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Aug 2, 2018

Ben Callahan

Dr. Benjamin Callahan joined NC State in January 2017 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of…

Aug 2, 2018

Zachary Brown

Zack Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and also part of the NCSU faculty cluster in the Genetic Engineering & Society Center. He earned his PhD…

Aug 2, 2018

Rodolphe Barrangou

Area(s) of Expertise Our laboratory focuses on the biology and genetics of CRISPR-Cas immune systems in bacteria. Using microbiology, molecular biology and genomics approaches, we investigate the use of CRISPR-Cas…

Aug 2, 2018

David Bird

David Bird received a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1984, followed by three years researching C. elegans developmental genetics with Dr Don Riddle at the University of…

Aug 2, 2018

Peter Balint-Kurti

We are interested in the genetic and mechanistic bases of natural variation in quantitative disease resistance and the defense response in maize. Quantitative disease resistance, also known as partial disease resistance, confers a…

Aug 1, 2018

David Aylor

We study how genetic variation controls complex traits, susceptibility to disease, and individual molecular biology. Most prevalent human diseases, most agriculturally important traits, and evolutionary fitness are complex traits, which…
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Aug 1, 2018

Jose Alonso

Our main interest is to understand the molecular circuits plants use to integrate environmental and developmental signals to produce specific responses. Towards this general goal we have been focusing on…

Aug 1, 2018

Trino Ascencio-Ibanez

I am interested in understanding the response of the plant to a viral infection, so my lab studies virus-plant interactions using a variety of methods and plant-virus models. Geminiviruses are…

Aug 1, 2018

Juan Acosta Jaramillo

Area(s) of Expertise Geneticist and Tree Improvement