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Dr. Craig Yencho
Professor and Program Leader
Department of Horticultural Science, NC State
Principal Investigator, Sweetpotato and Potato Breeding
[email protected]
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| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy Koch | Administrative Staff | Program Coordinator | |
| Craig Yencho | Senior Staff | Lead PI, Professor | [email protected] |
| Zhao-Bang Zeng | Senior Staff | Professor | [email protected] |
| Fred Wright | Senior Staff | Professor | [email protected] |
| Lina Quesada | Senior Staff | Assistant Professor | [email protected] |
| Sharon Williamson | Technical Staff | Lab Manager | [email protected] |
| Hannah Huntley | Technical Staff | Research Technician | [email protected] |
| Guilherme da Silva Pereira | Technical Staff | Bioinformatics Research Center | [email protected] |
| Marcelo Mollinari | Technical Staff | Bioinformatics Research Center | [email protected] |
| Bonny Oloka | PhD Student | Horticultural Science | [email protected] |
| Victor Amankwaah | PhD Student | Plant Breeding and Bioinformatics | [email protected] |
| Wenjing Lu | PhD Student | Statistics and Bioinformatics | [email protected] |
| Xiaofei Zhang | [email protected] | ||
| Jeremy Machacek | [email protected] | ||
| Ken Pecota | [email protected] | ||
| David Baltzegar | [email protected] |
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Buell | Senior Staff | Lead PI, Professor | [email protected] |
| John Johnston | Administrative Staff | Systems Administrator | [email protected] |
| Krystle Wiegert Rininger | Technical Staff | Research Assistant | [email protected] |
| John Hamilton | Bioinformatics Staff | Research Bioinformatic | [email protected] |
| Grant Godden | Postdoctoral Scholar | Postdoctoral Research Associate | [email protected] |
| Jeongwoon Kim | Postdoctoral Scholar | Postdoctoral Research Associate | [email protected] |
| Paul Rosemurgy | Postdoctoral Scholar | Undergraduate Lab Assistant | |
| Kin Lau | Postdoctoral scholar | [email protected] | |
| Manrique Carpintero,Norma | [email protected] |
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lachlan Coin | Senior Staff | Lead PI | [email protected] |
| Derek Benson | Bioinformatics Staff | Bioinformatics Specialist | [email protected] |
| Chenxi Zhou | PhD Student | PhD Student | [email protected] |
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benard Yada | Senior Staff | Sweetpotato Breeder, Lead PI | [email protected] |
| Gorrettie Ssemakula | Senior Staff | Sweetpotato Breeder | [email protected] |
| Milton Otema Anyanga | Senior Staff | Entomologist | [email protected] |
| Doreen Murenju Chelangat | Research Assistant | Plant Breeding | [email protected] |
| Joanne Adero | Research Assistant | Molecular Biology/Virologist | [email protected] |
| Regina Aboyo | Research Technician | Plant Breeding | |
| Jennifer Asiimwe | Research Technician | Molecular Biology/Virologist | |
| Paul Musana | Entomology | ||
| Roy Odama | Plant Breeding | ||
| Malson Natuhwera | Plant Breeding-Nutrient Profiling |
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lukas Mueller | Senior Staff | Lead PI , Associate Professor | [email protected] |
| Zhangjun Fei | Senior Staff | Lead PI, Associate Professor | [email protected] |
| Bryan Ellerbrock | Technical Staff | [email protected] | |
| Nicolas Morales | Technical Staff | Web Programmer | [email protected] |
| Lei Gao | Genome assembly and pan-genome analysis | ||
| Naama Menda | Postdoctoral | Database development | [email protected] |
| Ryland Bednarek | Graduate student, transcriptome of sweetpotato and virus interaction | ||
| Shan Wu | Postdoctoral |
| International Potato Center – Lima | |||
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| Name | Title | Role | |
| Wolfgang Gruneberg | Senior Scientist | Sweetpotato Breeder | [email protected] |
| Jan Kreuze | Senior Scientist | Virologist | [email protected] |
| Mariam David | Research Assistant | Molecular Breeding | [email protected] |
| Federico Diaz | Research Associate | Sweetpotato Breeder | [email protected] |
| Raul Eyzaguirre | Research Associate | Statistics | [email protected] |
| Veronica Mosquera | Research Assistant | Molecular Breeding | [email protected] |
| International Potato Center – Ghana | |||
| Edward (Ted) Carey | Senior Scientist | Sweetpotato Breeder Geneticist | [email protected] |
| John Saaka | Technical Staff | BS sweetpotato technician | [email protected] |
| Razak Assimah | Technical Staff | BS sweetpotato technician | [email protected] |
| Thomas Tuffour | Technical Staff | BS Food scientist | [email protected] |
| Reuben Tendo Ssali | Post-Doc | Sweetpotato Breeder and Geneticist | [email protected] |
| Simon Imoro | Research associate | Data manager | [email protected] |
| Isaac Dorgbetor | Research Technician | Sweetpotato technician | [email protected] |
| International Potato Center – Kenya | |||
| Dorcus Gemenet | Scientist | Lead PI, Molecular Breeeder and Quantitative Geneticist. | [email protected] |
| Mercy Kitavi | Postdoctoral | Molecular Breeder & capacity building | [email protected] |
| Dorcah Ndege | Technical Staff | Biotech Technician | [email protected] |
| Marc Ghislain | Senior Scientist | Genomics and Biotechnology | [email protected] |
| International Potato Center – Uganda | |||
| Robert Mwanga | Senior Scientist | Sweetpotato Breeder Geneticist | [email protected] |
| Godfrey Seruwu | Technical Staff | ||
| Jolien Swanckaert | Postdoctoral scholar | Sweetpotato Breeder and Geneticist | [email protected] |
| James Kawuma | Technical Staff | ||
| Rose Makumbi | Technical Staff | ||
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Dorcas Quain | Associate professor | Leader Biotechnology research program |
| Name | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bode Olukolu | Associate professor | Research professor | [email protected] |
