Emanoel S. Martins Emanoel is a visiting scholar from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Genetics and Plant Breeding.He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agronomy from the University of Grande Dourados and went on to earn his master’s degree from the University of Lavras.His research focus is quantitative
Matthew earned his Bachelor’s of Science in biology with a minor in mathematics at Illinois College. He would later earn his master’s degree in plant and environmental sciences from Clemson University with an emphasis in translational genomics. Matthew’s research interests are to develop statistical methods for genome-wide association studies and quantitative trait loci mapping that
Samuel B. Fernandes PostDoctoral Research associate Samuel earned his bachelor’s degree in Agronomy from the University of Brasilia and went on to earn his master’s degree and P.hD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of Lavras. After working for two years as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Genomic Biology, he has
Brian Rice is a PhD student who research focuses on detection of genomic variants that contribute to multiple phenotypic traits simultaneously. Brian received his master’s degree from the University of Illinois in The Lipka Lab. His work focusing on fixed effects in the genomic prediction model RR-BLUP was recently published in The
MARCUS O. OLATOYE postdoctoral Marcus Olatoye is a postdoctoral research fellow working on the use of QTL selection and genomic selection for disease resistance in miscane hybrids. Marcus graduated from the Department of Agronomy Kansas State University where he worked in the lab of Geoffrey Morris on genomic analysis of agroclimatic traits in sorghum using nested association
Alexander E. Lipka Assistant Professor Alexander E. Lipka is an Assistant Professor of Biometry in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently teaches CPSC 440: Applied Statistics. My research goals are to use my background in statistical genetics in an interdisciplinary environment to help answer questions pertaining (but not limited) to