Potential faculty research mentors and their areas of research
For information on the breadth of research available to ACS2 scholars, please click on the names linked below to consult their webpages for more detailed information. Note that the list of potential research mentors below is not exhaustive.
| 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 |