Yanling Wei
yweiuga@uga.edu
Lab Manager

Alfalfa genetics and genomics
MS-Iowa State University-2006

Donald Wood

Field and Greenhouse Manager

Forage Breeding and Variety Testing

Graduate Students

Muhammet Sakiroglu
msakir@iastate.edu
Turkey; PhD
Taxonomic studies on the Medicago sativa-falcata complex

Xuehui Li
galee@iastate.edu

China; PhD in IG

Outbreeding depression, inbreeding depression and heterosis in M. sativa diploids and tetraploids

Valentin Picasso
vpicasso@iastate.edu
Uruguay; PhD in GPSA
Plant diversity and perennial agroecosystem functioning

Julia Olmstead
jeo@iastate.edu
Minnesota; MS in GPSA
Genetic mapping of biomass yield and yield stability in Medicago truncatula

Fred Iutzi
belgrano@imsa.edu
Illinois; MS in GPSA
Small grain-forage intercropping (w/ J.-L. Jannink)

Heathcliffe Riday
xriday@iastate.edu
Switzerland; PhD
Germplasm enhancement of alfalfa using Medicago falcata

NOW: Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, Madison, WI

Baldomero Alarcon-Zuniga
camilaa@iastate.edu

Mexico; PhD

Physiological components of alfalfa winter hardiness

NOW:

Joe Robins
jgr@iastate.edu
Idaho; PhD in IGM
Genetic mapping of yield in alfalfa
NOW: Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, Logan, UT

Mindy Weishaar
ryerson@iastate.edu
Iowa; MS
Selection of non-dormant alfalfa for winter survival
NOW: Ag Science Research Technician, North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station, Ames, IA