Potential faculty research mentors and their areas of research
For information on the breadth of research available to WAMS-ACS2 scholars, please click on the names linked below to consult their webpages for more detailed information.
| Research Theme | Name | Department | Research specifics |
Agroecology | Isaya Kisekka | Land, Air, and Water Resources | sustainable water management in agroecosystems |
| Jorge Rodrigues | Land, Air, and Water Resources | genomics and ecology of soil microbes | |
| Amelie Gaudin | Plant Sciences | agroecology, plant-soil-microbe interactions | |
| Valerie Eviner | Plant Sciences | terrestrial ecosystem management and restoration | |
| Food Sciences | Julien Delarue | Food Science and Technology | sensory perception and preferences |
| Nitin Nitin | Food Science and Technology | interdisciplinary approaches to food engineering | |
| Ameer Taha | Food Science and Technology | assaying lipids and lipid-like toxins in foods and effects on the brain | |
| Plant Sciences | Gitta Coaker | Plant Pathology | biochemical interactions between plants and pathogens |
| Tiffany Lowe-Power | Plant Pathology | microbial ecology, plant host genomics, and disease physiology | |
| Charles Brummer | Plant Sciences | plant breeding, seed biotechnology, forage systems | |
| Georgia Drakakaki | Plant Sciences | plant cell wall biosynthesis and plant stress responses | |
| Imtiyaz Khanday | Plant Sciences | seed development and strategies for crop propagation, seed biotechnology | |
| Li Tian | Plant Sciences | phytonutrients, improvement of crop phytonutrients | |
| Allen Van Deynze | Plant Sciences | plant breeding, seed biotechnology | |
| Daniel Kliebenstein | Plant Sciences | plant genomics, evolution of plant secondary metabolism/human nutrition | |
| Postharvest Biology | Diane Beckles | Plant Sciences | pre- and postharvest influences on fruit quality |
| Bárbara Blanco-Ulate | Plant Sciences | traits that affect postharvest fruit quality and development | |
| Maeli Melotto | Plant Sciences | plant responses to microorganisms and microbial safety of fresh fruits and vegetables | |
| Alyson Mitchell | Food Science and Technology | food chemistry and post-harvest technology | |
| Viticulture & Enology | Megan Bartlett | Viticulture and Enology | grape vine responses to drought and heat stress |
| Susan Ebeler | Viticulture and Enology | flavor chemistry of foods and beverages | |
| Elisabeth Forrestel | Viticulture and Enology | ecophysiological and evolutionary basis of extreme heat and drought impacts on grapevine | |
| Ben Montpetit | Viticulture and Enology | yeast molecular biology; wine quality |