Who We Are
Numerous faculty and staff from seven academic units contribute to the CTC. Faculty are located at the UF/IFAS main campus and the Citrus Research and Education Center (C-REC), Lake Alfred, FL. The initial working group consists of the following faculty:
Leadership
- Charlie Messina, Crop Transformation Center Director and Professor
- Eric Triplett, Founder, Crop Transformation Center, Professor & Department Chair
Disease Resistance
- Rosemary Loria, Lead, Plant Pathology
- Zhonglin Mou Citrus greening product development
- Jose Huguet Tapia, Predictive plant pathology and informatics
- Nian Wang, Citrus greening product development
Phenomics
- Esteban Rios, Lead, Plant Breeder
- Diego Jarquin, Multi-OMICS genetic prediction & AI
- Charlie Li, Robotics, automation & AI
- Kevin Wang, Field phenomics & AI
Trait biology
- Kelly Balmant, Lead, Bioinformatics and Transformation
- Fredy Altpeter, Transformation consultant
- Kevin Begcy, Gene-editing monocots
- Alfred Huo, Gene-editing dicots
- Jeongim Kim, Plant secondary metabolism
Breeding
- Vance Whitaker, Chair, UF/IFAS Plant Breeders Working Group
Human Dimensions
- Kay Kelsey, Lead, Human Dimensions and Program Evaluation
- Lisa House, Consumer economics, market research
- Bachir Kassas, Consumer behavior and preferences
Facilities and Infrastructure
- Jeanna Mastrodicasa, Associate Vice President
Interested in joining our team?
We are hiring post-doctoral associates join our team:
- Human dimensions postdoctoral position available, contact Dr. Kay Kelsey kathleen.kelsey@ufl.edu for more information.