Back

Discover CALS

See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

Search for People

Bill Miller

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Contact

Interest

  • Flower bulbs and floriculture
  • Greenhouse and nursery crops
  • Physiology and post-harvest management
Gaurav Moghe

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Contact

Interest

  • Evolution of plant specialized metabolism
  • plant natural variation; genomics
  • metabolomics
Virginia Moore

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Contact

  • vm377 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Breeding for sustainable cropping systems
  • Cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems
  • Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp
Lukas Mueller

Adjunct Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Contact

  • lam87 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Genetics and genomics of solanaceous plants
  • SOL Genomics Network
June Nasrallah

Professor Emeritus

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Contact

Interest

  • Plant reproduction
  • Self-incompatibility
  • Receptor-ligand interactions and cell-cell signaling
Rebecca Nelson

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Circular bionutrient economy and enhancing wellbeing in peri-urban areas through waste valorization
  • Agroecology and supporting student leadership toward sustainability
  • Participatory research and extension
Andrew Nelson

Adjunct Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Contact

  • an425 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Comparative and high-throughput bioinformatics approaches to plant transcriptome research.
Daniel Nickrent

Adjunct Faculty

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Contact

  • dn277 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Plant evolutionary biology
  • Genomics, phylogenetics, systematics, population genetics, and taxonomy
  • Parasitic flowering plants (Santalales in particular)
Kevin Nixon

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Contact

  • kcn2 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Theory and methodology of phylogenetic analysis
  • Angiosperm phylogeny
  • Systematics and taxonomy of the oak family
Ralph Obendorf

Emeritus

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences

Contact

Madeline (Maddy) Oravec
She/her/hers

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

Contact

  • mwo23 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Grapevine breeding, genetics, and genomics
  • Fruit quality and wine-making characteristics
  • Disease resistance and environmental resilience
Varsha Pathare
she/hers

Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Contact

  • vsp29 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Plant-atmosphere CO2-water fluxes
  • Climate change
  • Resource-use efficiency
Teresa Pawlowska

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Contact

Interest

  • Evolutionary and population genomics
  • Innate immunity in fungi and fungal-bacterial interactions
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizae
Wojtek Pawlowski

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Contact

Interest

  • Meiotic recombination
  • Advanced microscopy methods
  • Recombination and genome rearrangements in new polyploids
Gregory Peck

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Contact

Interest

  • Tree fruit and hard cider
  • Organic agriculture and soil health
  • Climate change