January
Jesse Tack
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Kansas State University
February
Fadi Aramouni
Research Leader
Grain Quality and Structure Unit
USDA ARS
March
Dae Kwan Ko
Assistant Professor - Fixed Term
Plant Research Laboratories
Michigan State University
April
Brian Rice
Assistant Professor
Department of Agronomy & Hort.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
May
Luis Herrera-Estrella
Professor
Director of IGCAST
Texas Tec University
June
Tesfaye Mengiste
Professor
Plant Pathology
Purdue University
The Seminar Team
Sarah Sexton-Bowser
CSI Managing Director
Kansas State University
Gloria Burow
Research Geneticist
USDA ARS
Ramasamy Perumal
Associate Professor
Sorghum Breeder
Kansas State Unversity
July
Alexander Bucksch
Associate Professor
School of Plant Sciences
The University of Arizona
August
Junping Chen
Geneticist
Plant Stress and Germplasm Dev. Unit
USDA ARS
September
Yinghua Huang
Research Geneticist
Peanut and Small Grains Unit
USDA ARS
October
Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes
Researcher
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Embrapa Maize and Sorghum
November
Brent Bean
Director of Agronomy
United Sorghum Checkoff Program
December
Todd Michael
Research Professor
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology
Salk Institute