Administrative Staff
Name | Position/title | Phone | |
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Kelsey Bogdanovich | Administrative Director | [email protected] | |
Dave La Fave | Finance Professional 3 | [email protected] | 612-624-3795 |
Lauren Matushin | Student Services Coordinator | [email protected] | 612-624-8747 |
Alicia McCann | Communications & Project Management | [email protected] | |
Anna Sidorenko | Executive Accounts Specialist | [email protected] |
Academic Staff
Name | Position/title | Areas of Interest | |
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Michael Barnes | Postdoctoral Associate | sustainable transitions, sustainable turf, urban nature and health, greenspace design |
[email protected] |
David Bedford | Senior Research Fellow | Apple Breeding; Cultivar Development and Commercialization |
[email protected] |
Tori Dahl | Student Organic Farm Manager | [email protected] | |
Gary Deters | Lawn Water Conservation Educator | Lawn water conservation, bentgrass, and low input turf. |
[email protected] |
Rajmund Eperjesi | Researcher 5 | tissue culture, plant physiology, SNP genotyping |
[email protected] |
Adria Fernandez | Researcher | Cover crops; soil microbial communities; legume crops |
[email protected] |
Kate Fessler | Grape Breeding and Enology Grant & Project Manager | Viticulture and Enology, Sustainable fruit production, Outreach & Extension |
[email protected] |
Katrina Freund Saxhaug | Postdoctoral Associate | Plant metabolomics, plant biochemistry, plant-insect interactions |
[email protected] |
Megan Harder | Researcher 1 | Sustainable Agriculture, Crop Diversity, Nutrient Cycling |
[email protected] |
Andrew Hollman | Researcher 6 | Fine Fescue, No-Mow, Breeding, winter survival |
[email protected] |
Drew Horton | Enology Specialist - Grape Breeding & Enology Project | Winemaking, Experimental Winemaking, Hybrid Grapes |
[email protected] |
Laura Irish | Teaching Specialist | propagation; education; club advising |
[email protected] |
Mitch Johnson | Researcher | [email protected] | |
Sarah Kostick | Postdoctoral Associate | Apple Breeding; DNA-informed Breeding; genomewide prediction |
[email protected] |
John Larsen | Researcher 1 | Tissue Culture, Potato Breeding, and Cultivar Development |
[email protected] |
Diana Carolina Lopez Arias | Postdoctoral Associate | Trait characterization, QTL mapping, RNAseq, Phytopathology |
[email protected] |
Xiaoxi Meng | Post-Doc | Potato genomics; Diversity; Evolution |
[email protected] |
Baylee Miller | Researcher 2 | quantitative trait locus mapping, haplotype analysis, marker-assisted selection |
[email protected] |
Kristine Moncada | Researcher 5 | Low-input fine fescues; Roadside turfgrasses; Lawn water conservation; Bee Lawns |
[email protected] |
Renata P Pincelli Souza | Researcher 6 | plant physiology, abiotic stress, plant growth regulators |
[email protected] |
Calvin Peters | Researcher | Data Science, Machine Learning / AI, Mass Spectrometry |
[email protected] |
Ryan Schwab | Researcher 3 | low-input, wetting agents, irrigation, golf |
[email protected] |
Florence Sessoms | Researcher | Nutrient and water conservation, soil microbes |
[email protected] |
Thomas Stefaniak | Researcher 6 | plant breeding, cultivar development |
[email protected] |
Emily Tepe | Researcher 5 | Sustainable fruit production; Apple rootstocks; Edible landscaping; Online teaching |
[email protected] |
John Tillman | Researcher | Molecular Breeding, Marker Assisted Breeding, Apple Cider Research |
[email protected] |
David Tork | Researcher 3 | Plant breeding, domestication, floriculture |
[email protected] |
Erin Treiber | Postdoctoral Associate | post-harvest; phylloxera; plant-insect |
[email protected] |
Jillian Turbeville | Researcher | Plant genetics, turfgrass phenotyping, and drought studies. |
[email protected] |
Extension Staff
Name | Position/title | Phone | |
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Natalie Hoidal | Extension Educator - Local Foods & Vegetable Production | [email protected] | |
Marissa Schuh | Extension Educator - Horticulture Integrated Pest Management | [email protected] | 612-460-7462 |
Julie Weisenhorn | Associate Extension Professor and Extension Educator, Horticulture | [email protected] | 9522396608 |