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Our Purpose

IGCAST - led by National Academy of Sciences member and President’s Distinguished Professor Luis Herrera Estrella - brings together a team committed to advancing plant resilience. Its members conduct research on how plants and their associated microbiomes survive and adapt to harsh environmental conditions.

Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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Gerardo Alejo-Jacuinde, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor in Functional Genomics

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Deanna Galvan

Lead Administrator

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Chien Van Ha, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

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Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella, Ph.D.

President’s Distinguished Professor of Plant Genomics

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Madhusudhana R. Janga, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Director Plant Transformation Facility

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Yinping Jiao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Crop Population Genomics

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Degao Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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Damar Lopez-Arredondo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Plant-Soil-Microbial Interactions

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Gunvant Patil, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Molecular Crop Improvement

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Son Tran, Ph.D.

Professor

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Chanda Trivedi, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

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Pankaj Trivedi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Plant & Soil Microbiome Analysis

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Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance

  • Address

    Texas Tech University, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, 1006 Canton Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409

  • Phone

    806.742.3417

  • Email

    IGCAST.info@ttu.edu
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