Current Funding

• USDA-NIFA Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems Program
• USDA-NIFA Agricultural Microbiomes in Plant Systems and Natural Resources Program
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Plant Genome Research Program
• The Huck Institutes, The Pennsylvania State University
• College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University

Past Funding

• NSF Predoctoral and Dissertation Improvement Grants
• JGI Community Sequencing Project (DOE)

Projects/Affiliations

• Microbiome Center
• Center for Root and Rhizosphere Biology
• Medicago HapMap Project
• Genomics of rapid evolution in novel environments (GrENE net)

Current Collaborators

• Rebecca Batstone– McMasters University
• Terrance Bell– Pennsylvania State University
• Estelle Couradeau– Pennsylvania State University
• Alexsandr Gavrin– Sainsbury Lab
• Carolyn Lowry– Pennsylvania State University
• Peter Tiffin— University of Minnesota
• Katy Heath— University of Illinois
• Brendan Epstein— University of Minnesota
• Nevin D. Young— University of Minnesota
• Michael Sadowsky— University of Minnesota
• Shaun Curtin— USDA, Cereal Disease Lab
• Bruna Bucciarelli– University of Minnesota
• Johanna Schmitt— University of California, Davis
• Daniel Runcie— University of California, Davis
• Alejandra Martinez-Berdeja— University of California, Davis

Past Collaborators

• Gabriela Auge–Fundación Insituto Leloir, IIBBA-CONICET,
• Kathleen Donohue— Duke University
• Joseph Guhlin— University of Minnesota
• Lindsay Leverett— Duke University (Donohue Lab)
• C. Jessica E. Metcalf— Princeton University
• Jean-Michel Michno— University of Minnesota
• Matt Nelson— University of Minnesota
• Michael Sadowsky— University of Minnesota
• Robert Shriver–Duke University (William Morris Lab)
• Nathan Springer— University of Minnesota
• Robert Stupar— University of Minnesota
• Bradley Tomasek— Duke University (Jim Clark Lab)
• Diana Trujillo— University of Minnesota
• Daniel Runcie— University of California, Davis
• Stephen M. Welch— Kansas State University
• Mandy Waters — PepsiCo
• Amity Wilczek— Deep Springs College
• Chunhui Zhang–Lanzhou University, China