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Timothy Donohue

Timothy Donohue

Professor, bacteriology; director, Wisconsin Energy Institute

Expert on biofuels and bio-based renewable energy technologies

Douglas Reinemann

Douglas Reinemann

Professor and CALS Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension

Expert on rural energy, energy sustainability (renewable and bio-energy), milking, stray voltage

Randall Jackson

Randall Jackson

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on community and ecosystem ecology in grasslands managed for grazing and/or prairie

Chris Kucharik

Chris Kucharik

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences and Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on agroecosystems, agroclimatology, soil carbon sequestration, ecological modeling, water resources, climate change, and extreme weather

Claudio Gratton

Claudio Gratton

Associate professor, entomology

Expert on arthropod food web ecology at the landscape scale

Natalia de Leon

Natalia de Leon

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on plant breeding and quantitative genetics

Scott Sanford

Scott Sanford

Senior outreach specialist, biological systems engineering

Expert on energy conservation for agricultural enterprises, renewable energy, biomass energy

Richard Amasino

Richard Amasino

Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin

Expert in plant biochemistry, bioenergy, regulation of flowering, and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Patrick Walsh

Patrick Walsh

Professor emeritus, biological systems engineering

Attorney and engineer with expertise in energy and environmental policy

Matt Ruark

Matt Ruark

Assistant professor, soil science

Expert in agricultural nutrient recommendations, nitrogen and phosphorus losses

Richard Shaten

Richard Shaten

Emeritus - Nelson Institute

Expert on the economic and environmental impact of energy systems

Shawn Kaeppler

Shawn Kaeppler

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert in maize, corn, genetics, biofuel, epigenetics, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, transgenic plants, crops for underdeveloped countries, plant roots

Troy Runge

Troy Runge

Associate professor, biological systems engineering

Expert on biomass composition impact on thermochemical processing systems

Garret Suen

Garret Suen

Assistant professor, bacteriology

Expert in genomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, functional genomics, metagenomics, microbiology, rumen microbiology, systems biology, biofuels, microbial ecology, evolutionary ecology

Chris Hittinger

Chris Hittinger

Assistant professor, genetics

Expert on the evolution of yeast carbon metabolism, evolutionary genomics/genetics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, evolutionary systems biology

Hiroshi Maeda

Hiroshi Maeda

Assistant professor, botany

Plant biochemistry and physiology, amino acid biosynthesis in plants

Holly Gibbs

Holly Gibbs

Professor, the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Holly Gibbs is an expert on tropical deforestation, with a focus on the potential for corporate promises to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Thomas Jeffries

Thomas Jeffries

USDA professor, microbiology

Expert on bioconversion, biorefining, advanced cellulosic biofuels, unconventional yeasts, yeast physiology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering

Ophelia Venturelli

Ophelia Venturelli

Biochemistry

Expert on microbial engineering, microbial metabolism and microbial interactions in the human gut microbiome

Tyler Lark

Tyler Lark

Researcher, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on U.S. agricultural land use, conservation, and federal policy

Brian Pfleger

Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Professor

Expert on synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, applied microbiology.

Elizabeth Wright

Elizabeth Wright

Professor, Biochemistry

Expert on the development and use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as applied to viruses, bacteria, and human cells.

Andrea Strzelec, Ph.D., FSAE

Andrea Strzelec, Ph.D., FSAE

Associate Scientist, Mechanical Engineering

Recognized for distinguished SAE leadership and impact in advancing the understanding of fuel effects on combustion, particulates, and emissions controls