Principal Investigators (PIs) 2010

* denotes that (a) project led by PI under respective Theme or RI was on a no-cost extension into 2010.

Name Research Initiative (RI)/Theme (T1, T2, etc)/IBP Home institute
Fouad Abbad Andaloussi T2* Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA–Morocco)
Jorge Acosta-Gallegos T2 Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias, (INIFAP), Mexico
Alfredo Alves Cassava EMBRAPA Labex–USA,
USDA–ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, USA
Elizabeth Arnaud T3* Bioversity
Steve Beebe (replaced Matthew Blair) T4, Legumes: beans CIAT
Matthew Blair (left 2010) T4, Legumes: beans CIAT
Eduardo Blumwald T1 University of California, Davis, USA
Andrew Borrell T1 Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia
Masdiar Bustamam T4 Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD)
Alain Charcosset T3, IBP Agropolis–INRA
Rogerio Chiulele T4 Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
Julapark Chunwongse T2* National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand
Ndiaga Cissé T4* Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA), Senegal
Fran Clarke T3, IBP Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Douglas Cook T1, Legumes University of California, Davis, USA
Eric Danquah T4 West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana
Guy Davenport (left 2010) T3,* IBP CIMMYT
Carmen de Vicente (left 2010) T4, Legumes, IBP GCP
Xavier Delannay IBP GCP
Mark Dieters T3, IBP University of Queensland, Australia
Issa Drabo T4 Institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso
Susanne Dreisigacker T2 CIMMYT
Chiedozie Egesi Cassava National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Nigeria
Jeffrey Ehlers T2, T4,* Legumes: cowpeas University of California, Riverside, USA
Morag Ferguson Cassava IITA
Theresa Fulton T4* Institute for Genomic Diversity (IGD), Cornell University, USA
Pooran Gaur T1 ICRISAT
James Gethi T2 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
Alain Ghesquière T2* Agropolis−IRD, France
Jean Christophe Glaszmann T2, IBP* GCP/Agropolis−CIRAD, France
Humberto Gómez Paniagua (left 2010) T4, IBP GCP (Consultant)
Diego González-de-León (left 2010) T3, IBP GCP
Wolfgang Grüneberg T2 CIP
Samuel Gudu RI–CG Moi University/Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
Claudia Guimarães RI–CG EMBRAPA, Brazil
Michael Halewood T4 Bioversity International
Tom Hash T1,* T2 ICRISAT
Chunlin He T4, IBP GCP
Sigrid Heuer TI, RI–CG IRRI
Glenn Hyman T2,* T4* CIAT
Ruilian Jing T2, Wheat Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Boonrat Jongdee T3 Bureau of Rice Research and Development (BRRD), Rice Department, Thailand
David Jordan T1 Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia
Shoshi Kikuchi T1* National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan
Steven J Knapp (left 2010) T1* University of Georgia (UGA), USA
Leon Kochian RI–CG USDA–ARS/Cornell University, USA
Robert Koebner T3* CropGen International
Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy T2* ICRISAT
Arvind Kumar T2* IRRI
Mark Laing T2, T4 University of KwaZulu–Natal (UKZN), South Africa
Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw T4 BIOTEC, Thailand
Peter Langridge T1 Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics Pty Ltd (ACPFG)
Hei Leung T2* IRRI
Chengzhi Liang T3, IBP IRRI
Mathias Lorieux T2 CIAT/Agropolis–IRD, France
Jonathan Lynch T2 Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jurandir Magalhaes T2,* RI–CG EMBRAPA, Brazil
Marcos Malosetti T3, IBP Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The Netherlands
Gregory May T1 National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), USA
Susan McCouch RI–CG USDA–ARS/Cornell University, USA
Graham McLaren T3, IBP GCP
Ken McNally (replaced Rachid Serraj) T2 IRRI
SC Misra T2 Agharkar Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Márta Molnár-Láng T2 Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop Rice AfricaRice
George W Norton T5 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Francis Ogbonnaya T2 ICARDA
Emmanuel Okogbenin T4, Cassava NRCRI
Allen Oppong T4* Crops Research Institute (CRI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Peggy Ozias-Akins (replaced S Knapp) T1* University of Georgia (UGA), USA
Andrew H Paterson T1 University of Georgia (UGA), USA
Andy Pereira T1* Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Chalermpol Phumichai T2* BIOTEC, Thailand
Arllet Portugal T3, IBP CIMMYT/GCP
Vinod Prabhu Wheat Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
Lawrence Pratt T4* Centro de Inteligencia sobre Mercados Sostenibles (CIMS), INCAE Business School, Costa Rica
Pablo Rabinowicz T1 University of Maryland, USA
Jean-François Rami T5, Sorghum Agropolis−CIRAD, France
Mathieu Rouard T3* Bioversity
NR Sackville Hamilton T2* IRRI
MA Salam T4 Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
Hector Sanchez IBP CIMMYT
Robert Schaffert T2 EMBRAPA, Brazil
Roland Schafleitner (left 2010) T1* CIP
Zeba I Seraj T3 University of Dhaka
Rachid Serraj (left 2010) T2 IRRI
Trushar Shah T3, IBP ICRISAT
Julian Smith T3* Food and Environment Research Agency FERA, UK
Niaba Témé Sorghum Institut d'économie rurale (IER), Mali
Jean-Baptiste Tignegre T2* Institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso
Hari Upadhyaya T2 ICRISAT
Vincent Vadez T4, Legumes: groundnuts ICRISAT
Veerle van Damme T4 Consultant
Fred van Eeuwijk T3, IBP Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The Netherlands
Rajeev Varshney T3,* T4, Legumes: chickpeas ICRISAT/GCP
Francisco Vilaró T2* Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Uruguay (INIA), Uruguay
Bindiganavile S Vivek Maize CIMMYT
Jiankang Wang T2* CIMMYT/Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Robbie Waugh T1* Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI ), UK
Stanley Wood T4* IFPRI
Shawn Yates T3, IBP Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada