faculty

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Nahla Bassil
Courtesy Appointment
541-738-4214
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Plant Geneticist

Lauren Gwin
Associate Professor
541-737-1569
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Focus areas: Farm and food system policy, local and regional food supply chains, community food system development.

Dr. Lauren Gwin is an Associate Professor in the Crop & Soil Science Department, Extension Community Food Systems Specialist, and Associate Director of OSU...

John Henning
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USDA-ARS

Glenn Howe
Associate Professor
541-737-9001
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Pankaj Jaiswal Pankaj Jaiswal
Professor
541-737-8471
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Flowering Time, Seed Development, Comparative Plant Genomics, Functional genomics, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Genome Annotation, Biochemical and Regulatory Pathway Databases, Genome Databases, Ontology Development.

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Keith Jayawickrama
Dir-NW Tree Imprmnt Coop
541-737-8432
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Christopher Langdon
Professor
541-867-0231
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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
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Garry is a Professor, Extension Small Farms Specialist and Director of the Center for Small Farms & Community Food Systems, an alternative farming program at Oregon State University that is striving to change the world through small scale organic/sustainable agriculture and local/regional...

Support Staff

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Crop Science Building

Crop Science Building 445

3050 SW Campus Way

3050 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Joel Davis
Faculty Research Assistant
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Tanya Filichkin
Senior Faculty Research Asst I
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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
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Crop Science Building

Crop Science Building 257

3050 SW Campus Way

3050 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Hilary Gunn
Laboratory Technician 2
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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
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Crop Science Building

Crop Science Building 107

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3050 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Laura Helgerson
Senior Faculty Research Asst I
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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
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Agricultural & Life Sciences

Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017

2750 SW Campus Way

2750 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Mark Larson
Senior Faculty Research AsstII
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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
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Agricultural & Life Sciences

Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017

2750 SW Campus Way

2750 SW Campus Way
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Nathalia Moretti
Faculty Research Assistant
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David Smith
Senior Faculty Research Assistant
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Agricultural & Life Sciences

Agricultural & Life Sciences 4017

2750 SW Campus Way

2750 SW Campus Way
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Jacob Snelling
Senior Faculty Research Assistant I
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Graduate Students

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Mary Holzberger
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Students
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Hops


Master of Science, Crop Science
Burcu Celebioglu Contact person by email Master of Science, Horticulture
Melike Cirak
Graduate Student
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Mahmut Diker Contact person by email Ph.D., Horticulture
Michael Gordon
Graduate Students
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Host-induced gene silencing


PhD. Molecular and Cellular Biology
Monzarath Hernandez
Graduate Student
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Serhan Mermer
Research Associate
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Ph.D., Horticulture
Surbhi Nahata Contact person by email


M.S. Environmental Science
Kristin Neill Contact person by email

Recurrent selection to improve fruit and landscape qualitities of evergreen huckleberry.

Interploidy and intersubgeneric hybridization in Cotoneaster.


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Master of Science, Horticulture
Lillian Padgitt-Cobb Contact person by email

Hayley Park Contact person by email


Master of Science, Horticulture
Muhammet Sahin
Graduate Student
541-737-5839
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Forages


Master of Science, Crop Science
Elif Sahin
Graduate Student
541-737-5839
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Forages


Master of Science, Crop Science
Elizabeth Seeno Contact person by email

Casey Kellog Wilson Contact person by email


Master of Science, Horticulture
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

Undergraduate Students