Council Members

Dr. Diane Birt
Interim Director, Nutrition and Wellness Research Center
Distinguished Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

Dr. Julie Dickerson
Council Member-at-Large
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. Dermot J. Hayes
Public Policy Task Force Leader
Pioneer Chair of Agribusiness
Professor, Finance
Professor, Economics

Dr. Stephen H. Howell
Director, Plant Sciences Institute
Professor, Genetics, Development & Cell Biology

Dr. Robert L. Jernigan
Director, Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics
Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology

Dr. Lawrence A. Johnson
Director, Center for Crops Utilization Research
Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

Dr. Thomas Lubberstedt
Director, Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding
Kenneth J. Frey Endowed Chair
Associate Professor, Agronomy

Dr. W. Allen Miller
Director, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses
Professor, Plant Pathology
Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology

Dr. Manjit K. Misra
Director, Seed Science Center
Professor, Agricultural Biosystems Engineering

Dr. Basil J. Nikolau
Director, Center for Metabolic Biology
Frances M. Craig Professor
Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

Dr. Thomas Peterson
Council Member-at-Large
Professor, Genetics, Development & Cell Biology
Pioneer Chair in Maize Molecular Genetics

Dr. Patrick S. Schnable
Director, Center for Plant Genomics
Baker Professor of Agronomy
Professor, Genetics, Development & Cell Biology

Dr. Martin Spalding
Council Member-at-Large
Professor and Chair, Genetics, Development & Cell Biology

Dr. Kan Wang
Director, Plant Transformation Center
Professor, Agronomy
Professor, Genetics, Development & Cell Biology

Ms. Deanne Brill (Ex-Officio)
Business Manager, Plant Sciences Institute

Dr. Charlotte Bronson (Ex-officio)
Associate Vice Provost for Research

Ms. Meg Gordon (Ex-Officio)
Communications Specialist, Plant Sciences Institute

Ms. Robin Habeger (Ex-Officio)
Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations, Iowa State
University Foundation