Principal Investigators (PIs)

Updated 14th October 2011 

Below are the PIs leading GCP projects in 2010.* denotes that (a) project led by PI under respective Theme or RI is on a no-cost extension into 2010.

Name

Research Initiative (RI)/Theme (T1, T2, etc)/IBP

Home institute

  • 1. Fouad Abbad Andaloussi

T2*

Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA-Morocco)

  • 2. Jorge Acosta-Gallegos

T2

Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias, (INIFAP), Mexico

  • 3. Alfredo Alves

Cassava

EMBRAPA Labex-USA,

USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, USA

  • 4. Elizabeth Arnaud

T3*

Bioversity

  • 5. Steve Beebe (replaced Matthew Blair)

T4, Legumes: beans

CIAT

  • 6. Matthew Blair (left 2010)

T4, Legumes: beans

CIAT

  • 7. Eduardo Blumwald

T1

University of California, Davis, USA

  • 8. Andrew Borrell

T1

Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia

  • 9. Masdiar Bustamam

T4

Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD)

  • 10. Alain Charcosset

T3, IBP

Agropolis-INRA

  • 11. Rogerio Chiulele

T4

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

  • 12. Julapark Chunwongse

T2*

National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand

  • 13. Ndiaga Cissé

T4*

Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA), Senegal

  • 14. Fran Clarke

T3, IBP

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  • 15. Douglas Cook

T1, Legumes

University of California, Davis, USA

  • 16. Eric Danquah

T4

West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana

  • 17. Guy Davenport (left 2010)

T3,* IBP

CIMMYT

  • 18. Carmen de Vicente (left 2010)

T4, Legumes, IBP

GCP

  • 19. Xavier Delannay

IBP

GCP

  • 20. Mark Dieters

T3, IBP

University of Queensland

  • 21. Issa Drabo

T4

Institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso

  • 22. Susanne Dreisigacker

T2

CIMMYT

  • 23. Chiedozie Egesi

Cassava

National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Nigeria

  • 24. Jeffrey Ehlers

T2, T4,* Legumes: cowpeas

University of California, Riverside, USA

  • 25. Morag Ferguson

Cassava

IITA

  • 26. Theresa Fulton

T4*

Institute for Genomic Diversity (IGD), Cornell University, USA

  • 27. Pooran Gaur

T1

ICRISAT

  • 28. James Gethi

T2

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)

  • 29. Alain Ghesquière

T2*

Agropolis-IRD, France

  • 30. Jean Christophe Glaszmann

T2, IBP*

GCP/Agropolis-CIRAD, France

  • 31. Humberto Gómez Paniagua (left 2010)

T4, IBP

GCP (Consultant)

  • 32. Diego González-de-León (left 2010)

T3, IBP

GCP

  • 33. Wolfgang Grüneberg

T2

CIP

  • 34. Samuel Gudu

RI-CG

Moi University/Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)

  • 35. Claudia Guimarães

RI-CG

EMBRAPA, Brazil

  • 36. Michael Halewood

T4

Bioversity International

  • 37. Tom Hash

T1,* T2

ICRISAT

  • 38. Chunlin He

T4, IBP

GCP

  • 39. Sigrid Heuer

TI, RI-CG

IRRI

  • 40. Glenn Hyman

T2,* T4*

CIAT

  • 41. Ruilian Jing

T2, Wheat

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

  • 42. Boonrat Jongdee

T3

Bureau of Rice Research and Development (BRRD), Rice Department, Thailand

  • 43. David Jordan

T1

Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia

  • 44. Shoshi Kikuchi

T1*

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan

  • 45. Steven J Knapp (left 2010)

T1*

University of Georgia (UGA), USA

  • 46. Leon Kochian

RI-CG

USDA-ARS/Cornell University, USA

  • 47. Robert Koebner

T3*

CropGen International

  • 48. Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy

T2*

ICRISAT

  • 49. Arvind Kumar

T2*

IRRI

  • 50. Mark Laing

T2, T4

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa

  • 51. Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw

T4

BIOTEC, Thailand

  • 52. Peter Langridge

T1

Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics Pty Ltd (ACPFG)

