Plant Breeding and Genetics faculty

Faculty for the department of Plant Breeding and Genetics

Name	Area of Concentration	Field(s)
William R Coffman Professor Dir Acad Email: wrc2@cornell.edu	Plant Breeding	International Agriculture and Rural Development International Development Plant Breeding
Walter S. De Jong Associate Professor Email: wsd2@cornell.edu	Potato Breeding/Genetics	Plant Breeding
Jeffrey J Doyle Professor Director Email: jjd5@cornell.edu	Plant Molecular Biology; Systematic Botany	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Plant Biology Plant Breeding
Elizabeth D Earle Professor Professor-C Email: ede3@cornell.edu	Plant Biotechnology and Crop Improvement	Plant Biology Plant Breeding
Stephen Kresovich Vice Provost Professor Email: sk20@cornell.edu	Genomics and Biotechnology New Life Sciences Initiative International Agriculture
Michael Mazourek Assistant Professor Email: mm284@cornell.edu
Susan Rutherford McCouch Professor Email: srm4@cornell.edu	Rice Molecular Genetics & Breeding	Genomics Plant Biology Plant Breeding Science and Technology Studies
Martha Ann Mutschler-Chu Professor Email: mam13@cornell.edu	Vegetable Breeding and Genetics	Horticulture Plant Biology Plant Breeding
Rebecca J. Nelson Associate Professor Associate Professor Email: rjn7@cornell.edu	International agriculture; Plant pathology; Plant genetics.	International Agriculture and Rural Development Plant Breeding Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
Wojciech Pawlowski Assistant Professor Email: wp45@cornell.edu	Molecular mechanisms governing meiosis, in particular homologous chromosome pairing and meiotic recombination.	Plant Biology Plant Breeding
Timothy Lloyd Setter Professor Email: tls1@cornell.edu	Physiology and genomics of stress tolerance in maize and cassava emphasizing water deficit, abscisic acid hormone, carbohydrate partitioning, kernel set	Plant Biology Soil and Crop Sciences
Margaret Elizabeth Smith Einarson Dir Assoc Acad Professor Email: mes25@cornell.edu	plant breeding	Conservation and Sustainable Development International Agriculture and Rural Development Latin American Studies Plant Breeding Soil and Crop Sciences
Mark Earl Sorrells Professor Chair Email: mes12@cornell.edu	Small Grains Breeding and Genetics	Plant Breeding
Steven D Tanksley L H Bailey Professor Professor-C Email: sdt4@cornell.edu	Molecular Genetics of Plant Breeding	Plant Biology
Donald Rex Viands Dean Assoc Professor Email: drv3@cornell.edu	Forage Breeding and Genetics	Plant Breeding