July 2022
Dr. Park obtained his PhD in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University. He completed two postdoctoral research associate trainings at the University of Arizona and USDA-ARS. With his expertise in plant cell & molecular biology, Dr. Park joined the ICR in 2017 as a Senior Scientist. He has […]
June 2022
Dr. Stanley Freeman is a senior researcher of plant pathology at the Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), The Volcani Center, Israel, where he has worked primarily on fruit crop diseases since 1993. Dr. Freeman obtained his Ph.D in plant pathology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1991, and was awarded a BARD postdoctoral […]
May 2022
Dr. Whitney Cranshaw is an Emeritus Professor and Instructor at Colorado State University in the Department of Agricultural Biology. After receiving his M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) in Entomology from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Cranshaw became an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at Colorado State University in 1983. As a faculty member and […]
April 2022
Dr. Punya Nachappa received her M.S. in Entomology from University of Georgia, and Ph.D. in Entomology from Kansas State University. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Nachappa held positions as a post-doctoral associate at Kansas State University and Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Colorado State University (CSU), she was an Associate Professor at Purdue […]
March 2022
Mitchell Westmoreland is a Ph.D. candidate in the Crop Physiology Laboratory, currently under the directorship of Dr. Bruce Bugbee, at Utah State University. He received his B.S. in Biology from Utah State University in 2018, after which he worked for the USDA Forage and Range Research Laboratory in Logan, UT before beginning his graduate […]
February 2022
Dr. Nirit Bernstein is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Medical Cannabis Research Lab at the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, located in Israel, and is a leader in medical cannabis research and irrigation with recycled water in Israel. She has a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the University of California, Davis USA, and […]