  • 53. Hei Leung

T2*

IRRI

  • 54. Chengzhi Liang

T3, IBP

IRRI

  • 55. Mathias Lorieux

T2

CIAT/Agropolis-IRD, France

  • 56. Jonathan Lynch

T2

Pennsylvania State University, USA

  • 57. Jurandir Magalhães

T2,* RI-CG

EMBRAPA, Brazil

  • 58. Marcos Malosetti

T3, IBP

Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The Netherlands

  • 59. Gregory May

T1

National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), USA

  • 60. Susan McCouch

RI-CG

USDA-ARS/Cornell University, USA

  • 61. Graham McLaren

T3, IBP

GCP

  • 62. Ken McNally (replaced Rachid Serraj)

T2

IRRI

  • 63. SC Misra

T2

Agharkar Research Institute, India

  • 64. Márta Molnár-Láng

T2

Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  • 65. Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop

Rice

AfricaRice

  • 66. George W Norton

T5

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

  • 67. Francis Ogbonnaya

T2

ICARDA

  • 68. Emmanuel Okogbenin

T4, Cassava

NRCRI

  • 69. Allen Oppong

T4*

Crops Research Institute (CRI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana

  • 70. Peggy Ozias-Akins (replaced S Knapp)

T1*

University of Georgia (UGA), USA

  • 71. Andrew H Paterson

T1

University of Georgia (UGA), USA

  • 72. Andy Pereira

T1*

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

  • 73. Chalermpol Phumichai

T2*

BIOTEC, Thailand

  • 74. Arllet Portugal

T3, IBP

CIMMYT/GCP

  • 75. Vinod Prabhu

Wheat

IARI-ICAR, India

  • 76. Lawrence Pratt

T4*

Centro de Inteligencia sobre Mercados Sostenibles (CIMS), INCAE Business School, Costa Rica

  • 77. Pablo Rabinowicz

T1

University of Maryland, USA

  • 78. Jean-François Rami

T5, Sorghum

Agropolis-CIRAD, France

  • 79. Mathieu Rouard

T3*

Bioversity

  • 80. NR Sackville Hamilton

T2*

IRRI

  • 81. MA Salam

T4

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)

  • 82. Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh

T4*

ABRII

  • 83. Hector Sanchez

IBP

CIMMYT

  • 84. Robert Schaffert

T2

EMBRAPA, Brazil

  • 85. Roland Schafleitner (left 2010)

T1*

CIP

  • 86. Zeba I Seraj

T3

University of Dhaka

  • 87. Rachid Serraj (left 2010)

T2

IRRI

  • 88. Trushar Shah

T3, IBP

ICRISAT

  • 89. Julian Smith

T3*

Food and Environment Research Agency  FERA, UK

  • 90. Niaba Témé

Sorghum

Institut d'économie rurale (IER), Mali

  • 91. Jean-Baptiste Tignegre

T2*

Institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso

  • 92. Hari Upadhyaya

T2

ICRISAT

  • 93. Vincent Vadez

T4, Legumes: groundnuts

ICRISAT

  • 94. Veerle van Damme

T4

Consultant

  • 95. Fred van Eeuwijk

T3, IBP

Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The Netherlands

  • 96. Rajeev Varshney

T3,* T4, Legumes: chickpeas

ICRISAT/GCP

  • 97. Francisco Vilaró

T2*

Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Uruguay (INIA), Uruguay

  • 98. Bindiganavile S Vivek

Maize

CIMMYT

  • 99. Jiankang Wang

T2*

CIMMYT/Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

  • 100.Robbie Waugh

T1*

Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI ), UK

  • 101.Stanley Wood

T4*

IFPRI

  • 102.Shawn Yates

T3, IBP

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada