Faculty members that contribute to plant breeding and genetics research and education at OSU are within the allied departments of Horticulture and Crop Science, Plant Pathology, and Entomology in CFAES and Molecular Genetics and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology in CA&S as well as members of interdisciplinary centers, including the Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for Soybean Research, and Food Innovation Center.
Who We Are
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello | Professor, Plant Pathology |
(614) 688-5401 bonello.2@osu.edu |
Resistance to pests and pathogens | |
Anne Dorrance | Professor, Plant Pathology; Associate Dean and Director, The Ohio State University Wooster Campus | Characterization of sources of resistance in soybean towards soil borne pathogens |
(330) 202-3560 dorrance.1@osu.edu |
Resistance to pests and pathogens |
Andrew Michel | Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Entomology | Molecular genetics; adaptation of insect-plant interactions |
(330) 263-3730 michel.70@osu.edu |
Resistance to pests and pathogens |
Feng Qu | Associate Professor, Plant Pathology |
(330) 263-3835 qu.28@osu.edu |
Resistance to pests and pathogens |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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Jessica Cooperstone | Assistant Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science, Food Science and Technology | Phytochemicals; metabolomics; plant and human health |
614-292-2843 cooperstone.1@osu.edu |
Germplasm characterization |
Diane Miller | Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Wild apple germplasm; field/consumer testing of Midwest Apple Improvement Association selections |
(330) 263-3824 miller.87@osu.edu |
Germplasm characterization |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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Katrina Cornish | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Bioemergent materials; rubber crops to products; waste valorization; CRISPR; crop domestication |
(330) 263-3982 cornish.19@osu.edu |
Commercialization & development |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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John Finer | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Transformation; promoter analysis; somatic embryogenesis; GFP expression; tissue culture |
(330) 263-3880 finer.1@osu.edu |
Plant transformation |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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David Francis | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science |
(330) 263-3893 francis.77@osu.edu |
Plant breeding | |
Jonathan Fresnedo Ramirez | Assistant Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Plant domestication and germplasm improvement of outcrossing species for production of biomaterials |
(330) 263-3822 fresnedoramirez.1@osu.edu |
Plant breeding |
Leah McHale | Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Plant breeding, genetics & genomics; disease resistance; grain quality; soybean |
(614) 292-9003 mchale.21@osu.edu |
Plant breeding |
Clay Sneller | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Plant breeding; statistics; genomic selection |
(330) 263-3944 sneller.5@osu.edu |
Plant breeding |
Eric Stockinger | Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Genetics & breeding of malting barley; winter-hardiness, gene regulation, copy number variation |
(330) 263-3876 stockinger.4@osu.edu |
Plant breeding |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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John Freudenstein | Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology |
(614) 688-0363 freudenstein.1@osu.edu |
Germplasm diversity | |
Pablo Jourdan | Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Germplasm enhancement; in vitro conservation; interspecific hybridization of herbaceous ornamentals |
(614) 292-3708 jourdan.1@osu.edu |
Germplasm diversity |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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Andrea Gschwend | Assistant Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science | Plant genomics; transcriptomics; gene evolution |
614-292-2014 gschwend.2@osu.edu |
Plant genetics |
Jay Hollick | Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics; Director, Center for Applied Plant Sciences |
(614) 292-9869 hollick.3@osu.edu |
Plant genetics | |
JC Jang | Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science, Molecular Genetics | Plant signal transduction; post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression |
(614) 292-8496 jang.40@osu.edu |
Plant genetics |
David Mackey | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science, Molecular Genetics | Plant immune systems; plant perturbation by microbial virulence factors |
(614) 292-5879 mackey.86@osu.edu |
Plant genetics |
Name | Position title | Specialization | Contact | |
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Joe Scheerens | Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science |
(330) 263-3826 scheerens.1@osu.edu |
Phenotyping |