Mohsen Mohammadi
Purdue University, USA
Biography
Mohsen Mohammadi has completed his PhD from University of Alberta and Postdoctoral studies from Canadian Government Laboratories in Ottawa, Canada and University of Minnesota in St Paul, USA. He leads Purdue’s Wheat Breeding and Genetics Program. He continues collaborating with the barley researchers in the US and tests barley adaptation and production to diversify Indiana’s cropping systems by bringing adapted barley varieties to the table. This will help family-based small businesses in grain industry and craft brewing using locally grown ingredients. Besides his research appointment, he teaches Genetics at undergraduate level and Quantitative Genetics at graduate level at Purdue Agronomy.