Council Members
W. Allen Miller
Director, Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses
Professor, Plant Pathology
Dr. Diane Birt
Interim Director, Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition
Distinguished Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition
Dr. George A. Kraus
Council Member-at-large
Physical Science/ College of LAS
University Professor, LAS & Chemistry
Dr. Dermot J. Hayes
Public Policy/Colleges of Business & Agriculture
Pioneer Chair of Agribusiness
Professor of Finance
Professor of Economics
Dr. Stephen H. Howell
Director, Plant Sciences Institute
Professor, Genetics, Development and 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. Kendall R. Lamkey
Director, Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding
Pioneer Chair in Maize Breeding
Interim Chair Professor, Agronomy
Dr. Manjit K. Misra
Director, Seed Science Center
Professor, Agricultural Biosystems Engineering
Dr. Basil J. Nikolau
Director, Center for Metabolic Biology
Professor, Biochemistry Biophysics & Molecular Biology
Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition
Dr. Patrick S. Schnable
Director, Center for Plant Genomics
Professor, Agronomy
Professor, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Dr. Jacqueline V. Shanks
Council Member-at-large
Engineering/ College of Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Randy C. Shoemaker
Council Member-at-large
Fundamental Plant Sciences/College of Agriculture
Professor, Agronomy/USDA-ARS
Dr. Kan Wang
Director, Plant Transformation Center
Professor, Agronomy
Associate Professor, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Dr. Pamela J. White
Council Member-at-Large
Applied Plant Sciences/College of Human Sciences
University Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition
